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    of its cognates) was historically the common name used for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah officially asked foreign delegates to use the Persian...
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  • calendar in 503 BC and afterwards, the first day of the year (1 Farvardin=Nowruz) slipped against the vernal equinox at the rate of approximately one day...
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    people and leaders of Iran as they celebrate their New Year's holiday, Nowruz". The Guardian. London. March 20, 2013. Archived from the original on September...
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  • calendar. The first day of the early implementation of the calendar year was Nowruz, while the intercalary days were assigned differently than the later Baháʼí...
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    ethnicities. The event takes place on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz. Loosely translated as Wednesday Light, from the word sur, which means light...
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    "Registration and Taxation of Slave Sales in Achaemenid Babylonia". Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie. 79: 80–101. doi:10...
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    Marchesi, and Gianni, "The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 112, no. 1, pp...
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    undergo a coronation once again. Thus, in 20 March 1668, simultaneously with Nowruz, he was crowned king with a new name, Suleiman I. After his second coronation...
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    power competition between Iran and Turkey: competing claims over Rumi and Nowruz". International Journal of Cultural Policy: 1–18. doi:10.1080/10286632.2023...
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    Weisehöfer, Josef (ed.), Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse, Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, vol. 122 (in German), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner,...
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