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The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars province in Iran. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. They are one of the five tribes of the larger Khamseh confederation. [2]: 1 The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that ...
Laleh Bakhtiar (1938–2020) Iranian and American Islamic and Sufi scholar; Najaf Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (1846–1930) Persian Prime Minister and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution; Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991) Prime Minister of Iran; Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932– 2001) Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza ...
Qashqai people [a] (pronounced [ɢæʃɢɒːˈjiː]; Persian: قشقایی) are a Turkic tribal confederation in Iran.Almost all of them speak a Western Turkic (Oghuz) language known as the Qashqai language – which they call "Turkī" – as well as Persian (the national language of Iran) in formal use.
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
Golshifteh Farahani during an interview with BBC Persian. After Farahani's appearance in the U.S. film Body of Lies, it was reported that Iranian government authorities had prevented her from leaving Iran. [2] However, this was denied by her colleagues, and she appeared at the movie's American premiere. [12]
Motamed was born in Tehran and spent her childhood in Iran. [4] Her family fled to Paris after the Iranian Revolution, [5] [6] then to New York when she was a teenager. [2] She attended Binghamton University in upstate New York and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, earning dual degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. [7]
Map 12: Persian Empire in Achaemenid era, 6th century BC, showing names of ancient Iranian peoples in the Iranian Plateau and southern Central Asia on the right side of the map Map 13: Ancient regions of Iranian Plateau and part of South Central Asia showing ancient Iranian peoples and tribes; this map also shows ancient peoples of the Indus ...