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The Turanians stayed in Zabolestan until they had eaten everything there was and destroyed whatever they could—out of ignorance and merely for a moment’s amusement. Then they were struck by famine and resolved to head west to plunder the Iranian cities in that direction; but winter overtook them, and they […]
The new capital of Iran was preferable to Sialk in every respect, except that it lay on the path of the Turanians. The inhabitants by Lake “Hamun,” when they realized that the Iran-ban was moving the capital to their land, were very pleased and regarded that event as one of […]
The “Central Iranian Sea” is a shorthand for the superposition of several inland lakes and playas at the heart of the Iranian Plateau (the Namak Lake basin, Hoz-e Soltan, Dasht-e Kavir, etc.). During the colder, wetter phases of the Quaternary these water bodies expanded; during the warmer phases of the […]
Biography: Family and Education Hasan Pirnia (1250–1314 SH / 1871–1935 CE), born in Na’in, was the son of Mirza Nasrollah Khan Moshir al-Dowleh, the first prime minister (ra’is al-wozara) of the Constitutional era. Hasan completed his early schooling in Iran, then went to Moscow for military and legal studies: he […]
The Iran-ban’s husband beheld a vast lake and saw that forests surrounded it, and that along part of its shores people were sowing wheat. Zab, who had lost Iran’s primordial paradise, when he saw that great lake and the forests, realized he had once more found a paradise; he thought […]