The 1909 treaty by which the Russians and the British divided the country into zones of economic influence, awarded the oil concessions to an English company. The military occupation by the two…
Persian literature, the literature written in the neo-Persian language. Important works of Persian literature (selection) Firdausi: »Book of Kings« (around 1010, national epic) Sanai: “Garden of True Reality” (around 1130,…
According to localtimezone, the population of Iran is the result of that progressive expansion towards the S of the Central Asian and Indo-European populations, who on the one hand conquered…