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  2. Haft-sin - Wikipedia

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    Haft-seen table. Haft Seen or Haft sin (Persian: هفت‌سین) is an arrangement of seven symbolic items which names start with the letter "س" (pronounced as "seen"), the 15th letter in the Persian alphabet; "haft" (هفت) is Persian for "seven". [1][2] It is traditionally displayed at Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, which is celebrated on ...

  3. Korsi - Wikipedia

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    A korsi or korsí (Persian: کرسی) is a type of low table found in Iran and Afghanistan, with a heater underneath it, and blankets thrown over it. It is a traditional item of furniture in Iranian culture. A family or other gathering sits on the floor around the korsi during the winter. A korsi used to be quite popular for entire families to ...

  4. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm -born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...

  5. Iranian calendars - Wikipedia

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    1446 AH. [refresh] The Iranian calendar or Iranian chronology (Persian: گاه‌شماری ایرانی, Gâh Ŝomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for ...

  6. Iranian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Chelow kabab is considered to be the national dish of Iran. [1]Iranian cuisine is the culinary traditions of Iran.Due to the historically common usage of the term "Persia" to refer to Iran in the Western world, [2] [3] [4] it is alternatively known as Persian cuisine, despite Persians being only one of a multitude of Iranian ethnic groups who have contributed to Iran's culinary traditions.

  7. Nard (game) - Wikipedia

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    2. Movement may be contrary or parallel depending on the variant. Nard (Persian: نرد, also narde or nardshir; from Middle Persian: nywʾlthšyl nēw-ardaxšīr) is an historical Persian tables game for two players that is sometimes considered ancestral to backgammon. It is still played today, albeit in a different form.

  8. Nowruz - Wikipedia

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    Inscription history. Inscription. 2016 (4th session) Nowruz (Persian: نوروز [noːˈɾuːz]) [t] is the Iranian New Year or Persian New Year. [28][29] Historically, it has been observed by Persians and other Iranian peoples, [30] but is now celebrated by many ethnicities worldwide.

  9. Persian language - Wikipedia

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    Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...