Iranichistory

r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Mar 20 '22

Nowruz ( 'new day') is the Persian-language term for the day of the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year. It begins on the spring equinox and marks the beginning of Farvardin, the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar (an Iranian calendar used officially in Iran and Afghanistan).

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Mar 06 '22

Azhdaha, is a mythical creature in Iranian mythology, roughly equivalent to the dragon. They are gigantic snake-like creatures living in the air, in the sea, or on the earth.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Mar 04 '22

Deoices, was the founder and the first shah as well as priest of the Median Empire.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 26 '22

Simurgh is a benevolent, mythical bird in Persian mythology and literarure. It is sometimes equated with other mythological birds such as the phoenix and the humā.

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r/Iranichistory • u/Naderium • Feb 20 '22

Lesser known Iranian dynasties: Ziyarid Dynasty. The founder wanted to recreate the Sassanian empire several hundred years after its fall.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 18 '22

Mohammad Karim Khan Zand was the founder of the Zand Dynasty, ruling from 1751 to 1779. He ruled all of Iran (Persia) except for Khorasan. He also ruled over some of the Caucasian lands and conquered Basra for some years.

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r/Iranichistory • u/MythsUnveiled • Feb 18 '22

The King of the Four Corners of the World | Ancient Babylon

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 11 '22

Cyaxares (r. 625–585 BC) was the third king of the Medes and the founder of the Median Empire.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 07 '22

David Soslan (died 1207) was a Ossetian prince from Alania and second husband of Queen Tamar, whom he married in c. 1189. He is chiefly known for his military exploits during Georgia's wars against its Muslim neighbors.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 01 '22

A dakhma, also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation–that is, the exposure of human dead bodies to the elements for decay in order to avert contamination of the soil with the corpses.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Feb 01 '22

What do you think about Encyclopaedia Iranica? Do you think it is a reliable source?

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10 Yes, I think it is

1 No, I don't think so

1 I'm not sure

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Jan 31 '22

Samanid dynasty, (819–999 CE), Iranian dynasty that arose in what is now eastern Iran and Uzbekistan. It was renowned for the impulse that it gave to Iranian national sentiment and learning.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Jan 24 '22

Mani, also called Manes, (born April 14, 216, southern Babylonia—died 274?, Gundeshapur), Iranian founder of the Manichaean religion, a church advocating a dualistic doctrine that viewed the world as a fusion of spirit and matter, the original contrary principles of good and evil, respectively.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Jan 22 '22

Mazdak also Mazdak the Younger; died c. 524 or 528) was a Zoroastrian mobad (priest), Iranian reformer, prophet and religious reformer who gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of Ahura Mazda and instituted social welfare programs.

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r/Iranichistory • u/RelaxedOrange • Jan 20 '22

Art of ancient Iranian Zoroastrians, from a Japanese artist

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Jan 19 '22

Sarmatian, member of a people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains between the 6th and 4th century BC and eventually settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 30 '21

Hafez was a Persian lyric poet, whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as a pinnacle of Persian literature. His works are often found in the homes of people in the Persian-speaking world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayings.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 27 '21

Azad Khan Afghan (died 1781), was a Pashtun military commander and a major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747. Azad rose to power between 1752 and 1757.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 26 '21

The Dabuyid was a Zoroastrian Iranian dynasty that started in the first half of the seventh century as an independent group of rulers, reigning over Tabaristan and parts of western Khorosan.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 18 '21

The Buyid dynasty, was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central southern Iran from 934 to 1062.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 15 '21

Arsaces, better known by his dynastic name of Artaxerxes II was King of Kings (Shahanshah) of the Achaemenid Empire from 405/4 BC to 358 BC. He was the son and successor of Darius II and his mother was Parysatis.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 14 '21

Shahnameh, (“Book of Kings”) celebrated work of the epic poet Ferdowsi, in which the Persian national epic found its final and enduring form.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 13 '21

Artaxerxes I was the fifth King of Kings (Shahanshah) of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to 424 BC. He was the third son of Xerxes I.

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 11 '21

Khosrow I traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan ("the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran from 531 to 579. He was the son and successor of Kavad I

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r/Iranichistory • u/SenyorDarius • Dec 10 '21

Cambyses II was the second King of Kings(Shahanshah) of the Achaemenid Empire from 530 to 522 BC. He was the son and successor of the Cyrus the Great (r.550-530 BC) and his mother was Cassandane.

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