It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

Abbas II was the great-great-grandson of Muhammad Ali,

Prince, Field-Marshal Abbas Mirza ( عباس میرزا in Persian ) born Navaa village ( August 26, 1789 – October 25, 1833 ), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia.

Abbas was an intelligent prince, possessed some literary taste, and is noteworthy on account of the comparative simplicity of his life.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

Furthermore, it was Abbas Mirza who first dispatched Iranian students to Europe for a western education.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

However, he added that there was no other way but to sit down and strike a deal, calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations.

The only major reversal to the expansion came in 1622 when Shahanshah Abbas, the Safavid Emperor of Persia, captured Kandahar while Jahangir was battling his rebellious son, Khurram in Hindustan.

Jahangir's relationship with other rulers of the time is one that was well documented by Sir Thomas Roe, especially his relationship with the Persian King, Shah Abbas.

Furthermore, Abbas had, for many years, been trying to recover the city of Kandahar, which Jahangir was not keen to part with, especially to this king whom he did not particularly care for, despite seeing him as an equal.

Though he claims he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack.

Abu Daoud believes that if the Israelis knew that Mahmoud Abbas was the financier of the operation, the 1993 Oslo Accords wouldn't have been achieved, during which Mahmoud Abbas was seen in photo ops at the White House.

He was succeeded by Mahmoud Abbas ( also known as Abu Mazen ).

Naqsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan is in fact a polo field which was built by king Abbas I in 17th century.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

Abu Bakr recommended toppling a wall on the evil-doer, or else burning alive, while Ali bin Abi Talib ordered death by stoning for one " luti " and had another thrown head-first from the top of a minaret — according to Ibn Abbas, this last punishment must be followed by stoning.

The Abbasid caliphs were Arabs descended from Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, one of the youngest uncles of Muhammad, because of which they considered themselves the true successor of Muhammad as opposed to the Umayyads.

There were other compact settlements in Khorasan at Abbas Abad ( half-way between Shahrood and Sabzevar where there remained only one old woman who remembered Georgian in 1934 ), Mazandaran at Behshahr and Farah Abad, Gilan, Isfahan Province at Najafabad, Badrud, Rahmatabad, Yazdanshahr and Amir Abad.

In 2003, in one of his most famous protests, Kaurismäki boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival as a show of solidarity with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami who was not given a US visa in time for the festival.

Abbas remains as the president even though his one year extended term has expired.

In 1587, one of the Qizilbash leaders, Murshid Qoli Khan, overthrew Shah Mohammed in a coup and placed the 16-year-old Abbas on the throne.

Abbas was born in Herat ( now in Afghanistan, then one of the two chief cities of Khorasan ) to the royal prince Mohammed Khodabanda and his wife Khayr al-Nisa Begum ( known as " Mahd-i Ulya "), the daughter of the governor of Mazandaran province, who claimed descent from the fourth Shi ' a Imam Zayn al-Abidin.

Tradition dictated that at least one prince of the royal blood should reside in Khorasan, so Tahmasp made Abbas nominal governor of the province, despite his young age, and Abbas was left behind in Herat.

At the age of 14, Abbas had come under the power of Murshid Qoli Khan, one of the leaders of the Qizilbash in Khorasan.

Abbas set off to besiege Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and one of the main Turkish strongholds in the Caucasus.

Other nearby villages include Bradford Abbas, Thornford Corscombe, Montacute ( where one will find Montacute House ), and Pendomer.

Although various alams and banners were employed by the Safavids ( especially during the reign of the first two kings ), by the time of Shah Abbas I the Lion and Sun symbol had become one of the most popular emblems of Iran.

The infantry were reinforced by one brigade of the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division commanded by Eastern Force ; the other brigade of this division remaining in position at Sheikh Abbas to secure the southern end of the mounted screen.

The thesis of 1982 doctoral dissertation of Mahmoud Abbas, a co-founder of Fatah and one of the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization who earned his Ph. D. in history at the Oriental College in Moscow, was " The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement ".

In all, he played 455 first-class matches, amassing 34, 346 runs at 49. 70, including 103 centuries — making him one of a select few to score a " century of centuries ", one of only four non-English cricketers to do so ( the others being Donald Bradman, Zaheer Abbas and Viv Richards ).

File: Grave Fatema ( single one ) and other Imams. JPG | Grave of Fatema ( single grave in front ), and Imam Hasan, Ali, Baqir and Jafar ( 2nd row left to right, 4 graves side by side ), and Abbas ibn Abd-al-Muttalib ( single grave at right ), at Baqi Medina.

At one time, Cerne Abbas had 14 public houses, serving visitors and a population of about 1, 500.

Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani ( Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی ) ( born 24 July 1947, Sialkot ), popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest batsman produced by that country.

Abbas, fondly called the " Run Machine ", also had great success in first-class cricket, and is the only Asian batsman to have scored one hundred first class centuries.

The Abbasid caliphate was founded by the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ( 566-653 ), in Kufa in 750 CE and shifted its capital in 762 to Baghdad.

" His father, Muhammad, was reputedly a great-grandson of Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, the youngest uncle of Mohammad ; his mother, as described in the 14th century Moorish historian Ali Ibn-Abd Allah's Rawd al-Qirtas was a " Berber woman given to his father.

The other members of his group were Shakir Abdullah Radhil, known as " Faisal ", Oan's second-in-command who also claimed to have been tortured by SAVAK ; Shakir Sultan Said, or " Hassan "; Themir Moammed Hussein, or Abbas ; Fowzi Badavi Nejad, or " Ali "; and Makki Hanoun Ali, the youngest of the group, who went by the name of " Makki ".

" The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby " is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator.

The Abbasid caliphate was founded by the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, in Harran in 750 CE and shifted its capital in 762 to Baghdad.