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Derived from an Iranian verbal root sak-, "go, roam" (related to "seek") and thus meaning "nomad" was the term Sakā, from which came the names: Old Persian: 𐎿𐎣𐎠 Sakā, used by the ancient Persians to designate all nomads of the Eurasian steppe, including the Pontic Scythians [25] Ancient Greek: Σάκαι Sákai; Latin: Sacae
The majority of the population of Iran (approximately 80%) consists of Iranian peoples. [1] The largest groups in this category include Persians, mostly referred to as Fars (who form 61% of the Iranian population) and Kurds (who form 10% of the Iranian population), with other communities including Semnanis, Khorasani Kurds, Larestanis, Khorasani Balochs, Gilakis, Laks, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats ...
It is Nowruz — the Persian New Year — and the Iranian American Jewish Federation has invited the 46-year-old to perform along with other Iranian female artists — drummers, dancers and singers.
The vertical resolution is usually a multiple of 8 or 16 pixels due to most video codecs processing pixels on such sized blocks. A widescreen FHD video can be 1920 × 800 for a 12∶5 ratio or 1920 × 1040 for roughly 1.85 × 1, for instance.
The Wakhi people refer to themselves as Khik and to their language as Khik zik. [3] The exonym Wakhī, which is given to them by their neighbours, is based on Wux̌, the local name of the region of Wakhan, deriving from *Waxšu, the old name of the Oxus River (Amu Darya), which is a major river formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Baran (Persian: باران; literally: Rain) is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi, based on an original script by Majid Majidi.The movie is set during recent times in which there are many Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran.
Zahra's Paradise (Persian: بهشت زهرا Behesht-e Zahra) is a webcomic and graphic novel by Amir Soltani [1] and Khalil set in modern Iran. It has been described as a political webcomic [2] dealing with real-time events. [3] Its story follows a mother searching for her son, who disappeared around the time of Iran's 2009 elections.