The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

Egypt, the Arabian peninsula, Persia, India, and the Philippines were hit hardest during these epidemics, while other areas, like Germany in 1892 and Naples from 1910 – 1911, experienced severe outbreaks.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture.

Some Kuwaitis are originally from Persia and other non-Arab countries, however, they assimilated with the Arabs of Kuwait after acquiring Kuwaiti citizenship and are therefore Arabized Arabs.

It also reflected the difficulties imposed on the Empire by the need to support two separate fronts: one against the Austrians ( see: Ottoman wars in Europe ), and the other against a rival Islamic state, the Safavids of Persia ( see: Ottoman wars in Near East ).

From Persia, in medieval times polo spread to the Byzantines ( who called it tzykanion ), and after the Muslim conquests to the Ayyubid and Mameluke dynasties of Egypt and the Levant, whose elites favoured it above all other sports.

Later on Polo was passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, where it was very popular during the Tang Dynasty and frequently depicted in paintings and statues.

Max Müller characterized many other cultures around the world, including Egypt, Persia, and India, as having a similar power structure at this point in history.

The earliest evidence of curved swords, or scimitars ( and other regional variants as the Arabian saif, the Persian shamshir and the Turkic kilij ) is from the 9th century, when it was used among soldiers in the Khurasan region of Persia.

The four Tetrarchs based themselves not at Rome but in other cities closer to the frontiers, mainly intended as headquarters for the defence of the Empire against bordering rivals ( notably Sassanian Persia ) and barbarians ( mainly Germanic, and an endless procession from the eastern steppe ; many nomadic or elsewhere chased tribes ) at the Rhine and Danube.

* After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in 502 BC ( on behalf of the Persians ), Aristagoras, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians.

In later Classical times, Sparta along with Athens, Thebes, and Persia had been the main powers fighting for supremacy against each other.

Originally the church of Sassanid Persia, the Church of the East declared itself independent of other churches in 424 and over the next century became affiliated with Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, which had been declared heretical in the Roman Empire.

After Darius III of Persia had been defeated by Alexander the Great, the satrap of Bactria, Bessus attempted to organize a national resistance but was captured by other warlords and delivered to Alexander.

They henceforth became the dependent allies of Athens ( see Delian League ), though still retaining their autonomy, which they preserved until the peace of Antalcidas in 387 BC once more placed them as well as the other Greek cities in Asia under the nominal dominion of Persia.

An earlier video game series based on the Assassins is the Exile series of action role-playing games, as well as assassins appearing in other video games like Dante's Inferno and the Prince of Persia series.

He later proclaimed himself, in the presence of the Heir to the Throne of Persia and other notables, to be the Promised One or Qá ' im to Shí ' a Muslims.

It is said to have travelled from Persia to England less than two hundred years ago and to have spread from thence to other countries visited by English ships.

Conversely, Eldad ha-Dani argued that the tribe of Simeon had become quite powerful, taking tribute from 25 other kingdoms, some of which were Arabians ; though he names their location, surviving versions of his manuscripts differ as to whether it was the land of the Khazars or of the Chaldeans-Chaldeans would be an anachronism, though it could possibly refer to Buyid Dynasty Persia.

The Imperial Crown Jewels of Iran ( alternatively known as the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia ) includes several elaborate Crowns and decorative Thrones, 30 tiaras and numerous aigrettes, a dozen jewel laden swords and shields, a vast amount of precious unset gemstones, numerous plates and other dining services cast in precious metals and encrusted with gems and several other more unique items, such as a gemstone globe, collected by the Iranian monarchy during its 2, 500 year existence.

In 387 BC Klazomenai and other cities in Asia were taken over by Persia, but the city continued to issue its own coins.

At the peace of Antalcidas ( 387 BC ), like the other Greek cities in Asia, it was made over to Persia.

The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time.

They often provided the naval forces of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and their heartland in the Levant was still dominated by powers rooted east in Mesopotamia or Persia.

The prosperity of Zubarah, which is now in modern Qatar, had also brought it to the attention of the two main powers at the time, Persia and the Oman, which were presumably sympathetic to Sheikh Nasr ’ s ambitions.

Zubara's emerging position as a flourished as a pearling centre and trading port had brought it to the attention of the two main regional powers, Persia and Oman.

His refusal threatened to damage British attempts to gain influence in Persia, but Edward resented his ministers ' attempts to reduce the King's traditional powers.

The European opinion changed in the Napoleonic era, when Persia was an ally of the Western powers eager to make the Ottoman Sultan release his hold on various ( mainly Christian ) European parts of the Ottoman Empire, and western ( Christian ) emperors had obtained the Ottoman acknowledgement that their western imperial styles were to be rendered in Turkish as padishah.

During the era of Ayuka Khan, the Oirats rose to political and military prominence as the Tsarist government sought the increased use of Oirat cavalry in support of its military campaigns against the Muslim powers in the south, such as Persia, the Ottoman Empire, the Nogays and the Kuban Tatars and Crimean Khanate.

On 8 October, after the occupation of Persia by the Allies and after the new Persian government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi severed diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, al-Husseini was taken under Italian protection and conveyed through Turkey to Axis Europe in an operation organized by Italian Military Intelligence ( Servizio Informazioni Militari, or SIM ).

The kingdom's area, the upper course of the Euphrates, became a traditional battleground for the powers that ruled Asia Minor, Persia, Syria, and Armenia.

The ' unequal treaties ' signed by the Qing dynasty in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Persia, Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan and other countries in the nineteenth century included payments of indemnities to the victorious Western powers, mainly United Kingdom, France and Russia, and later Japan.

The same year he was accused of peculation and other offences to the emperor, who caned him severely and deprived him of his plenipotentiary powers, despite his undeniable services in Persia, but for which Peter could never have emerged so triumphantly from the difficult Persian war of 1722-1723.

The idea of a reformed Persian state was not what these powers had in mind ; they enjoyed both stability and control in Persia and planned to keep it that way.

Most serious of all, the hope that the Constitutional Revolution would inaugurate a new era of independence from the great powers ended when, under the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907, Britain and Russia agreed to divide Persia into spheres of influence.

At the same time, Egypt is facing prospective peril at the hands of rising powers to the north — Assyria and Persia.

Persia was on shaky financial footing at the time due to heavy debts accumulated by the Qajars, the Persian royal family, to the two colonial powers of Great Britain and Russia in Iran.

The hiring of Shuster and his American associates as financial advisors concerned the imperial powers, who sought to keep Persia from independent influences and dampen national feeling.

* In the Prince of Persia trilogy, there is a blade called the Dagger of Time, which gives its wielder many time-based powers.

This new perspective was emphasized by Joseph Stalin, beginning to emerge over the Comintern's Grigory Zinoviev as top leader of the USSR, who in early July 1925 agreed with a reporter for the Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichi Shimbun that the revolutionary movement in China, India, Persia, Egypt and " other Eastern countries " were growing and that " the time is drawing near when the Western powers will have to bury themselves in the grave they have dug for themselves in the East.