A website dedicated to the beautiful Iran and its civilisation
Iranology
Before you visit the website...
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Did you know?
Iran has about 10,000 years of history including at least 7,000 years history of urbanisation according to the archaelogical evidences.
Iran is one of the most ancient countries in the world which has survived many outsiders invasions and maintained the concepts of its heritage, language and culture.
Tehran has been the capital of Iran only since 1796. Before that, many other cities had been the capital of the country.
Persian, which is a Western Iranian language, is the official language in Iran. However, there are many people in Iran who speak in other Western Iranian languages, like Kurdish, Luri, Balochi, etc, and non-Iranian languages, like Azeri and Arabic.
Map of Iran
Unity in diversity
Iran's civilisation and culture has become imbued and infused with humanitarianism, respect for the life, belief and faith of others, propagation of tolerance and compromise and avoidance of violence, bloodshed and war. The luminaries of Iranian literature, in particular our Gnostic literature, from Hafiz, Rumi and Attar to Saadi, Sanaei, Naser Khosrow and Nezami, are emissaries of this humanitarian culture...
