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Yes. The old Persians were one of the major tribes who lived in the Iranian plateau circa 1000 BCE.
"Persian" is a historical mistake started by Herodotus, Iran was Iran from the begining. start to learn the proper name after a long time 2500+ years is a long time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. The old Persians were one of the major tribes who lived in the Iranian plateau circa 1000 BCE.
"Persian" is a historical mistake started by Herodotus, Iran was Iran from the begining. start to learn the proper name after a long time 2500+ years is a long time.
Persians refer to the sub-set of Aryanman of Eran-Zameen ["Land of Arya"] that settled in the general area of the province of Fars (Perse) and after the overthrow of the Median Aryanman (likely forefathers of the Kurds) ascended the world stage [1].
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[1]: http://www.iranchamber.com/history/darius/darius_inscription...
My grandparents/dad/uncle lived in Tehran in the 50s. They always had such wonderful things to say about the people and the culture and the art. Today, in the US, the Iranians I talk to say "we hope one day it will again be a country we would want to live in."
I think of Iran as desert (a particularly beautiful one, judging from the pictures), but I can't imagine Persia having the resources from a desert to become a world power. Was the area of Iran always a desert?
What a nice surprise to see 'Poemas del río Wang' blog on HN. Top notch writing and they also do guided trips.
What exactly are they? I could not figure it out. A humanist society that translates book!?
What a nice surprise to see 'Poemas del río Wang' blog on HN. Top notch writing and they also do guided trips.
Relations between the two tribes go back at least 3000 years if not earlier. (The city of Rages, then Ray, and now a suburb of Teheran, apparently had a substantial Jewish community during the Median period, per Book of Tobit [2]) Typically quite friendly and simpatico. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Daniel [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Tobit
This is nice and all but why on HN?
If there's something we could do to get more high-quality links posted about history, arts and letters, geography, anthropology, etc.—the myriads of interesting stories outside HN's couple of core grooves—I would love to hear about it. We rarely have enough of those.
What a nice surprise to see 'Poemas del río Wang' blog on HN. Top notch writing and they also do guided trips.
Can you link me to their guided trips? What exactly are they? I could not figure it out. A humanist society that translates book!?
A link to his upcoming Iran trip: http://riowang.blogspot.cz/2015/08/come-with-us-to-iran.html
Incidentally, I wanted to go on this trip, but as a US passport holder, I would not be free to go wherever I want without an Iranian-appointed guide on a limited itinerary (at least as I understand the situation).