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Actress (1965) Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (Persian: ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری, romanized: Sorayâ Esfandiâri-Baxtiâri; 22 June 1932 – 25 October 2001) was Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951. Their marriage suffered many pressures, particularly when it became clear that ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 September 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 "Mary I" redirects here. For other uses, see Mary I (disambiguation). Mary I Portrait by Antonis Mor, 1554 Queen of England and Ireland (more...) Reign July 1553 [a] – 17 November 1558 ...
Achaemenid dynasty (559–334/327 BC) The Great King, King of Kings, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the Four Corners of the World. Cyrus the Great. –. 600 BC. Son of Cambyses I king of Anshan and Mandana daughter of Astyages. 559–530 BC.
The Guarded Domains of Iran, [ a ] commonly called Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state [ 7 ] under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin, [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] specifically from the Qajar tribe, from 1789 to 1925. [ 7 ][ 11 ] The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali ...
The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to the Indus River and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Central to this area is modern-day Iran, which covers the bulk of the Iranian Plateau. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest ...
Zoroastrianism in Iran. Zoroastrianism is considered to be the oldest religion still practiced in Iran. It is an Iranian religion that emerged around the 2nd millennium BCE, spreading through the Iranian plateau and eventually gaining official status under the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE.
Queen Mary I. Bishop of Winchester. Peers of the Realm. The coronation of Mary I as Queen of England and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on Sunday 1 October 1553. This was the first coronation of a queen regnant in England, a female ruler in her own right. [1] The ceremony was therefore transformed.
The Marian exiles were English Protestants who fled to continental Europe during the 1553–1558 reign of the Catholic monarchs Queen Mary I and King Philip. [1][2][3] They settled chiefly in Protestant countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany, and also in France, [citation needed] Italy [citation needed] and Poland. [citation ...