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Essay / History and History of Iran - 1562
History/CustomsIran, also known as Persia, is a country in Western Asia. Although Iran is also known as Persia, it was not until 1935 that it adopted its current name. It is the second largest country in the Middle East, with an area of 1,648,195 km2. With more than 77 million inhabitants, it is the 17th most populous country in the world. It shares borders with Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the 1500s BC, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979, until the monarchy was overthrown. The Medes and Persians occupied Iran for the first time. However, the Persian king Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes and became the ruler of the Persian Empire. Its official language, Persian, is Indo-European. Although Iran adopted a different version of the Arabic alphabet, it refused to lose its own identity after the creation of the Arab Empire in the 7th century. Iran is home to one of the oldest major civilizations in the world, with historic settlements dating back to 4000 BCE. Iran's climate can be very extreme, ranging from subtropical to subpolar, due to the huge variations in altitude and precipitation. The Iranian nation is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world. Mesolithic and Upper Paleolithic populations occupied caves in the Elburz and Zagros Mountains, while the region's earliest civilizations descended from the Zagros Hills. Timeline – 550-330 BC: The Achaemenid dynasty rules the first Persian empire. rule of the Arsacid dynasty 15th century: competing Iranian, Turkish and Mongol dynasties, including the empire of Timur the Lame in eastern Iran 1828: ceded control of the Caucasus to Russia after the Second Russo-Persian War 1935: formerly known as Persian, I..... .middle of paper......a mixture of rice and roasted nuts and is traditionally served in many Iranian homes on the eve of the spring festival of Nowruz . Another dish eaten in Norwuz is mahi or pan-fried sea bass, typically from the Caspian Sea. It is usually seasoned with flour, salt, black pepper and saffron. The fish is eaten with the basmati sabzi polo rice dish. These two dishes, served together as sabzi polo mahi, are the Nowruz equivalent of Thanksgiving turkey and mashed potatoes. A third dish, kuku sabzi, combines even more fresh herbs and a blend of seasonings with the briny contents of the fish roe sac, ground nuts and just enough eggs to hold it all together, resembling a little to a frittata. Sabzi polo mahi, along with kuku sabzi, celebrate the renewed fertility of the natural world (symbolized by eggs, fish and fresh herbs) after a long winter..