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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.
The Comprehensive History of Iran (Persian: تاریخ جامع ایران) is a twenty-volume book series about various aspects of Iran's political, social and cultural history from pre-Islamic times to the extinction of the Qajar dynasty.
Books 1–6 may have originally been conceived as a separate work devoted to Assyriaca and Medica, and opposed to the rest of the work devoted to the Persian history. Books 7–11: Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC). The books described Cyrus' rise from humble origins, his conquest of the Median empire and his reign down to his death.
This prose Shahnameh was in turn and for the most part the translation of a Pahlavi (Middle Persian) work, known as the Khwadāy-Nāmag "Book of Kings", a late Sasanian compilation of the history of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of Khosrow II (590–628).
Non-fiction books inspired by Anabasis include: The Anabasis of Alexander, by the Greek historian Arrian (86 – after 146 AD), is a history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, specifically his conquest of the Persian Empire between 334 and 323 BC. [citation needed]
To the east, the Persians' political and military power had been growing at a rapid pace under the Achaemenid dynasty, and by 540 BC, Cyrus had initiated an offensive campaign against the Neo-Babylonian Empire. In late 539 BC, the Persian army secured a crucial victory in the Battle of Opis, thereafter triumphantly entering the city of Babylon.
Nihāyat al-arab fī akhbār al-Furs wa ʾl-ʿArab ("The Ultimate Aim, about the History of the Persians and the Arabs") is an anonymous 9th-century Arabic history of Persia and South Arabia. [1] Its author is sometimes known as Pseudo-Aṣmaʿī. [2] It is preserved in four manuscripts:
[35] Persian pride was hurt by the Arab conquest, making the status quo intolerable. [36] A Sasanian army helmet. After the defeat of the Persian forces at the Battle of Jalula in 637, Yazdgerd III went to Rey and from there moved to Merv, where he set up his capital and directed his chiefs to conduct continuous raids in Mesopotamia. Within ...