After arriving in Bombay in February 1846, the Persian government demanded his extradition from India.

The British refused and only agreed to transfer Hasan Ali Shah ’ s residence to Calcutta, where it would be more difficult for him to launch new attacks against the Persian government.

* 1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.

* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.

* 1844 – Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government.

He traveled on a Persian passport because he had given up writing as well as speaking and would not sign the forms required by the British government of India.

Herodotus, for example, wrote his version of history to gather political support for the Greek system of government over the aggressive Persian despot.

It is the term officially recognized and promoted in 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language.

The Bermuda government is unlikely to be able to provide naval protection to oil tankers plying the Persian Gulf, or other potentially dangerous waters.

For closer attention to their conquered, the Persian government preferred to establish a client state, setting up a monarchy under their control.

This may have been a result of the anti-Shah bias in BBC Radio's influential Persian broadcasts into Iran: a BBC report of 23 March 2009 explains that many in Iran saw the broadcaster and the government as one, and interpreted the bias for Khomeini as evidence of weakening British government support for the Shah.

This community, known as Huwalas, while not at all sympathetic to the theocratic government in Tehran, tend to have extensive business interests on both sides of the Persian Gulf and have looked forward to the prospect of growing Iran-Bahrain trade.

A point reflected upon with some irony by Shia Bahraini writer, Tawfik Al-Rayyash, who in reference to the government / civil society ’ s reaction to Sharaitmadari's remarks said: " I ask myself why this outcry was led by people who, when they enter their homes or meet their families, change their language from Arabic to Persian.

The latter, the " books and papers " of the house of Murashu, commercial agents of the government, throw light on the condition of the city and the administration of the country in the Persian period, the 5th century BC.

Disagreements between the Persian court and the British government ended in the departure of the British officers.

The British government was already making agreements with local sheikhs / tribal leaders along the Persian Gulf coast to this end.

British and Indian troops were in Persia protecting the oilfields at Abadan and watching the Afghan frontier – Curzon believed that British economic and military aid, sent via India, could prop up the Persian government and make her a British client state.

Initially, King Manuel I of Portugal tried a power distribution with three governors in different areas of jurisdiction: a government covering the area and possessions in East Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, overseeing up Cambay ( Gujarat ); a second one ruling the possessions in India ( Hindustan ) and Ceylon, and a third one from Malacca to the Far East .< ref > O Secretário dos despachos e coisas da Índia pero d ´ Alcáçova Carneiro, p. 65, Maria Cecília Costa Veiga de Albuquerque Ramos, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009 ( In Portuguese ) < http :// repositorio. ul. pt / bitstream / 10451 / 3387 / 1 / ulfl080844_tm. pdf ></ ref > However the post was centered by governor Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1509 – 1515 ), who became plenipotentiary, and remained so.

The northern part of Luristan, formerly known as Lurikuchik (' Little Luristan '), was governed by independent princes of the Khurshidi dynasty, styled atabegs, from the beginning of the 17th century when the last atabeg, Shah Verdi Khan, was removed by Persian Shah Abbas I and the government of the province given to Husain Khan, the chief of a rival tribe.

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 British government announced a de facto blockade, reinforced its naval force in the Persian Gulf and lodged complaints against Iran before the United Nations Security Council.

or in Arabic script ( Persian, Urdu and Arabic ); ; sometimes spelled vazir, vizir, vasir, wazir, vesir, or vezir ) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in an Islamic government.

In Iran ( Persia ) the ministers of government are called Vazīr in Persian ( e. g. foreign / health Vazīr ), and prime minister of state before the removal of the post, was called as Nokhost Vazīr.

He also insisted that foreign advisors be employed by the Persian government, so that they would not be answerable to foreign powers.

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.

The Delian League, founded about 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

All of Greece except the Peloponnesus thus having fallen into Persian hands, the Persians then seeking to destroy the Allied navy once and for all, suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Salamis.

The following year, 479 BC, the Allies assembled the largest Greek army yet seen and defeated the Persian invasion force at the Battle of Plataea, ending the invasion and the threat to Greece.

* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah ( northern Syria ).

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.

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ( Torah ).

Some writing systems of the world, notably the Arabic and Hebrew scripts, and derived systems such as the Urdu, Persian, Yiddish, Jawi, and Ladino scripts, are written in a form known as right-to-left ( RTL ), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side.

Once the Ionian revolt was finally crushed by the Persian victory at the Battle of Lade, Darius began plans to subjugate Greece.

The defeat at Marathon marked the end of the first Persian invasion of Greece, and the Persian force retreated to Asia.

The Persian naval victory at the Battle of Lade ( 494 BC ) all but ended the Ionian Revolt, and by 493 BC, the last hold-outs were vanquished by the Persian fleet.

A picture reconstructing the beached Persian ships at Marathon before the battle.

The Athenian strategy was therefore to keep the Persian army pinned down at Marathon, blocking both exits from the plain, and thus preventing themselves from being outmaneuvered.

The Persian infantry was evidently lightly armoured, and no match for hoplites in a head-on confrontation ( as would be demonstrated at the later battles of Thermopylae and Plataea.

) Since the Athenians seem to have taken up a strong defensive position at Marathon, the Persian hesitance was probably a reluctance to attack the Athenians head-on.

It is therefore probable that this arrangement was made, possibly at the last moment, so that the Athenian line was as long as the Persian line, and would not therefore be outflanked.

The epic second Persian invasion of Greece finally began in 480 BC, and the Persians met with initial success at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium.

The defeat at Marathon barely touched the vast resources of the Persian empire, yet for the Greeks it was an enormously significant victory.

Then, following the battle, the Athenian army marched the 40 ( 25 miles ) or so kilometers back to Athens at a very high pace ( considering the quantity of armour, and the fatigue after the battle ), in order to head off the Persian force sailing around Cape Sounion.