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The Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent c. 500 BC. According to the Behistun inscription, Gaumata ruled for seven months before being overthrown in 522 BC by Darius the Great (Old Persian Dāryavuš, "who holds firm the good", also known as Darayarahush).
The British Empire (red) and Mongol Empire (blue) were the largest and second-largest empires in history, respectively. The precise extent of either empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars.
Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically the Tarim Basin)—all of which have been affected, to some ...
At its greatest territorial extent, the Sasanian Empire encompassed all of modern-day Iran and Iraq and parts of the Arabian Peninsula (particularly Eastern Arabia and South Arabia), as well as the Caucasus, the Levant, and parts of Central Asia and South Asia.
The Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent. Cyrus the Great overthrew, in turn, the Median, Lydian, and Neo-Babylonian empires, creating an empire far larger than Assyria. He was better able, through more benign policies, to reconcile his subjects to Persian rule; the longevity of his empire was one result.
Persian became the official state language of the Timurid Empire [35] [39] and served as the language of administration, history, belles lettres, and poetry. [40] The Chaghatay language was the native and "home language" of the Timurid family, [ 2 ] while Arabic served as the language par excellence of science, philosophy, theology and the ...
Battle of Marathon, Persian Empire is defeated by Greek states. 486 BC: Darius the Great dies; Xerxes I the Great succeeds him as King of Kings. 484 BC: The Babylonian Revolt, led by two pretenders to the Babylonian throne, is crushed by Xerxes. 480 BC: The Achaemenid Empire under Xerxes invades mainland Greece, reaching its greatest extent ...
The Ghaznavid dynasty (Persian: غزنویان Ġaznaviyān) was a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin. [b] It ruled the Ghaznavid Empire or the Empire of Ghazni from 977 to 1186, which at its at its greatest extent, extended from the Oxus to the Indus Valley.