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Pages in category "Cultural depictions of ancient Persian people" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ancient and modern Iranian peoples mostly descend from the Proto-Indo-Iranians, common ancestors respectively of the Proto-Iranians and Proto-Indo-Aryans, this people possibly was the same of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture. Proto-Iranians separated from the Proto-Indo-Aryans early in the 2nd-millennium BCE.
The Great Persian Famine of 1870–1871 is believed to have caused the death of two million people. [179] A new era in the history of Iran dawned with the Persian Constitutional Revolution against the Shah in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
[23] [24] [1] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a common, ancestral 'Aryan' origin. [22] Like the name of Iran (* Aryānām ), the adjective * aryāna is related to Airyanəm Waēǰō ('stretch of the Aryas'), the mythical homeland of ...
Although the law requires the collection of data on the number of individuals with disabilities, as well as on the types of disabilities; however, following a low 2011 national census statistic — which purported a mere 1.35% of the population as having disabilities — the Iran Statistics Center removed all questions relating to disability ...
See also Argead and Seleucid dynasty for the foreign rulers over Persia 330- 247 BC BC. Arsaces I c. 247–211 BC (In some histories, Arsaces's brother Tiridates I is said to have ruled c. 246–211 BC.)
This category is for Persian people before the Muslim conquest of Persia (AD 644). Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
The Old Persian and Avestan evidence is confirmed by the Greek sources. [19] Herodotus, in his Histories, remarks about the Iranian Medes that "Medes were called anciently by all people Arians" (7.62). [19] [20] In Armenian sources, the Parthians, Medes and Persians are collectively referred to as Iranians. [29]