** Siege of Alexandria: Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant.

File: Mantes carpet Louvre OA6610 detail1. jpg | Detail of 16th century Persian carpet

The theatrics consisted of a Persian carpet, a grand piano spinning end-over-end, a rotating percussion platform, and a Hammond organ being up-ended and thrown around on stage to create feedback.

* Nain rug, name of a traditional pattern and design of Persian carpet

The Prince of the Indies obtains a magic crystal ball from the eye of a giant idol, which shows whatever he wants to see, while the Persian prince buys a flying carpet.

Examples of early Persian proto-science fiction include Al-Farabi's Opinions of the residents of a splendid city about a utopian society, Al-Qazwini's futuristic tale of Awaj bin Anfaq about a man who travelled to Earth from a distant planet, and elements such as the flying carpet.

Corner of a 16th century Persian carpet

The other sophisticated tradition was the Persian carpet which reached its peak in the 16th and early 17th century in works like the Ardabil Carpet and Coronation Carpet ; during this century the Ottoman and Mughal courts also began to sponsor the making in their domains of large formal carpets, evidently with the involvement of designers used to the latest court style in the general Persian tradition.

A Persian carpet covers almost the entire floor.

The Persian carpet is a part of Persian ( Iranian ) art and culture.

** Persian carpet sole, Pardachirus morrowi.

In the Persian Gulf region today, people usually refer to Persian as Ajami as they refer to Persian carpet ( Ajami carpet or sajjad al Ajami ), Persian cat ( Ajami cat ), and Persian emperors ( Ajami kings ).

The Battle of Marathon (, Machē tu Marathōnos ) took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece.

Pericles (, Periklēs, " surrounded by glory "; c. 495 – 429 BC ) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age — specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

Dari (, Darī, pronounced ) or Fārsī-ye Darī (, ) refers to the dialects of modern Persian spoken in Afghanistan, and is hence also known as Afghan Persian in some Western sources.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.

Xerxes II (, IPA :/ ˈzəːksiːz /-Xšayāršā ) was a Persian king and the son and successor of Artaxerxes I.

Darius I (, Old Persian: Dārayava ( h ) uš ; 550 – 486 BCE ) was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire.

The Battle of Salamis (, Naumachia tēs Salaminos ) was fought between an Alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in September 480 B. C. E., in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.

Artaxerxes I (, Old Persian, " whose rule ( xšaça < * xšaϑram ) is through arta ( truth )";) was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire of Iran from 465 BCE to 424 BCE.

Kian (, also Romanized as Kīān ; also known as Shahr-e Kīān ( Persian: شهر کیان ), Shahrak and Sharar ) is a city in the Central District of Shahrekord County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.

Bardiya (, Bardiya ;,, Greek: Smerdis ) ( possibly died 522 BCE ) was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings.

Khan / Kahn (, xaan ;, qaγan ; ; Azerbaijani: xan ; Ottoman: han ; ; Chinese: 可汗, kèhán ) Persian: خان, is an originally Mongolic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China.

Gardēz (, Persian: گردیز ) is the capital of the Paktia Province of Afghanistan.

The word ghee comes from (, ' sprinkled ') and has several names around the world ( Bengali: ঘ ী ghi, Punjabi: ਘ ਿ ਉ ghio, Hindi: घ ी ghī, Gujarati: ઘ ી ghi, Maithili / Nepali: घ ् य ू ghyū, Urdu: گھی ghī, ghiô, Marathi / Konkani: त ू प tūp, Kannada: ತ ು ಪ ್ ಪ tuppa, Malayalam: ന െ യ ് യ ് ney, Tamil: ந ெ ய ் ney, Telugu: న ె య ్ య ి neyyi,, Arabic: سمنة samna, Persian: روغن حیوانی roghan-e heivâni, Georgian: ერბო erbo,, Malay: minyak sapi, Hausa: man shanu ).

Moshe Katsav (, born Musa Qasab ( Persian: موسی قصاب )) is an Israeli politician.

Turkmen (, Cyrillic:, Persian: ), a Turkic language, is the national language of Turkmenistan.

Abū ‘ Īsá Muḥammad ibn ‛ Īsá as-Sulamī aḍ-Ḍarīr al-Būghī at-Tirmidhī (; ‎ 824 – 8 October 892 ) or Tirmizi (, Tirmizī ) was a Persian collector of hadith.

Scheherazade (), Šeherzada, Persian transliteration or (, šahr + zâd ) is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.

* Zerubbabel, son of Pedaiah, who was a son of Jehoiachin (, ) and is mentioned as a governor of the Persian Yehud Province.

Mardonius (, ; died 479 BC ) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC.

A samovar (, ; literally " self-boiler ", Persian: سماور, Turkish: semaver ),

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

" Alternately, the name may have derived from the Persian bālkāneh or bālākhāna, meaning " high, above, or proud house ," and brought to the region in the 11th and 12th centuries by Turkic tribes who applied it to the area.

When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

The main temple to Enki is called E-abzu, meaning " abzu temple " ( also E-en-gur-a, meaning " house of the subterranean waters ""), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.

After c. 500 BC the Persian term " Paradise " ( Hebrew פרדס, pardes ), meaning a royal garden or hunting-park, gradually became a synonym for Eden.

At its simplest and broadest level of meaning, The Histories is structured as a dynastic history of four Persian kings:

It is surmised that the language of Urdu ( literally meaning " horde " or " camp " in various Turkic dialects ) was born during the Delhi Sultanate period as a result of the intermingling of the local speakers of Sanskritic Prakrits with immigrants speaking Persian, Turkic, and Arabic under the Muslim rulers.

) The Persian word is ماه عسل mah e asal which has both the translations " honey moon " and " honey month " ( mah in Persian meaning both moon and month ).

Hari is mentioned in Sanskrit as yellow or golden color equivalent to Persian Zar meaning Gold ( yellow ).

In the context of the age and period it held the meaning of seeking or forming part of a cultural entity, that of iudea, the Greek derivative of Persian Yehud, and can be compared with hellenismos, meaning acceptance of Hellenic cultural norms ( the conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabeean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos ).

The Mewlānā festival is held over two weeks in December ; its culmination is on 17 December, the Urs of Mewlānā ( anniversary of Rumi's death ), called Šabe Arūs ( شب عروس ) ( Persian meaning " nuptial night "), the night of Rumi's union with God.

The Koh-i-Noor, meaning " Mountain of Light " in Persian language, also spelled Koh-i-noor, Kuh-e Nur or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105. 6 metric carats diamond, weighing 21. 6 grammes in the most recent cut state, and once the largest known diamond.

The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian, meaning " Ruler of Everywhere ".

Plums, apricots, dates, apples, grapes, and figs are the most frequently used fruits, either fresh or dried, in Turkish cuisine. ple, komposto ( compote ) or hoşaf ( from Persian khosh âb, literally meaning " nice water ") are among the main side dishes to meat or pilav.

In Persian culture the night starting winter is called Yalda ( meaning: birth ) and it has been celebrated for thousands of years.

Turandot is a Persian word and name meaning " the daughter of Turan ", Turan being a region of Central Asia which used to be part of the Persian Empire.

In Persian, the fairy tale is known as Turandokht, with " dokht " being a contraction for dokhtar ( meaning daughter ), and both the " kh " and " t " are clearly pronounced.