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  2. Yazidis - Wikipedia

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    Yezidis were subject to brutal persecution by Arabs, Persians, Turks and Sunni Kurds. Two of the most known early and major expeditions against the Yezidis took place in 1246, when the Yezidi leader, Sheikh Hassan ibn Adi was killed by Badr Ad-Din Lulu , and 1414, when a joint army of neighbouring Sunni Kurdish tribes ransacked Lalish.

  3. Yazidism - Wikipedia

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    Mihbet (meaning 'love') came into being and was laid as the original foundation, colours began to form, and red, yellow and white began to shine from the burst pearl. The Yazidi religion has its own perception of the colours, which is seen in the mythology and shown through clothing taboos, in religious ceremonies, customs and rituals.

  4. Persecution of Yazidis - Wikipedia

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    [64] [65] "Farman" meant "decree" in Persian, and referenced the decrees given by the Ottoman government targeting the Yazidis, which were so numerous that the Yazidis began to interpret the word as having meant genocide. [66] The last Farman is number 74 and denotes the genocide of the Yazidis by the IS terrorists. [67] [12] [13] [68]

  5. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    The Middle English word limon goes back to Old French limon, showing that yet another delicacy passed into England through France. The Old French word probably came from Italian limone, another step on the route that leads back to the Arabic word ليمون، ليمون laymūn or līmūn, which comes from the Persian word لیمو līmū. Lilac

  6. Name of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Modern reconstruction of the ancient world map of Eratosthenes from c. 200 BC, using the names Ariana and Persis. The Greeks (who had previously tended to use names related to "Median") began to use adjectives such as Pérsēs (Πέρσης), Persikḗ (Περσική) or Persís (Περσίς) in the fifth century BC to refer to Cyrus the Great's empire (a word understood to mean "country"). [17]

  7. Adawiyya - Wikipedia

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    The vast majority of adherents were Kurmanji Kurds, with minorities of Arabs, Turks, and Persians. As Adawiyya was very isolated and most of its adherents were Kurds, the other ethnicities gradually assimilated. By the time that Adawiyya split from Islam and stopped accepting religious converts, virtually all of its adherents were Kurdish.

  8. Um, What Exactly Is the Spring Equinox and What Happens ... - AOL

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    Millions of people around the world celebrate the vernal equinox as a secular holiday known as Nowruz or the Iranian New Year or Persian New Year. The Persian New Year marks the first day of the ...

  9. Semitic people - Wikipedia

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    The first depiction of historical ethnology of the world separated into the biblical sons of Noah: Semites, Hamites and Japhetites. Gatterer's Einleitung in die Synchronistische Universalhistorie (1771) explains his view that modern history has shown the truth of the biblical prediction of Japhetite supremacy (Genesis 9:25–27). [1]