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- Mumtāz Mahal (April 1593 - June 17, 1631) (Persian, Urdu: ممتاز ... nickname of Arjumand Banu Begum, an Indian-Persian Empress in the Mughal Dynasty ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ... to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- Persian and Arabic script is thought to have influenced Indian calligraphy ... ====History of Persian Calligraphy==== The history of calligraphy in ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- are also remembered as great patrons of Persian culture, art, literature ... mainland Persia, where they adopted the Persian culture and language in ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Ilkhanids were rapidly to adopt the Persian language and have their origins ... by 1040 the Seljuks had taken over their Persian domains and a century later ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- In his advance against the Persian king, Cyrus used Greek mercenaries ... read by beginning students of the Greek language. His Hellenica is a chief ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- locations. Nabonidus surrendered to the Persian forces in 539 B.C.E. and ... Assyrian origin. However Nabonidus' Persian successor, Cyrus the Great ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- In 298, the Roman Emperor Diocletian had signed a treaty with his ... quickly repaired the walls while the Persian elephant cavalry became ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty ... E. Yarshater, "Language of Azerbaijan, vii., Persian language ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Mani (216-276 C.E.), who resided in the Persian Empire. According to biographical ... many high-ranking political figures in the Persian Empire. With the aid of ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- The Huma, also known as the "bird of paradise," is a Persian ... The word huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...8 KB (1,172 words) - 03:55, 27 February 2023
- Omar Khayyám (Persian عمر خیام; May 18, 1048 – December ... memorable not only for the beauty of its language and the concise gracefulness ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش ... with the words the Great (Vazraka in Old Persian, Bozorg in modern Persian ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- In the tenth century, the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abul ... Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) combined trigonometry ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- zarqun, meaning vermilion, or perhaps from the Persian zargun, meaning golden-colored. These words are corrupted into "jargoon," a term applied ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد ... that al-Farabi's father was of Persian descent. Ibn al-Nadim, among ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- given refuge. Furthermore, the Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... * They allowed the transfer of the school of Edessa to the Persian ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- of Mopsuestia in high esteem. The Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... who traveled and preached throughout the Persian Empire and Central and East ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources considering ... although the empire also administered in Persian and Uyghur. ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Under the Persian rule, a system of centralized administration with ... By about 380 B.C.E., Persian hold on the region weakened. Many small ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- the flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip actually ... parsley got their very names because of their Persian origins. ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- "Hindooism") into the English language in 1816. For many years ... for worship (insisting on Sanksrit, Persian or English). He may have ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Count Ivan Paskevich during a Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), and was ... line of the comedy has become part of the language, and proverbs from Griboyedov ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- architecture. The development of Dakhani language stands out as an important ... on four sides located in the middle of a Persian four-square garden. The ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- the southern shore of Kuwait Bay off the Persian Gulf. Kuwait City is the ... Located at the heart of the country on the shore of the Persian Gulf ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- with caraway (Carum carvi), also called Persian cumin, which produces similar ... many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- astrologer-priests who once lived in the Persian Empire. Today, the word ... , which is a derivative from Old Persian maguš. The term is a specific ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves ... Sir William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nader Shah ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- The best-known member of the genus is the Persian walnut (Juglans ... but has softer wood than the black and Persian walnuts. The seed is of ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Arabic buraq, which comes from either the Persian burah ... or the Middle Persian burak. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/B0399900 ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- means "Seed of Babylon" in that language. It could also related to ... describes the young Zerubbabel as one of the wisest men in the Persian ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- * زردچوبه (zardchubeh) in Persian. * ‘Ōlena in Hawaiian * Gelbwurz (literal: Yellow Root) or Kurkuma in German. * Gurkemeje in Danish. ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- as Rumi, was a mystical thirteenth century Persian Sufi poet, jurist, and theologian ... and ethnic borders. Speakers of the Persian language in Iran, Afghanistan ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer ... has also been known as the Khazar Sea. In Persian antiquity, as well as in ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Samarkand derives its name from the Old Persian asmara, "stone ... conquered it in 329 B.C.E. Although a Persian-speaking region, it was ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- nobility. Here he was taught Latin, English, and Persian, studied mathematics and zoology, and was able to considerably widen his musical experience. ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- are mainly Tajiks, and Tajik is the main language. With the rest of Tajikistan ... The name Dushanbe is derived from the Persian word for "Monday ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- structure of its kind: the tomb of the Persian King Mausollos, built in ... Turkey) for Mausollus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- chamber when an audience was given to the Persian herald. In return for his ... The Greek language is particularly well-suited to this metrical style ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- The name sitar comes from the Persian language سیتار sehtar; سیہ seh meaning three and تار tar means string. A similar instrument ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- as the only way to discourage or resist Persian and Ottoman aggression, ... thereafter put an end to Russia’s Persian Expedition of 1796, as her ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- approximately 30° north latitude in the Persian Gulf and, thus, has asymmetric ... Oman, Laccadive Sea, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- Qatar has been inhabited for millennia, and was part of the Persian ... from Abu Dhabi, and used as a port for Persian Gulf pirates, was named ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- of poems and travelogues in Urdu language. == Personal life == ... Khan spoke fluent English, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages. ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- is believed to derive either from the Persian Ashk-ābād meaning "the ... Armenians, and Azeris. The Türkmen language, a member of the East Oghuz ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language, which has been interpreted ... *Avestan zaray/Modern Persian zærd ("yellow" or "golden ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Abu Bakr Al Razi (popularly known as Rhazes), a Persian physician and philosopher who described certain physiological parameters when he went to establish ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- The word pistachio is a Persian loanword, coming into English through Italian, and is a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Peste'. ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- to mastering English—adding this language to the Arabic, French, Persian ... On the occasion of some Persian believers asking him about a successor ...19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 2023
- stones, ship caulking, and waterproofing. The Persian word for asphalt is mumiya, which may be related to the English word mummy. Asphalt was also used ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- in Indian literature. Written in Sanskrit language and Hale Kannada script ... of Persia Khosrau II, his reception of the Persian ambassador depicted in one ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 23:43, 2 December 2022
- The word bazaar derives from the Persian word bāzār, the etymology of which goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char (بهاچار) meaning ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... of Islamic mysticism in universal language, inviting one to live for ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- under Ezra, acting as the agent of the new Persian king Artaxerxes. Ezra's ... foundation, and as the agent of a new Persian king, Artaxeres. He renews ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... it from Sanskrit into the middle Persian language of Pahlavi, transliterated ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- ended. He was captured and executed by the Persian King. In fact, he had made ... and the father heading East to face the Persian threat. ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ... born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. In Persian, Razi means "from the ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton ... 138: Tea,] The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Max Planck ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- where the tree and the fruit are known by the Persian-derived names Toot (mulberry) or Shahtoot (King's or "Superior" mulberry). Jams ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Naidu learned to speak Urdu, Telugu, English, Persian and Bengali. Her favorite poet was P.B. Shelley. She attained national fame for entering ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- frontier with Al-Shariqah. In the north is the Persian Gulf. ... The emirate has oil rich fields, both onshore and in the Persian Gulf ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Klaus Koch. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. (Philidelphia: ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- was originally named Bagh-e-Badshahi (Persian: Garden of the Master Kings ... of Pakistan began there. The Bengali Language Movement started there in ...25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
- Samovar, pronounced as samāvar in Persian was originally imported from Russia. Iranian craftsmen used Persian art and Kurdish art to produce ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... . A vast majority of the populations of Persian Gulf countries (including ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- point between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf (known by Arabs as ... trade location on the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to further its economic ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- the Arsacids in Parthia and began the new Persian Sassanid dynasty. The Sassanids ... less suspect" to their powerful Persian neighbors. ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai.” Even ... During the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- means "quatrains" in the Persian language. Singular: ruba'i ... Muzaffar Alam, The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Wudu (Arabic: الوضوء al-wuḍū, Persian:آبدست ābdast, Turkish: abdest, Urdu: وضو wazū) is the Islamic act of washing parts of ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded ... (collections of poems) in Azerbaijani, Persian, and possibly Arabic. His ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- Traveling by a Persian boat out of Guangzhou( 廣州), he arrived in Srivijaya (today's Palembang of Sumatra) after 22 days, where he spent ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- parts of Islamic realm. In the late ninth century, Persian astronomer al-Farghani wrote extensively on the motion of celestial bodies. His work was translated ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the ... Akbar, gave him the name Khurram (Persian for 'joyful') ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- after it was written, it was translated into Persian. Bhaskaracharya ... In one of these stories, found in a Persian translation of Lilavati ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 16:27, 21 January 2022
- he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ... " from the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf respectively. ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- Báb began his most important work, the Persian Bayán, which he never finished ... The Báb abrogated traditional Islamic law and, in the Persian Bayán ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- to Ferishta, Mahmoud's mother was a Persian noble from Zabulistan; ... for the promotion and preference of Persian language instead of Turkish and ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- one millennium B.C.E., the equally ancient Persian tradition of Musiqi-e assil ... melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through ...31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- Euphrates. Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location ... that Eden was located somewhere near the Persian Gulf. This location was ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- of the Zand dynasty, and had reasserted Persian sovereignty over the former ... with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March ... Shah Suri, and regained them, only with Persian aid, ten years later. Humayun ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- to recite to him the great epic poems of Persian history. He held French ... "The destiny of this family of high Persian nobility, descended from ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- than the older atashkada, a Classical Persian language term that together with ... Avesta proper, nor is there any old Persian language word for one. Moreover ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- (Persian) (the Arm), * sux-Latn|Gula (Euphratean) * Ied Algeuze (Orion's Hand) * cop-Latn|Klaria (Coptic) (an Armlet) * Yedelgeuse ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- of 244, the Persians counter-attacked. Persian sources claim that a battle ... The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian Wars. London, UK: Routledge ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- to frighten the enemy or to celebrate. The Persian word is sanj or senj ( ... ), but the Shahnameh does not claim these to be Persian in origin ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... title Agha with the Turkic, Mongolian and Persian/Pashto polyvalent title ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- In the Persian period (538-332 B.C.E.), Byblos was the fourth of four ... and the town grew rapidly. Although a Persian colony is known to have ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- Geographically, the Arab world is defined as extending from the Persian ... speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- coast are descended from Arab and Persian Muslim traders who settled ... eastward exodus, the Hui used the Arab, Persian and Han languages. Gradually ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- grave of humanity. However, with the influence of Persian thought and the passing of time, the notion of "hell" crept into Jewish tradition ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- side from the Irtish and the Volga to the Persian Gulf, and on the other from ... called Sharaf ud-Din, author of the Persian Zafarnāma (Persian ظفرنامه ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- resulted in a new word, assassin, in European language The name "assassin ... that drug [hashish] in connection with the Persian Assassins--especially in ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- some 30,000 in each case, while the Persian troops at al-Qadisiyah numbered ... Farisi and az-Zajjaj. All of whom were of Persian descent. They were brought ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... #039;s history, invaders included the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- society for the study of poetic language. Later he became one of the ... YAZyka—Society for the Study of Poetic Language), OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) ( ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- on the dating of Ecclesiastes, the language and style of the text certainly ... it borrows several terms from the Persian language, and incorporates vocabulary ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as ... He is known as Iqbal-e-Lahori (Persian: اقبال لاهوری ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- According to the nineteenth-century language scholar, Heinrich Hubschmann ... In the sixteenth century, control of Nakhichevan passed to the Persian ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- Since then, for over 2700 years, the Persian Jews have lived in the territories ... returned to Judea during the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.E ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language ... == Influence on Persian language == [[File:Firdawsi - Folio from a ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- 鄂爾渾文字) to record the Old Turkic language. == Etymology == ... and "blue" in the Köktürk language, and a similar sounding ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- Little mention is made of the Ammonites through the Persian and early ... with other considerations, that their language was Semitic, closely related ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Red Sea was of secondary importance to the Persian Gulf and overland connections ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Braj, Old Punjabi, Khariboli, Sanskrit and Persian. Guru Gobind Singh ... assign high degree of sanctity to Gurmukh language script. ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Dubai is situated on the Persian Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates ... migration of people to other parts of the Persian Gulf. ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. ... began, with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- *Persian leopard or Iranian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), Southwest ... , Arabian Peninsula; Often included in the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- East, grenadine was widely used in many Persian foods; it can still be found ... means pomegranate (anar) seeds (dana) in Persian). It is used as a spice ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Catalan albergínia, from Arabic al-badinjan, from Persian badin-gan, from Sanskrit vatin-ganah.). In Indian and South African English, the fruit is ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- Chaldean, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Amharic (Singh ... Young was interested in the evolution of language groups, and divided ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- 758 C.E. His father was Hani, a Syrian or Persian who had served in the army ... Persian imagery corresponding to the Persian language used in this period ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- Alexander is known in Middle Persian literature as Alexander the Cursed ... #039;s death), Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- these new departments. The Barmakids, of Persian extraction, had originally ... Drawing on Persian notions of the king as God's "shadow ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- The name boron can be traced to the Arabic buraq, Persian burah, and Turkish bor, which are words for borax. In early Egypt, the process of mummification ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- the Qila, which had been built in Afghan-Persian style, the balcony presents ... of the fort. The inscription, in Persian, translates as follows: ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- and wide circulation of the Uzbek language, as well as on the development ... Bukhara entered history in 500 B.C.E. as vassal state in the Persian ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- of Europe, because of the accessibility, language, knowledge and methods that ... practicing and condemning necromancy. The language, execution and format of ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- and oral texts composed in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form ... business was conducted in the Persian language, rather than in Turkish ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- of Greece and incorporate it into the Persian Empire, to secure the weakest ... fled to Sardis to the court of the nearest Persian satrap, Artaphernes, and ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- music is considered to have absorbed Persian and Turkic features, introduced ... music is considered to have absorbed Persian and Turkic features, introduced ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- enjoy a form of bagel known as girdeh nan (from Persian, meaning round bread) , which is one of several types of nan, the bread eaten in Xinjiang.Thomas ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Zirconium (Arabic zarkûn, from Persian zargûn زرگون, meaning "gold like") was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth ...16 KB (2,114 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- The name Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates ... from Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory ... The movement quickly spread across the Persian Empire and received ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- probably hark back to the origins of language and the subcontinent's ... va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a [[Persian language|Persian]] translation ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- The language of the Upanishads is Sanskrit, the oldest among them ... and translate them from Sanskrit into Persian, a task that was completed ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- work on a biography. He learned Arabic and Persian. During the First War of ... Muir tried but failed to restore Persian as an official medium of ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات, Georgian: ... to appear in the world after the Deluge. A Persian legend refers to the Ararat ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... was further strengthened by various Persian immigrant settlers. The ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- Like the other Arab emirates on the Persian Gulf—Kuwait, Bahrain ... when the British sought out Qatar and the Persian Gulf as an intermediary ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- century c.e., but they were expelled by a Persian army that remained in power ... Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- centers of learning to study the Greek language and bring back the masterpieces ... his converts because the Greek, Persian, and Syriac scripts then ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Khan and his brother were freed by the new Persian ruler. The Ghilzai were ... Ahmad Shah wrote a collection of odes in his native Pashto language ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Judah, as the Lord’s chosen leader. The language here is not as finely wrought ... tradition of his prophetic forebears in language, idiom, and point of view ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- , the Armenian Shabat (Շաբաթ), the Persian shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota" (суббота ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... | language = English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- of relgion, and the philosophy of language as well as works on aesthetics ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- in 324, Alexander had him marry the Persian princess Artakama. Ptolemy ... the king. Greek, not Egyptian, was the official language. ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- The word caviar is ultimately derived from Persian khavyar, from khaya meaning "egg." The word first appeared in English print in 1591 ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- The name "rose" originates from Persian vrda, via Greek ... in Persia (the word rose itself is from Persian), then spread through Arabia ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- "Baghdad" is that it is a Middle Persian compound of Bag "god ... to Baghdad's distance from the marshy Persian Gulf, dust storms from the ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Originating in tenth century Persian, a ghazal is a poetic form consisting ... Bhajans are often simple songs in lyrical language expressing emotions of love ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer ... a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian ... The Bengali language, with its long and rich literary tradition, serves ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- Muraqaba (Persian: Tamarkoz) is the word used by many Sufis when referring ... Sufism has produced a large body of poetry in Arabic, Turkish, Persian ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- nine and ten, he picked up Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian, while mastering Italian and French. Two years later, he wrote a Syriac grammar for publication ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- religions and culture and quickly learned Persian. He was also involved in ... of Indian politics and to read works in Persian. Meanwhile, due to the Napoleonic ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- his hands in the "lower sea" (Persian Gulf), to show that he had ... became the lingua franca, the official language, of inscriptions in all ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- writings were first translated to the Syriac language by Nestorian monks in the university of Gundishapur, Persia. Muslim scholars primarily in Baghdad ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ... Shaped roughly like a triangle, Kuwait borders the Persian Gulf to ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- a number of Sanskrit scientific works into Persian; and the latter produced ... was a poet who composed verse in the Persian language. Akbar had enormous ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod]] Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- founded by Akbar), and "-ābād" being Persian for "place of." The ancient name of the city is Prayāga (Sanskrit for "place ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does not usually include ... A slow resurgence of the Persian language and a re-location of the ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- city is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port ... According to a local Guangzhou government report, Arab and Persian ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... French, Italian, Dutch, Yiddish, Latin, Persian, and Arabic. He wrote two ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- However, the writing style and language employed have left scholars ... of the learned. A manuscript in Persian mentions that his first ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 00:15, 5 March 2024
- Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: ... The United Arab Emirates borders the Gulf of Oman and the Persian ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- interest in Oriental arts, and particularly Persian carpets, and even attempted to imitate their texture in his paintings. In 1890, Vrubel moved ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- of western Pakistan. Their Pashto language and the practice of Pashtunwali ... living on the eastern frontier of the Persian Satrapy Arachosia as early ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Retrieved ... marine zoology, meteorology, as a Persian scholar translated Classics ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian Gulf and is the smallest ... or to the south and north waters of the Persian Gulf, separating it from ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Almond is called Lawz in Arabic, Baadaam in Persian, Urdu and Hindi. ... in both Ayurveda and Unani Tibb (the Greco-Persian System of Medicine). It ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- reign of Artaxerxes I (465-424 B.C.E.), a Persian monarch who is referenced ... Nehemiah lived during the period when Judah was a province of the ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- as much, if not more, to do with culture, language, and politics as they do ... This church, developed within the Persian Empire, at the east of the ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- from foreign sources, likely from the Persian asparag, meaning "sprout ... grass," thus showing convergent language evolution. ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- century. Many of them speak the Tatar language, a member of the Turkic ... European languages from the Turkish and Persian Tātār. From the beginning ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- was taken in 500-499 B.C.E. by the Persian Empire's military for ... land. The Incas did not have any written language but recorded information ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- ) The Arabic word was itself borrowed from the Persian word mūmiya, meaning "bitumen"; this is also related to another Persian word, mūm ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- non-academic understanding of what "Persian" means, which, in a ... *Perses (Persian) *Heliodromus (sun-courier) *Pater (father) ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- existed under the influence of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty. ... Following the Roman-Persian Wars Khosrow I of the Persian Sassanian ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- part of Thessaly to rule), and the legendary Persian warrior-princess Rhodogune (this doctrine of equal virtues in men and women is also found in ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- While this helped integrate Arab and Persian cultures, it alienated many ... troubles by turning on the Barmakids, the Persian family that had supplied ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- that the name Metatron might be taken from the Persian name Mithras. He lays out a number of parallels between Mithras and Metatron based on their ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- After the Persian wars, Delos became the meeting-ground for the Delian League, founded in 478 B.C.E. The congresses were held in its temple, ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- Under the charge of Maulvi Hamiduddin, Sir Syed was trained in Persian ... adoption of Hindi as a second official language of the United Provinces ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- While Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and other Persian and Muslim philosophers ... Besides his Urdu and Persian poetical work, The Reconstruction of ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- with Zeus Ammon in his account of the Persian War. Zeus Ammon was especially ... * Wren, Brian. What Language Shall I Borrow? God-talk in Worship: ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with Ancient ... believed they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian. However ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- when Cambyses conquered Egypt. In the Persian Empire, Cyprus formed part ... in order to liberate Cyprus from Persian rule, but these efforts ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- and unforeseen consequences—the Persian invasion by Xerxes I led ... all over Asia; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it "drank ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- dome of the palace presents a beautiful example of Persian architecture. Two Persian inscriptions record the visits of Akbar and Jehangir to the palace ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- has been influenced by its Turkic peoples, Persian, Islamic, and Central Asian ... The South Caucasus was eventually conquered by the first Persian Achaemenid ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- The Corpus was in Latin, the traditional language of the Roman Empire, but ... Like many of his predecessors in the Roman-Persian Wars, Justinian ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- majority of Ashkenazi Jewry, is a Jewish language which developed from the ... In Mesopotamia and in Persian lands free of Roman imperial domination ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- with the Iranian people, and speak the Tajik language. After independence ... valley. The name is derived from the Persian word for "Monday" ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- witnessed the highest achievement of Persian civilization, constituting ... as well as a monumental inscription in Persian and Greek in the vicinity ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- is "thumus" in the Greek language, and may be the inspiration ... in Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, and Persian cuisines, and in those derived ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- Company, who was proficient in Bengali, and Persian languages. ... Ghulam Husain Salim, [http://persian.packhum.org/persian/ Riyazu-s ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... devastating wars between the Byzantine and Persian Empires of the early seventh ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Turkey, marking the grave of King Mausollos, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. One of ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Nazrul studied Bengali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian literature and classical ... Chandra Chattopadhyay, as well as the Persian poet Hafiz. He learned Persian ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- The name 'Sai Baba' is a combination of Persian and Indian ... ! Year !! Film !! Title role !! Director !! Language !! Notes ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- the Turkic word dağ meaning mountain and Persian suffix stan, meaning "land ... Iberia and Armenia was conquered by the Persian Sassanid Empire (226-651 ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Between CE 813 and 833, Persian mathematician Al-Khawarizmi (Abu Ja ... quot; system—that is, a programming language that has a computational ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- - and professed a Persian genealogy.[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article ... syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- In April 1996, the BBC World Service Saudi-based Arabic language TV ... views regarding the governments of many Persian Gulf states, including Saudi ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- quot;), the music industry was dominated by Persian classical singers. Vigan combined Persian melodies and Persian lyrics with Guitar. Compared by ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- The kingdom of Aksum had its own written language called Ge'ez ... itself with the Byzantium Empire against the Persian Empire. ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- He also invented the Lisp programming language. Joseph Weizenbaum built ... Colmerauer developed the Prolog computer language. Ted Shortliffe demonstrated ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- science. After a peace treaty between the Persian and the Byzantine empire ... body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- Greek and Latin, as well as Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. In 1844 Müller ... a time when scholars had started to see language development in relation ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat HaMachpela, Trans. "Cave of the Double Tombs"), called by Muslims ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Bible was translated into the Georgian language in the fifth century. ... English Georgia derives from the modern Persian word for the Georgians, ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- of these states became a part of Persian Achaemenid Dynasty in the ... eighth century C.E. A century later, the Persian Samanid dynasty established ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- quot; Hindi, -ānā = "of the" Persian). Most performers and scholars recognize two styles of gharana: Dilli Baj and Purbi Baj. Dilli ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- the Great's and his Macedonian and Persian armies. By 316 B.C.E. the ... rivaled the splendors of contemporaneous Persian sites such as Susa and Ecbatana ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- in Seoul (서울) in the Modern Korean language. Today, "Seoul" ... "Silla-people") in the language of the Yamato Japanese and ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- his third voyage, sailing to Hormuz on the Persian Gulf. On his return he touched ... southward down the Arabian coast, the Persian Gulf and Arabia, visiting ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. In 1562, he conquered ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- French rule in the region also solidified language throughout and instituted ... and domestic servants in the Arabian and Persian gulfs. ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- from Latin into English, Arabic, Persian and Chinese by Edward Pococke for use in missionary work in the East and remained in print until the ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- There are English language-guided tours through many of the palace ... of Millions, decorated with Indian and Persian miniatures—a truly grand ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- refers to literature written in the Greek language from the earliest texts ... ancient legends. The stories are told in language that is simple, direct, ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent ... masterpieces written in the Old Russian language (usually referred to as ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- The official language is Arabic. English is used widely in commerce and government and among educated people. Arabic and English must be taught ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians were defeated at the hands of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great. In 333 B.C.E., Alexander ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- by ethnic groups using a click-tongue language similar to that of southern ... one being Kibaha, a settlement of Persian origin that held ascendancy ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- of Iran, called Fars or Pars in the Persian language. This region was the ... efficiency was increased. The Old Persian language appears in royal inscriptions ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- any foreigner of a different culture and language background. While it did ... " The word comes from the Greek language, and was used to connote ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian, meaning "land ... === Persian and Macedonian conquests=== [[Image:AlexandreLouvre.jpg ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish language: Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye; ... Porte or the Porte, from the French language translation of the Ottoman ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984 (original 1982). ISBN 0800617568. ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- alloy. The word arsenic can be traced back to the Persian word زرنيخ zarnikh (for yellow orpiment), which was adapted in Greek as arsenikon. ...21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
- has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... ==The Persian Wars== In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey), ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... The Persian philosopher Avicenna (980-1032 C.E.) synthesized the theories ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- part of the region's traditional music. In Persian and Azeri classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a yodeling technique that oscillates ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- honored throughout the Babylonian and later Persian empires for several more centuries as a member of the great, if far away, triad of deities together ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- measuring 58 km (36 mi) on the northern Persian Gulf. The capital city, ... narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- 1858 – October 1, 1898) was a Gujarati-language writer, philosopher, and ... of ghazals, a form of ode, in the style of Persian Sufis. Despite flaws of ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- 'The Regions of the World' A Persian Geography] Aris & Phillips ... Mughal rulers and Sikh insurrectionists. Persian military leader Nadir Shah ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- The name "Pakistan" in the Urdu and Persian languages means ... Nearly all of ancient Pakistan was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- During Ashurbanipal's first years the Persian province of Elam was still in peace, as it had been under his father. Around 664, however ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. The latitude is 30° ... such as an invasion by the neo-Persian power under the Sassanid ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- throughout the region stretching from the Persian Gulf to North Africa's ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- and that the style and language found in Obadiah is very similar to ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- September 23, 480 B.C.E.; the day of the Persian War's greatest naval ... the king truly has broken his vows. The language used by Heracles and Admetus ...22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- #039;s manifestation, abstracting him in language that human beings can comprehend ... varied; its diversity of color, gender, language, culture and style are seen ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term "breath ... In this case, the “prince of the Persian kingdom” was referring ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Tripitaka scriptures, and in some English-language fiction he is addressed ... Samarkand. In Samarkand, which was under Persian influence, the party came ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- the sixteenth century from the French language, either from the word for ... I Shah Husein Mosque of Isfahan. The Persian style and use of turquoise ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 00:26, 3 May 2023
- Some scholars have suggested that the eleventh century Persian story ... of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- 1920s, Abul A’la knew enough Arabic, Persian and English, besides his ... translated into English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, French, German, Swahili ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- day Pakistan), including Taxila, to the Persian Achaemenid Empire. ... to Greek influences in this area. The language used in the area is bilingual ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- on the face of it, adapted from Ahasuerus, the Persian king in Esther, who is not a Jew, and whose very name among medieval Jews was an exemplum of a fool. ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- to travel to India to learn the wisdom of the Persian magi and the Indian Brahmins. He also went to Egypt to study the ways of the Gymnoi ("Naked ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- quot;) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic ... as a fundamental creative act using language.Dylan Thomas, Quite Early ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- and practice in the Arabic, Turkish and Persian-speaking worlds. In recent ... the polysemous ambiguity of the Arabic language to great effect. The characteristic ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- old. Travelers and merchants from the Persian Gulf and Western India have ... English is the official, primary language of commerce, administration ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- the Qur'an and Islamic texts in Arabic and Persian, but little else. Several national movements have emerged from this sector of the Muslim community ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- with distinctive features, and a language derived in part from Arabic ... The town of Kidichi features the hammam (Persian baths), built by ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- sealions-usat_x.htm Sea lions called to duty in Persian Gulf]. USA Today February 16, 2003. Retrieved July 3, 2008. * Lento, G.M., R.E. Hickson ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- nerge (traditional hunts), as reported by Persian historian Juvayni (1226 ... * The language Chagatai, widely spoken among a group of Turks, is ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom ... hypothetical reconstruction of the spoken language, have argued that it would ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- seems to underestimate the importance of Persian intervention. However, Thucydides ... as the Athenian hero of the Second Persian War), Pericles, Brasidas ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- three years as courtiers, learning the language, literature, and customs ... has inadvertently placed the historical Persian King Darius I at an earlier ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- cultures of Asia Minor such as the ancient Persian Empire, were more often ... From there it worked its way to the Latin language, where it was called Draconis ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- domain westward, Trisong Detsen sacked a Persian religious establishment ... and also a stone lion showing traces of Persian influence. ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete ... ha-homa" ("speak not the Judean language in the ears of [or: which ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms ... of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (Gordon ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ... The entire area was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire during ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- botany. He possessed a natural gift for language, teaching himself Latin. ... such as difficulty learning the language or danger to life. Finally ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- Egyptian eschatology. Likewise, the early Persian and Hebrew conception of ... Zarathustra, the original name from old Persian), the seventh century B ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- Cyrus II (the Great), the founder and ruler of the Persian Empire, and inscribed in Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform on a clay cylinder. It was discovered ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... were written in Classical Chinese, the language spoken during the Spring ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- Tash, in the Turkic language, means "stone," while kand ... Under the Persian Samanid dynasty (819–999), the city came to be ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 B.C.E. Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- the dialect of Bukhara), the name used by Persian writers to refer to a sixth ... hunter gatherers, with a unique language consisting of click consonants. ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- of the Nativity on seeing the magi depicted in Persian clothing in one of the mosaics. ===Arab rule and the Crusades=== In 637, shortly after ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), styled ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- rely on clear skies in navigating the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean ... to an iron fish-like compass in a Persian talebook from 1232. ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- route, reached its golden age, whereby Persian and Sogdian merchants benefited ... maritime influence was extended to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, into Persia ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- The Henotikon was carefully worded to avoid language which offended the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, which had affirmed "two natures ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- is the area from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf and includes Kuwait ... and the Tigris unite and empty into the Persian Gulf. The arid environment ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- of the Hui ethnic group, with pronounced Arab and Persian features, may have enhanced the pervasive impact of Islam upon Ningxia culture and history ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- Due to developments in the Egyptian language over the 3000 years that ... that after Egypt's conquest by the Persian ruler Cambyses II, Set also ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- Singing in Urdu and his native Punjabi, as well as Persian, and blending ... Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party (two Urdu-language songs: "A Hamd" ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 01:20, 17 November 2022
- the Orient" were probably Magi from the Persian Empire or Arabia which are east relative to Israel. Westerners' location of "The Orient ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- city and expand the empire, just as the Persian Wars had. In his speech ... warning of this order and defected to the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, who ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- as late as the 16th century: the Crimean Gothic language. ... The two nations, differing in manners, language and religion, lived side ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- of Tocharians (or Tokharians), whose language was Indo-European. It is ... Uyghurs of Hunan do not speak the Uyghur language, instead, they speak Chinese ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- in 612 B.C.E. by the Medes, an ancient Persian race. A great fire may have ravaged the library which caused the clay cuneiform tablets to become ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- entertainment, even though in the French language the term has no such connotation ... in small black-and-white panels that evoke Persian miniatures, about a young ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- leading to the birth of the Romanian language. The conquered half (southern ... in 116. He continued southward to the Persian Gulf, where he declared ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- the hill giving the gateway additional height. A Persian inscription on eastern archway of the Buland Darwaza records Akbar's conquest over Deccan ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create images ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- as one of the greatest poets in this language of his day, some say he ... already impoverished (ever since the 1739 Persian sack of Delhi under Nader ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- name of the country in the Burmese language, Myanmar, did not change ... Burmese, the language of the Bamar and official language of Myanmar ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- of the Pentateuch no earlier than the Persian period. John Joseph Collins, [http://books.google.com/books?id=9kxLOH5XaAMC&pg=PA33&ots ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- the lower house of parliament; the Berber language is an official state language ... Assahra Al Maghribia, and one French-language daily newspaper, Le Matin ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- cult of savior (Saosyant) or the Persian-Greek Messiah Mithras Invictus, introduced into India by some of the same foreign groups blamed for ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Santhali Language; languages from Nepal like ... have actually been employed for this language. This has led to the establishment ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- riding camels. From a fifteenth-century Persian manuscript.]] ... The Book Foundation; Bilingual ed. 2003, Language: English, ISBN 1904510000 ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- Parthian, Byzantine and Arab or Ottoman, Persian, and Russian. Various societies ... Iberia and Armenia, was conquered by the Persian Sassanid Empire (226-651). ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- htm Pazyryk Carpet.] House of Persian Rugs. Retrieved April 30, 2007. Recovered Ancient Egyptian furniture includes a third millennium B.C.E ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- Varthema and Caesar Fredericci in 1567, Persian Abdur Razzak in 1440, Barani ... at Pegu and Tanasserim.From the notes of Persian Abdur Razzak. Writings of ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- principal religion is Islam, and its main language is Arabic. ... Palestine, Lebanon and others from the Persian Gulf region. ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- outside of the sub-caste, one’s own language, or province as long as ... Married in Japan.] About: Japanese Language. Retrieved February 22, 2017. ...25 KB (3,836 words) - 02:27, 9 January 2023
- Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... or Hayk (Հայկ) with the Persian language suffix "-stan" ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Pius, he said: "If you see a Persian horse tied in Palestine, then (you may) hope for the arrival of the Messiah." (Cant. R. viii. ...16 KB (2,585 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2023
- Mediterranean cultures, such as the Persian Empire, where a person was ... to Alexander's adoption of the Persian ceremony of royal adoration. ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- on the background of people, and their language and ethnicity, it often ... by replacing Latin with Greek as its language of government. However, ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- *Baysunqur, Shahnameh. Persian illuminated manuscript. Sandy Hook, CT: Shorewood Fine Art Reproductions, 1990. *Bland, David. A History of Book ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- from the word barbacoa found in the language of the Taíno people of ... recorded use of the word in the English language in 1697 by the British buccaneer ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- with the human using non-spoken language or body language such as ... seen in the difference in body and vocal language it uses with the human, ...36 KB (5,931 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2023
- first recorded use of judicial hanging is in the Persian Empire approximately 2,500 years ago.Richard Clark[http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- digit to come into use. In the English language, zero may also be called ... * Persian: Sefr * Polish: cyfra, digit; szyfrować, to encrypt; zero, zero ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- the city and made it the capital of the Persian province of Syria. ... of the Silk Road, gave the English language "damask." ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- and Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During these events ... was the case in the days leading up to the Persian Gulf War, Powell was initially ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- between 1586 and 1592. Mughal is the Persian word for Mongol and was ... The Dogras were an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, spoke their own language ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- The word magic derives from Magus (Old Persian maguš), one of the ... quot; were a class of priests, the Persian Magi of Zoroastrianism, ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Malayalis and Marwaris bring their native language and culture to the city ... of rare original manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Turkish ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- the "reasoners"): the classical Persian rabbis (500–600) * The Geonim (literally the "prides" or "geniuses"): ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- from the ninth century, it is mentioned by the Persian scholar and chronicler of India, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī. ===Aryabhatiya=== ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- included study of Punjabi, Braj, Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic languages, and ... #039;s offer, and wrote a long letter in Persian, titled Zafarnamah ("the ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Archaeological ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- when, as a result of the increasing Persian influence (and as a result ... when, as a result of the increasing Persian influence (and as a result ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- the tributaries of the Euphrates. Ancient Persian tablets indicate the medicinal ... conflicts including World War II and the Persian Gulf Wars of the late twentieth ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ... 31 Biblegateway.com] Over 20 English language editions of the Bible (including ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- was the wife and sister of the Greek/Persian King Mausolus from the name of whose tomb we get the word mausoleum. Artemisia, who ruled for three ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- also eighteenth century tapestries and fine Persian carpets, including the sixteenth century Ardabil carpet from Tabriz. Getty initially kept ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- by its proponents to be a symbolic language, a form of art, a form of ... **Persian-Arabic astrology **Medieval & Renaissance horoscopic astrology ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- spelling became the most popular in the English language. ... *Pope, Arthur Upham. Persian Architecture; The Triumph of Form and ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- when Greece went to war (e.g., against the Persian Empire), it took the form ... Two major wars shaped the Ancient Greek world. The Persian Wars (500–448 ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- is a natural metaphor for residents of the Persian Gulf, where fresh waters ... * Yahuda, A. S. The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- in both the Qur'an and the Arabic language for other scriptures, such ... were shattering the vehicle of human language in which it was being communicated ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian empires, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Roman Empire were unreliable. ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- produced the treatises on linguistics Language Made Plain and A Mouthful ... for the screen; invented the prehistoric language spoken in Quest for Fire; ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- see the collection in Isa 1:1). ... The language of the book is a final a ... * 500 B.C.E. and 300 B.C.E. - during the Persian period. Defending ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of ... Although only 5-10 million people speak it as their native language ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- wetlands of the Euphrates valley, not far from the Persian Gulf. Enki was also the master shaper of the world and the god of wisdom and of all ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- tours from World War II up until the Persian Gulf War with the USO. ... I'm not having any trouble with the language. Nobody talks to me," ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- from misunderstandings generated by language. According to analytic philosophers ... on ideas, procedural styles, or written language. The subject matter and ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- such as a bridge across the Danube. During the Persian campaign he built ships to enable the army and the artillery to cross Lake Van. In 1537 he ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- as a shepherd. From foreign places came a Persian bishop John, a Gothic bishop ... the city of Nicaea, and the predominant language spoken when it was written ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- other accounts (including one coming from the Persian point of view) state that Gordian died in battle. Commenting on the leisurely way that he traveled ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- Persia, and his murderer. (Bagoas is an old Persian/Farsai word meaning Eunuch.) * Bagoas (fourth century B.C.E.)--A favorite of Alexander the ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom ... likely due to a homophone in the original language), Geb came to be associated ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit ... period effectively ended with the onset of Persian invasion, around the fifth ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- groups from the coast of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Indonesia, and Madagascar ... the country. French is the official language of the country. ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- which means "Bear House" in the Hopi language. meaning "red house" in the Hopi language). Built in the formidable ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- and regions. These include Gulf War, Persian Gulf War, War in the Gulf ... of Mecca and Medina. Saddam combined the language of the Islamist groups that ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- The term curry (meaning “a stew”) existed in the English language ... cuisines from further afield (such as Persian dishes). Some British variations ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Australia and Europe. They use the Arabic language and follow a social pattern ... of al-Hakim, his cause was taken up by the Persian immigrant Hamza ibn ˤAlī ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- The language of the Kalash is a Dardic language belonging to the Indo ... Until the latter twentieth century, Kalash was an undocumented language ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ... expect to find Isaiah using more explicit language to indicate that a virgin ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and ... lowland continuing to the shores of the Persian Gulf. The geographically ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- his works addressing philosophy, poetry, language, history, and theology. ... a number of languages, including Armenian, Persian at least "in the latter ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- date has been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom, which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- They are believed to have originated around the Persian Gulf, and have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt, ...25 KB (3,862 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Canal was the way most of the growing volumes of Persian Gulf oil got to Europe, cutting the 11,000 nautical mile (20 000 km) journey around the Cape ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- name Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Hendizadeh (Persian: روح الله موسوی ... spread to other parts of the oil-exporting Persian Gulf and began to supply ...50 KB (7,539 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and ... Israel has two official languages: Hebrew, the state language spoken ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- he spoke English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Persian. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/24/db2401.xml&sSheet ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- was to end the slave trade to the Persian Gulf that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. In 1878, a number of traders, mostly from ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- The name Volga originates from Lithuanian language which signifies ... its access to oil and to supplies via the Persian Corridor. For this reason ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- it also saw the growth of Kannada as a language of literature in the Jaina ... provide more evidence of the Chalukya language.Kamath, 2001, 6, 10, 57 ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- The official and common language is Dhivehi, an Indo-European language ... and write Divehi; there are modern Divehi-language primary schools; and there ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- or Palestinian Arabic as their mother language. For liturgical purposes ... There were also some Samaritans in the Persian Empire, where they served ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- empire. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is the ... The Portuguese empire expanded from the Indian Ocean into the Persian ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and ... who had adopted it from the Greek language term Palaestina (Παλαιστινη ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- the Qur'an, which is a miracle of language and incomparable as a work ... * Salman the Persian * Talha * Umar ibn al-Khattab * Uthman ibn Affan ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- *****Persian jird, Meriones persicus *****King jird, Meriones rex ****Subgenus Pallasiomys *****Arabian jird, Meriones arimalius *****Cheng's ...22 KB (2,988 words) - 15:28, 30 November 2022
- to Jews and Christians in the Sassanid Persian Empire were used as sources ... was built on the place of an eponymous Persian village, as well as to some ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- ; Brāhmaṇas contain older strata of language attributed to the Saṃhitās; ... the smriti, but which are late Vedic in language and content, as part of ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- In contrast, Rumi, the Persian Sufi mystic poet, taught that when the human body dies, the soul could become an angel. He wrote in his poem Masnavi: ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- date has been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom, which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- remained distinct in its religion, arts, language, and customs. The first ... control of the country after a brief Persian invasion early in the seventh ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom ... speech during the last stages of the Egyptian language. ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- literary sources in the Kannada language, such as the Kanteerava ... preferred to perform his duties in sign language and written communication ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- ), also known as Persian New Year, a Zoroastrian holiday, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Iranian calendar ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- struggle and cadences of his language, Melville discloses the ... of the canonical novels in the English language, and has secured Melville ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- Alternatively, the word may be derived from Urdu, Persian and Arabic ţūfān (طوفان), which in turn originates from Greek tuphōn (Τυφών ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- meaning river valley. In the ancient Egyptian language, the Nile is called iteru, meaning "great river," represented by the hieroglyphs shown ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- with Ancient Egypt. Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be among the ... received significant financial aid from Persian Gulf Arab states as a result ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- not only over the Balkans, but also to the Persian Empire, including Egypt ... alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language, and were apostles to the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Seleucid ruler Antiochus III (who had some Persian descent) according to the ... standard (Greek weights, Greek language), although most likely none ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back to the Sanskrit word ... Barbosa's usage was derived from Persian Chīn (چین), which ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- is the New Testament, written in the Koine Greek language. ... their present form in the Persian period (538–332 B.C.E ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- incorporated Judah and Palestine into the Persian Empire. Cyrus organized ... Sabastiye, near Nablus, was the northernmost province of the Persian ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- 80-90 tumuli which date back to Phrygian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods ... *Mallory, J.P. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Although fluent in French, the working language of the League, the Emperor ... the celebration of the 2,500 years of the Persian Empire, the summits of the ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. ... can include times as early as the Greco-Persian Wars, or as late as the ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- The term Milky Way first appeared in the English language in a poem ... The Persian astronomer, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048), proposed ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- date has been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom, which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- speakers, and as Bambai in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian. Sujata Patel, ... city of India. Marathi, the official language of Maharashtra state, is ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- called "reformed Egyptian" a language not known or recognized ... Joseph Smith said that the plates were engraved in an unknown language ...50 KB (7,692 words) - 04:51, 20 December 2022
- ancient empires, exceeded only by the Persian Empire and by the Chinese ... Rome on culture, law, technology, arts, language, religion, government, military ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- The word Mazda derives from Ahura Mazda, the Avestan language name ... first and last A sounds in the original Persian pronunciation. ...29 KB (4,390 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- serves as the official, and most widely spoken, language. ... traditions. Writers in the Kannada language have received the most number ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- to the inscription, Alopen (Olopen), the Persian bishop (some scholars claim ... that they largely served the foreign Persian trading community. Around ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- and detailing the rise of Darius I to the Persian throne, can also be seen ... are about totalitarian regimes in which language is constantly corrupted ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- Haman to exterminate all the Jews in the Persian Empire under Xerxes. Although ... example the greatest poet of the German language, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856 ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- boundary, there were groups that shared a language, culture, or other similarity ... the seventh century introduced the Arabic language and Islam to North Africa ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- In common language, to "demonize" a person means to characterize ... of the Zoroastrianism religion of the Persian Empire, demonology never ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- (or the Karakhanids) gravitated toward the Persian Islamic cultural zone after ... their independence and their written language. The son of Genghis Khan ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- these laws were still written in Latin, a language that was becoming archaic ... the empire by making Greek the official language, thus ending the last remnants ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- kings encouraged writers in the native language of Kannada and Sanskrit. ... of the numerous excavated Kannada language inscriptions left by the ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- ancient Egyptians spoke an Afro-Asiatic language, related to Chadic, Berber ... , divided the dynasties into 30; the 31st (Persian) and 32nd dynasties (the ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- also included extensive removal of Arabic and Persian words from the Turkish language. Mustafa Kemal opened new schools, where, as part of the ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- aware lives. He deliberately used simple language, and had no interest or ... Ashoka left behind was the first written language in India since the ancient ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- Dictionary and derived from the Persian language for the people who lived ... sacred texts are composed in the Sanskrit language. Indeed, much of the morphology ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- Nepal's diverse linguistic heritage evolved from four major language ... Derived from Sanskrit, Nepali is related to the Indian language Hindi ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- * Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged. W.A. Neilson, T.A. Knott, P.W. Carhart (eds ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- making Iraq the only country in the Persian Gulf region not ruled according ... Iraqi society is divided along lines of language, religion and ethnicity; ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- and sometimes unconventional use of the Latin language. ... in the rhetoric genre, the structure, the language, and the style of Cicero ...43 KB (6,444 words) - 02:48, 27 February 2023
- in Britain, or wherever the English language shall be known, so long ... genre, by connecting it to ancient Persian and Greek literature. For ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- use of popular Mongolian names, habits, language, and clothing. ... 37 countries, some as far away as the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- what is now Lebanon called their language Canaanite, but were referred ... The Etruscan language has not yet been deciphered, but archaeological ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- #039;s 'Parzival,'" The Modern Language Review 51(2) (April 1956), 195-202. 201. In this way, the legend managed to survive both ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- a Latin script to make Somali a written language for the first time. They ... peoples began to mingle with Arab and Persian traders who had settled ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- #039;s longest continuously used written language system: Chinese characters ... of religion, philosophy, culture, and language. However, it has also been ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- disability status, education, religion, language, profession, political party ... Arab, but there are large blocks that are Persian, Asian, European and North ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- garlic. It is also said that soldiers of the Persian King, Darius the Great (521-486 B.C.E.) baked a kind of bread flat upon their shields and then ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- was Zyriab, who imported forms of the Persian music, revolutionized the ... influence on culture, customs and even language varies enormously between ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- their structural rigidity. At the height of the Persian tradition of illustrated book production (AD 1300–1600), such light harps were still frequently ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Bahrain and Sumer. The discovery of typical Persian gulf seals, a circular button seal, provides evidence of trade in Lothal. ===Declining years=== ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- Babylonian exile and continues into the Persian period. Although loyally ... form of quatrains expressed in symbolic language. His predictions thus being ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- to the term "cossack." The old Persian word "stan" means ... sixteenth century had developed a common language, culture, and economy. In ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- of indigenous peoples. In today's language, such colonization would ... the Great, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- tabashir or tawashir in Unani-Tibb, the Indo-Persian system of medicine. This concretion, called in English, "bamboo manna," is said to be a ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- ability in three others (Hebrew, Persian, and Sanskrit). His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his revalorization of ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- that all children pick up their native language very quickly, and even dialects ... developed a highly personal harmonic language and melodic style which ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- and prospered, furnishing fleets for the Persian kings. ... than 6,000 years. Although the official language is Arabic, the Arabs only ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- approach to the study of behavior and language. He showed that the rules ... problem solving, memory, learning, language, and emotion are areas of ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- attitudes, including those of: the Persian Empire, Ancient Greece, ... "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution ...34 KB (5,154 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- a major city in southwest of the Sassanid Persian Empire founded in 271 C.E. by Shapur I. Mehmet Mahfuz Söylemez, [The Jundishapur School: Its ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- This modern concept of emotion first emerged in the English language ... In the early eleventh century, Avicenna, the Persian physician, philosopher ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Finally, the eleventh century Persian geographer Abu Said Gardizi ... Period of the History of the Russian Language" Encyclopedia of Slavonic ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- Pakistan, and Turkey called namaaz (a Persian word). Salah is Islam's ... of the Qur'an in the original language. Those who have memorized ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- defined by rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative and philosophical ... "The Beggar Woman"—the Bangla language's first short story ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- * The Caspian tiger or Persian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) appears ... Perhaps the most anthologized poem in the English language. ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- among the Roman aristocracy. The eighth-century Persian alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber) concentrated acetic acid from vinegar through distillation. ...35 KB (5,135 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- and eighth centuries, which included the Persian Empire, Roman Syria, Roman ... be necessary to adopt new modes of dress, language and custom. ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- of any kind, was issued in the ancient Persian Empire by its founder Cyrus ... of Human Rights included the seminal language mentioned in its Article ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Lanka, ruby from India, Afghani lapis lazuli, Persian turquoise, Red Sea peridot, as well as Bohemian and Hungarian opal, garnet, and amethyst. Large ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- *Hasan Javadi, Satire in Persian Literature. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. ISBN 0838632602 ;The Plot of Satire. ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- the Ottomans had to contend with the Persian Shah and the Mameluke Sultanate ... the Austrians through a common culture, language and the lenient terms imposed ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- Buddhists were in Pali, an Indian language which could only be understood ... of the kingdom used the ancient Mon language, but whether they were ethnically ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- The Albanian language, shqip, is Indo-European without being a member ... influence of Eastern poetry, especially Persian, with the spirit of the ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- of the Sublime (drama in nature) in the language of the landscape. ... tiles from Turkey in a blend of Gothic, Persian and Aesthetic Movement elements ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- state religions was issued in the ancient Persian Empire by its founder, Cyrus ... the Donation was a fake by analyzing its language, and showing that certain ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- Buddhist monasteries are generally called vihara (Pali language). ... years or more, and had spread deep into the Persian empire. ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires. "There were ... not work where the two sides had no common language. A military explanation ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- version is that Kirov based it on the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. Lenoe, 186. Kirov became commander of the Bolshevik military administration ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- Diable boiteux, The Serapion Brethren, a Persian novel called Haggi Baba ... details, the lack of positivity and powerful language. ====Moskvityanin==== ...55 KB (8,334 words) - 16:48, 29 September 2021
- ; they attacked the baggage camels of the Persian king Xerxes on his march ... * P. l. persica, known as the Asiatic lion or South Asian, Persian ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- The word Viking was introduced to the English language with romantic ... dominated areas of Eastern Europe. The Persian traveler Ibn Rustah (tenth ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- |title=Jihadist Expansion in Iraq puts Persian Gulf states in a tight spot ... speaking on a pulpit in the Arabic language to a congregation at the ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- poets in the Turkish, Arabic, and Persian languages. ===Defeats, revolts=== ... are south Slavic languages. The Bosnian language uses the Latin alphabet ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- the Arabic word Tubbat, which comes via Persian from the Turkic word Töbäd ... and the "proto-Tibeto-Burman" language may have split sometime ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- especially after the defeat of an Avar-Persian army in 626 by the Byzantines ... culture in the central region, Hungarian language and culture in the northern ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- the learning and use of the Japanese language in schools. Other methods ... * Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. Decolonising the mind: the politics of language ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- and the capacity for speech and language, with an erect body carriage ... brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, and introspection. Humans ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- started trading across the sea with Muscat and the Persian Gulf region. A small fort was constructed for its protection, armed with cannons imported ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- The Mandarin-language Gēnǚ hóng mǔdān ( 歌|女|紅|牡|丹 ... Ardeshir Irani produced the first Persian-language talkie, Dukhtar-e-loor ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- conquered Goa, in India, Ormuz in the Persian Strait, and Malacca in what ... Portuguesa—Community of Portuguese Language Countries). The only international ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- to the Caspian Sea in the west and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea ... create a writing system for the Mongolian language based on existing Uyghur script. ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- of audio information, hearing, and language, is relatively far greater ... Warring States of China, and later by the Persian Empire. This use was adopted ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- the war. (The 2004 remake of the movie used the Persian Gulf War of 1991 instead.) *MASH (1970), about the staff of a U.S. Army field hospital ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings (c. 915) includes numerous details about Noah's ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- (known as "sepoys," from Urdu/Persian sipaahi = "soldier ... period. The predominance of the English language in India, has also proved ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- time and space, as well as differences in language, culture, and creed. For ... too, peoples whose languages—such as Persian, Turkish, and Urdu—were ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Me", which appeared on his gold album, Love Language. ... During the Persian Gulf War, Houston performed "The Star Spangled ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- Manichaeism was founded by Mani, a Persian, in the third century. As a mixture of Zoroastrianism, the old Babylonian religion of the Ophitic ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- have perceived evil. In fact, in the Persian Empire from 550 to 330 B ... Psychotic disorder: Patterns of belief, language use and perception ...72 KB (9,918 words) - 21:54, 14 November 2023
- a combat zone was aboard the HMAS Westralia in the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War. In 1992, allegations of alleged sexual harassment on ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
