Search results for "Persian language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Tash, in the Turkic language, means "stone," while kand ... Under the Persian Samanid dynasty (819–999), the city came to be ...
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), styled ...
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  • The first is to translate it into the language of your Wikipedia and see ... compare any two wikis, with Not in the other language. Since this list ...
    24 KB (2,496 words) - 20:45, 31 March 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ...
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  • 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" ...
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ...
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  • 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) - 19:24, 24 May 2024
  • 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

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