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Geography / people
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Covering
an area of 1/648/000 square Km/Iran
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Is a wide
country located in south west Asia.
Iran
is the neighbor of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in the
North, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the East, Persian Gulf and Oman
Sea in the South and Iraq turkey in the west the border of Iran is
5170 KM and its water border is 2510 KM.
Iran has a dry
climate. The annual average rainfall in Iran is 275mms and it
average temperature is 25C. From the total land area of Iran 180200
sq .km is forested. And the huge
peak of Iran is Damavand in
Alborz Mountains with 5671 m.
The population of Iran is approximately 65
millions out of which 98% are Moslems and the remaining 2% are
Christian, Jewish and Zorro a strain.
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Irans former name Persia till 1935 - derives from the
historical province of the province called Fars or pars, at a
teem when the Greeks who called it persist attempted to
conquer the country.
Practically speaking only the English talk about Persia. It is
like them to do so, for
in reality
"Persia"
is to
Iran"
what England is to the United Kingdom.
And that is
not the main connection between European civilization and Iran,
for the word Iran is etymologically akin to the word Aryan, and
throughout history has been intermittently applied to the
peoples of Indo-European, that is, Aryan origin occupying the
plateau, and to the plateau itself.
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Historiography
Historiography
of Iran is the history of ups and downs and along the history, so
many empires and dynasties has governed over this country of which
the most important are:
Achaemenians
533-330 BC Solookian 330-247 BC Parthian 247 BC-224 AD-Sassanians
224-651 AD Attack of Arabs against Iran 645 AD Omavian and
Abbasian 749-932 AD Saffarian 866-903 AD Samanian 819-999 AD
Al Bouyeh 945-1055 AD Ghaznavian 977-1186 AD Saljooghyan
1038-1194 AD Kharazmshahian 1077-1231 AD Attack of Mongols
to Iran 1220 AD ilkhanian 1256-1353 AD Mozaffarian 1314-1393
AD Taymurian 1370-1506 AD Turkamanan 1380-1468 AD
Safavian (Safavid) 1501-1732 AD Afsharian 1734-1796 AD
Zandian 1750-1794 AD Ghajarieh 1779-1924 AD Pahlavi
1924-1979 AD Islamic Revolution 1979 AD
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