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The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,008,980 articles, 1,329,125 registered users, and 91,496 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012.
The Persian Encyclopedia ( Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions ...
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 ...
Iran, [ a] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( IRI ), [ b] also known as Persia, [ c] is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
The chestnut-headed bee-eater ( Merops leschenaulti) is a bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae, which is distributed in an area ranging from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka across Southeast Asia to Indonesia. It is 18–20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) in overall length and weighs 26–33 g (0.92–1.16 oz), with the sexes being similar in appearance.
Ibn Sina ( Persian: ابن سینا, romanized : Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( / ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/ ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [4] [5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [6]
Art. Iran has one of the oldest, richest and most influential art heritages in the world which encompasses many disciplines including literature, music, dance, architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking, embroidery and stonemasonry. Intricate stone art of Persepolis. Iranian art has gone through numerous phases, which ...
The Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature (Persian: دانشنامه زبان و ادب فارسی, Dāneshnāme-ye Zabān-o Adab-e Fārsi) is a Persian-language encyclopedia, published in Tehran, Iran. External links. Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature