The term “Persia” originates from “Parsa,” the name of the region in southwestern Iran that was home to the empire’s founders. This designation, however, was primarily propagated by Greek historians and subsequently adopted by Western cultures to refer to the entire kingdom. This nomenclatu...
Persia or Iran had a crucial role in history for a variety of reasons, and Iran was not given that name until 1935. While Iranians had been calling their nation Iran since 1000 BC, this name change was only made so that the Western World would begin to refer to the country by the sa...
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it marked the start of an effort by the English to colonise North America and laid the foundations for the British Empire. Elizabethan explorers were the founders of England’s international trading empire, which stretched to North Africa, Persia, the Middle East, Java, India, the Philippines...
Persiawas the first civilized power known to have attempted to invade the Afghan region and apparently was the first to encounter troubles ensuing from its “conquest.” Though details are sparse, we know that Cyrus the Great was forced to invade the region twice. He died there in 530 B.C...
The part of the Church united with the Catholic Church in 1551 got the name “Chaldeans” and with that the Chaldean Church (of Babylon) was born. The remaining part of the East-Aramean Nestorians, especially in Hakkaria (bordering Turkey- Iraq) and Urmia (Iran), were described as “...
I was suitably impressed. I’d nearly not been allowed on the plane after a last-minute security check. The suspicious UK official asked me why I was going to Iran. ‘Skiing,’ I relied cheerfully. He asked me to accompany him into a little room; I imagine there’s going to be a ...
The term Silk Road (Seidenstrassen, in German) was first coined by the German geographer, Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (1833-1905), uncle of the famous "Great War" (WWI) German fighter pilot, Manfred von Richthofen, aka the "Red Baron", in Ferdinand von Richthofen's book, "China: ...
1) One of the biggest reasons is the geopolitical change in the Muslim world which saw the decline of Ummayad Spain into Taifa's which the Christians gobbled up one by one. Roughly simultaneously the Mongols emerged in the East and ransacked C. Asia, Persia and finally Baghdad. Cordoba and...