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Rose of Persia😷
PersiaPhotos
The 2500-year-old gate of #Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of ancient Persians. Near #Shiraz-#Iran. #Xerxes was there! 2x 3x 4xAdding to this thread 5xAdding to this threadGate of #Persepolis, the
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Ma’at
surimana16
The Gate of All Nations in Persepolis, Iran was built under the Achaemenid King Xerxes I (518-465 BC). All visitors to the royal palaces of Persepolis had to pass through
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prakya
prakyavasudevan
Book 1: #Persepolis #Quarantinereading Next up on #quarentinereading: Who Painted My Money White by @SreeIyer1. Have been meaning to read this for a long long time now. Eep! :) Next
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Adrian Mouat
adrianmouat
Is there an independent UK/Edinburgh bookshop that I can order sci-fi books online from? Don't really want to give my money to Amazon right now. I found @hivestores, but they
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Historians of Iran
HistorianofIran
Hello everyone, here is @majdanesh Day three1/Today I will talk about the Shah, Farah Diba, and the Committee of Cyrus the Great in the Archipelago, and the role of the
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Ashkan Etemadi
AshkanTweets
Mohammad Reza Shah #Pahlavi’s magnificent 2500 Year Anniversary Celebration of the #Persian Empire began on this day, Oct. 12, in 1971 & lasted until Oct. 16I’ll write about my views
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Jessica Price
Delafina777
So a while back I did this thread about how almost everything we "know" about the Minoans was made up by Arthur Evans to soothe a European inferiority complex about
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🇬🇧 Zac X 🇵🇰
XerxestheMagian
ancestral city in Iran.Fasa is a small town in Fars, which dates back to the Achaemenian times.It's mentioned in the Persepolis archives and is sister town to Darab (Darius Town-
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Persian Rose, stay at home! 🇺🇸🇮🇷🏳️
PersianRose1
Colors of #Persia Adding to this post Colors of #Persia Adding to this threadColors of #Persia Adding to this thread Colors of #Persia1-#Abyaneh Village, #Isfahan 2-Nasirol-molk mosque, #Shiraz 3-Tomb of
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Historians of Iran
HistorianofIran
On Nowruz 1350 (1971/72), the Shah declared the new year “Cyrus the Great Year.” He said: “The best gift which we can certainly offer to this immortal hero at the
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Robert Steele
rob_steele1
On the morning of 12 October 1971, the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations began at Pasargadae with the ‘Glorification of Cyrus the Great' ceremony’. (1/10) This homage by the Shah to Cyrus
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SAM
Sam_speaks7
FC GOA : THE JOURNEYWhen goa got drawn in arguably the TOUGHEST group possible, we hoped that we wudnt get humiliated. Maybe scrap a draw or two. But @JuanFerrandoF and
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Southeast Asian Historians
SEA_historian
The 1970s saw more exchanges between #Malaysia & #Iran but it was also a period of deep uncertainty for the Shah: with domestic & international opposition rising. Both were on
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History of Central Asia and Khorâsan
BiruniKhorasan
Of all my ancestors contributions to mankind, I must say this is one my favorite ones: trousers!The oldest known trousers were found at the Yanghai cemetery, extracted from mummies in
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Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ
bdaiwi_historia
1/The author, @Ed_Husain, made a string of errors and specious arguments in this piece. The analysis of medieval Islamic history and philosophy on display is not only outdated, but quite
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Omer Sayadi
MENAsymbolism
The cosmic movements of the heavenly bodies has always intrigued mankind all throughout history. To depict this "moving of the gods", the earliest civilizations used feathered wings to symbolize the
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