Darius the Great, the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire, ruled over the Persian Empire when it was at its largest, stretching from The Caucasus and West Asia to what was then Macedonia (today’s Balkans), the Black Sea, Central Asia and even into Africa including parts of Libya and Eg...
The Persian Wars or Greco-Persian Wars were two separate conflicts, which took place between 490 BCE and 479 BCE, fought between several of the various Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. The Greeks TheGreeceof the ancient world was not a single, united country. The mountainous geography...
TheAncient Persian Empire, orAchaemenid Empire, flourished from its inception by Cyrus I around 600 BCE to its collapse at the hands of Alexander the Great in circa 400 BCE. During the height of the empire's power, it was known for establishing a benign dominance over vast territories and ...
provided Emâm-qoli Khan with willing partners to assist in the expulsion of the Portuguese, in return for sole English custody over the castle of Hormuz, among other things (Boxer, p. 74). On 2 February 1622 five English guns were landed; and after fruitless negotiations between Ruy Freir...
In front of us, we see the extensive Achaemenid empire (green), stretching from the Indus in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Beyond the Aegean Sea, almost at the left edge of this map, we see a green area that consists of several islands and city-states, which have no...
Day 4 Shiraz - Pasargadae - Yazd Leaving Shiraz today, we head for Pasargadae with its six-tiered tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the great Persian Empire. Later we’ll continue to Yazd in time to watch an eerie sunset from the Towers of Silence, the unique Zoroastrian burial towers...
During the reign of the Persian Seleucid Empire, the Babylonians used ‘Goal Year’ tests to predict the motions of planets, and devised elaborate mathematical functions to predict cosmological phenomena, without consulting past records. This must have strengthened the link between astronomy and astrolo...
In addition to this, there is a historical legend that narrates the intimate relationship between the sultanate of Samudera Pasai and the Langkasuka kingdom during the reign of King Bharubhasa/Sultan Mahmud, where this cooperation had given birth to the 'Chermin Empire' in 1339 CE which ...
Click on the Iran Linguistic Composition map to learn more about Persian (Farsi) Language Three phases may be distinguished in the development of Iranian languages: Old, Middle, and Modern. Old Iranian is represented by Avestan and Old Persian. Avestan, probably spoken in the northeast of ancie...
MAP of The Persian Empire. Designed by Moein Azizgolshani. Discover the old Middle East with Ancient names and Modern names in one map. “How big was Iran?” 2500 years ago Persian Empire was created by Cyrus the Great by uniting Meds, Persians and all states and tribes to become the la...