Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

the Maseeh chair in Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of "Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Dureé" (Mazda Publishers ...

True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

“This didn’t mean the local culture disappeared — quite ... but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal,” says Briant.

When the Persian- and Turkic-speaking Timurid prince, Babur, invaded India in the 16th century, establishing the Mughal Empire, he encountered a culture already deeply Persianised that had already ...

The sovereign got rid of Cyrus by sending him to Sardis, a city in Ionia, a region that although it was within Persian territory (in present-day Turkey) was dotted with cities of Greek culture ... all ...

Each year, on the 10th of Ordibehesht in the Iranian calendar, Iran observes Persian Gulf National Day — a moment to ... 1622 victory in which the combined forces of Iran’s Safavid Empire and the ...

Alexander succeeded in uniting Greece and spreading its culture and language across ... of Alexander’s rule when he conquered the Persian Empire. The ancient city of Merv, now ruined, was ...

When his empire fell apart after his unexpected death, his officials and generals took over parts of it, and Greek language and culture thrived ... River in Turkey, a Persian satrap (commander ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...