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The exonym Persia was the official name of Iran in the Western world before March 1935, but the Iranian peoples inside their country since the time of Zoroaster (probably circa 1000 BC), or even before, have called their country Arya, Iran, Iranshahr, Iranzamin (Land of Iran), Aryānām (the equivalent of Iran in the proto-Iranian language) or ...
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 ...
The eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War (September 1980 – August 1988, known as The Imposed War in Iran [98]) was the most important international event for the first decade of the Islamic Republic and possibly for its history so far. It helped to strengthen the revolution although it cost Iran much in lives and treasure.
Rock relief of Ardashir I (224–242 AD) in Naqsh-e Rostam, inscribed "This is the figure of Mazdaworshipper, the lord Ardashir, King of Iran.". The term Iran ' the land of the Aryans ' derives from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a 3rd-century inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying Parthian inscription using Aryān, in reference to the Iranians. [8]
The first Persian Constitution was adopted during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. 1925: 31 March: Solar Hijri calendar legally adopted in Iran. [11] 1941: 25 August: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: Three Soviet armies began invasion of Iran from the north, while British army invades Khuzestan and Central Iran. 1945: November
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 post-revolutionary leader—Twelver Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—first came to political prominence in 1963 when he led opposition to the Shah and his White Revolution. Khomeini was arrested in 1963 after declaring the Shah a "wretched miserable man" who had "embarked on the [path toward] destruction of Islam in Iran."
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 September 2024. Expansion of the Islamic state (622–750) For later military territorial expansion of Islamic states, see Spread of Islam. Early Muslim conquests Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632 Expansion under the Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661 Expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750 Date ...