Black and white lithograph showing Muhammed Shah, the ruler of Persia, dressed in his finery, probably consisting of the khilauts (Shoberl 1845, p. 62-63) ensemble. He wears a jeweled crown, collar, ...

Volume one covers the years 1901–32 and deals with the earlier years of the D'Arcy Concession from its granting in 1901 by the Shah of Persia, to the discovery of oil in 1908, the formation of the ...

The scale of the event was staggering, with 18 tons of food, 180 waiters, and 25,000 bottles of wine to serve the elite ...

The capital Delhi was raided in 1739 by the Shah of Persia and the Mughals lost much territory to the Maratha invasion. The British East India Company began to seize lands to gain control of trade ...

By 1501, he had secured Azarbaijan and crowned himself shah at Tabriz. In 1503, he added Shiraz to his domains, followed by Baghdad in 1507 and Herat in 1508. Persia, the region that we know as Iran, ...

1926: Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who is lynched on the spot. On the same ...

Simply put, everything is not what it seems when it comes to the inspiration behind some of history's most recognizable ...

Shahnameh or Shah-nameh is a Persian national epic, presented to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and completed in 1010. It is a poem ...

Iran has cited a 19th-century British map as part of its dispute with the United Arab Emirates over a number of Gulf islands.

When Freba Rezayee, an Olympic judoka from Afghanistan, fled her native land for Vancouver in 2011, one of her most pleasant ...