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Persian/Asiatic lion. Asiatic cheetah. Persian leopard. Persian cat. Persian fallow deer. Caspian horse. Nightingale. Falcon. Kurdish horse, named to the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list of Iran.
18 hours ago · Farsi Language: A Brief Overview. Farsi, or Persian, is the official language of Iran, with around 110 million speakers worldwide. It’s a branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, making it one of the most significant languages in the region. Farsi is written in the Persian writing system, which uses a variation of the Arabic script, though ...
18 hours ago · Ossetian is the sole survivor of the branch of Iranian languages known as Scythian. The Scythian group included numerous tribes, known in ancient sources as the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Saka, the Sarmatians, the Alans, and the Roxolani. The more easterly Khwarazm and Sogdians were also closely affiliated in linguistic terms.
18 hours ago · Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
18 hours ago · Around 600 CE in Sassanid Persia, the name for the game became chatrang (Persian: چترنگ), which subsequently evolved to shatranj (Arabic: شطرنج; Persian: شترنج) after the conquest of Persia by the Rashidun Caliphate, due to the lack of native "ch" and "ng" sounds in the Arabic language. [5]
18 hours ago · Petra (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْراء, romanized:Al-Batrāʾ; Greek: Πέτρα, "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu (Nabataean: 𐢛𐢚𐢒 or 𐢛𐢚𐢓𐢈 , * Raqēmō), [ 3 ][ 4 ] is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems, Petra is also ...
18 hours ago · Since the rise of the Iranian New Wave of Persian cinema, Iran has produced record numbers of film school graduates; each year more than 20 new directors, many of them women, make their debut films. In the last two decades, the percentage of Iranian film directors who are women has exceeded the percentage of women film directors in most Western countries. [ 137 ]
