The statuette was created by sculptor Roumanbona M ' Divani.

The name Pathan in Bihar now refers to two distinct but related communities, the Nasli ( from the Arabic word nasl meaining racial or by birth ) and Divani ( from the Arabic word diwan meaning a royal court ).

The country's most famous performers are Mohammed Al Muhairi ( better known as Mehad Hamad ), Ahlam Ali Al Shamsi ( the first female pop star in the Persian Gulf ), Abdel Moniem Al Saleh ( who is renowned for his songwriting, music production and singing, and for being the first musician based in the UAE to blend Indian, Spanish and Arabic music ), Aitha Al Menhali, and Hussain Al Jasmi.

* The Kazim Bridge in the village of Yukhari Askipara, allegedly built during the reign of Shamsi Khan.

The names of two 8th-century BCE queens, Shamsi and Zabibei, are recorded.

Samsi ( also Shamsi ) was an Arab queen who reigned in the 8th century BCE.

Sandhu Kainth, Bajwa, Warraich, Waince, Durrani, Cheema, Chattha, saroya Sahi, Janjua, Jat, Malik, Rajput, Mughal, Shiekh, Rajoka, Khichi, Khokhar, Haral, Gujar, Jats, Alawi, Ansari, Wahla, Syed, Arain, Mian, Willoun, Shamsi, Ghumman, And Malik are the major castes in Chak Jhumra City.

In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.

Ibn Battuta joined the royal caravan for a while, then turned north on the Silk Road to Tabriz, the first major city in the region to open its gates to the Mongols and by then an important trading centre as most of its nearby rivals had been razed by the Mongol invaders.

** Mírzá ' Alí-Muhammad, known as the Báb, is executed by a firing squad in Tabriz, Persia for claiming to be a prophet.

Carrying little or no luggage, and with small amounts of cash, almost all followed the same route, hitch-hiking across Europe to Athens and on to Istanbul, then by train through central Turkey via Erzurum, continuing by bus into Iran, via Tabriz and Tehran to Mashhad, across the Afghan border into Herat, through southern Afghanistan via Kandahar to Kabul, over the Khyber Pass into Pakistan, via Rawalpindi and Lahore to the Indian frontier.

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

Metrinko also was the hero ( and dedicatee ) of the book Razi Crossing, by Tom Burchill, when he saved a number of westerners ' lives during a revolutionary uprising in Tabriz, Iran in 1978.

Classical literature in Azerbaijani was formed in 14th century based on the various Early Middle Ages dialects of Tabriz and Shirvan ( these dialects were used by classical Azerbaijani writers Nasimi, Fuzuli, and Khatai ).

Urged on from place to place by their Tatar guide, they rode from Tabriz to Erivan, from Erivan to Kars, and from Kars to Erzurum.

On 6 November 1605 the Iranians led by Abbas scored a decisive victory over the Ottomans at Sufiyan, near Tabriz.

In 1618, an Ottoman army of 50, 000 led by the grand vizier, invaded and easily seized Tabriz.

It encompasses the greater part of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan on an area roughly outlined by the quadrangle formed by the cities of Tabriz, Shiraz, Peshawar and Quetta

In Tabriz, prolonged efforts were made to preserve bast at various mosques in the city, and recourse was even had to the alleged miracle of a cow that twice escaped the slaughterhouse by running into the shrine known as Boqʿa-ye Saheb-al-amr.

He passed the summer of 1667 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidental pistol-shot ; and in October started for Tabriz, but died on the way at Miyana on the November 28, 1667.

The town of Ilkhichi ( İlxıçı ), which is located 87 km south west of Tabriz is almost entirely populated by Alevis.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Khiabani re-established the Democrat Party of Tabriz after being banned for five years, and published the Tajaddod newspaper, the official organ of the party, edited by his supporter Taqi Rafat.

However, they rebelled against the Jalayirids, and secured their independence from the dynasty with the conquest of Tabriz by Qara Yusuf.

He gathered an army and by 1406 had taken back Tabriz.

In the span of the 17th century and 18th century, Fizuli's unique genres as well Ashik poetry were taken up by prominent poets and writers such as Qovsi of Tabriz, Shah Abbas Sani, Agha Mesih Shirvani, Nishat, Molla Vali Vidadi, Molla Panah Vagif, Amani, Zafar and others.

After being conquered by Timur in the 14th century, Tabriz became an important provincial capital of the Timurid empire.

She published two more volumes, The Wall and The Rebellion before traveling to Tabriz to make a film about Iranians affected by leprosy.

The eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical was published in Tiflis ( from 1906 to 1917 ), Tabriz ( in 1921 ) and Baku ( from 1922 to 1931 ) in the Azeri and occasionally Russian languages.

This poem, published in Tabriz in 1954 and written in colloquial Azerbaijani, became popular among Iranians and the people of Azerbaijan.

* Preface and backcover text from Samad Behrangi, Talkhoon va Chand Ghesse-ye Digar ( Talkhoon and other stories ), Behrangi Publishings, Tabriz, 1998, ISBN 964-90517-2-4.

He visited Muslim principalities in Syria and representatives of the Nestorian and Jacobite churches in Persia, finally delivering the papal correspondence to a Mongol general near Tabriz.

* 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3, 000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

* 1850 – The Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.

* 1780 – An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7. 7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80, 000 people and causing major damage.

Militarily, Murad IV's reign is most notable for the war against Persia in which Ottoman forces invaded Azerbaijan, occupied Revan, Tabriz and Hamadan, and recaptured Baghdad in 1638.

As a result, in 1533, Suleiman ordered his Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha to lead an army into Asia where he retook Bitlis and occupied Tabriz without resistance.

Suleiman abandoned the campaign with temporary Ottoman gains in Tabriz and the Urmia region, a lasting presence in the province of Van, and some forts in Georgia.

It included the return of Tabriz, but secured Baghdad, lower Mesopotamia, the mouths of the river Euphrates and Tigris, as well as part of the Persian Gulf.

* May 15 – Students of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz ; the army stops the riot.

The western Ilkhanate established a capital at Tabriz, in present-day Iran.

In a great final burst, the brothers led an army marshaled throughout Tamar's possessions and vassal territories in a march, through Nakhchivan and Julfa, to Marand, Tabriz, and Qazvin in northern Iran, pillaging several settlements on their way.

* September 5 – Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.

* July – Ismail I is enthroned as Shah of Azerbaijan, choosing Tabriz as his capital, founding the Safavid dynasty in northern Iran.

Merchants, artisans, and scholars were transported to Istanbul from Tabriz and Cairo under Selim I ( d. 1520 ).

Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de ' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de ' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz, between 1325 – 1354.

After spending several months in a camp outside Tehran, and before the Báb could meet the Shah, the Prime Minister sent the Báb to Tabriz in the northwestern corner of the country, and later Maku and Chihriq, where he was confined.

During the same month the Báb was brought to trial in Tabriz and made his claim to be the Mahdi public to the Crown Prince and the Shi ' a clergy.