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Tehran: Derived from Persian تهران (Tehrān) meaning "modern". Shiraz (1750–1788): The earliest reference to the city is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BC, found in June 1970, while digging to make a kiln for a brick factory in the southwestern corner of the city. The tablets written in ancient Elamite name a city called Tiraziš.
Since the adoption of surnames, Ahmadi has become the most popular surname in Iran. [3] In many cases people were known by the name of the district, city, town, or even the village from which they came by using the locality's name as a suffix, for example: Nuri, Khorasani, Mazandarani, Kordestani, Tehrani, Esfahani, Gilani, Hamedani, and Shirazi.
Tehran (/ t ɛ ˈ r æ n,-ˈ r ɑː n, ˌ t eɪ-/; Persian: تهران [tehˈɾɒːn] ⓘ, Tehrân) is the capital [6] and largest city of Iran.In addition to serving as the capital of Tehran province, the city is the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District. [7]
To avoid confusion between the two neighboring countries of Iran and Iraq, which were both involved in WWII and occupied by the Allies, Winston Churchill requested from the Iranian government during the Tehran Conference for the old and distinct name "Persia to be used by the United Nations [i.e., the Allies] for the duration of the common War ...
Shemiran, Tehran, near the central Alborz mountain range Shemirān ( Persian : شمیران , pronounced [ʃemiːˈɾɒːn] ) [ a ] is the capital of Shemiranat County , Tehran Province , Iran , but is actually located just north of the borders of Tehran County along Chamran Expressway and Sadr Expressway and it is the northernmost district of ...
Tehrani (Persian: تهرانی, meaning from Tehran, or related to Tehran) may refer to the following: Anything from Tehran. Tehrani accent, the most widely used accent of Persian language; Tehrani, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran; Tehrani (surname): Ahmad Tehrani, 16th-century Iranian bureaucrat and poet
Iranian Azerbaijanis, a Turkic-speaking people, are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity who may speak the Azerbaijani language as their first language. They are mainly settled in and are native to the Iranian Azerbaijan region, including provinces of East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, and West Azerbaijan, and in smaller numbers, Kurdistan, Qazvin, Hamadan, Gilan, Markazi, and Kermanshah.
Being the only important pilgrimage site in vicinity to the royal court in the new capital Tehran brought more people to visit the shrine and a major restoration was sponsored by the court. [32] Thus, between the years 1886 and 1888, under the reign of Qajar ruler Naser al-Din Shah , Ray became the first place in Iran to be connected to the ...