The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas , a young Persian from an Aristocracy family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, ...
THE PERSIAN (Alpha Indi). Stars are named by many cultures in many languages. These pages use star names appropriate to the "western" constellations, which were actually born in the ancient lands of the middle east.
The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the old Persian homeland, and beyond in Western Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Today the nation of Persia is known primarily as Iran.
The Persians called it Ser or Shir; the Turks, Artan; the Syrians, Aryo; the Jews, Arye; and the Babylonians, Aru — all meaning a lion.
The Persian astronomer, AbÅ" RayhÄn al-BÄ"rÅ"nÄ" (973-1048), proposed the Milky Way galaxy to be a collection of countless nebulous stars.
The Persians have regarded Draco as a man-eating serpent called 'Azhdeha'.
In early Hindu worship, Draco is given the form of an alligator known as 'Shi-shu-mara'.
The Persian year itself has 12 months--the first 6 have 31 days, the next 5 have 30 days, and the last has 28 or 29, depending on whether the year is or isn't a leap year. Each month corresponds to a sign of the zodiac.
The Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Persians all agreed on this constellaton's name of the Ram. In Greek mythology, the story of the Ram begins in Thessaly.
One of the most spectacular examples of anticlinal fold structures lie on the north shore of the Strait of Homuz in the Persian Gulf.
The saltiest water is in the Red Sea and in the Persian Gulf, which have a salinity of about 40 o/oo (due to very high evaporation rates and low fresh water influx).
The Peacock Throne of the Persian Shahs can be found in Tehran's Gulistan Square.
in the south central part (21:17:15.3-38:52:2.5, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Microscopium, the Microscope -- south of Alpha Microscopii, southwest of Gamma Microscopii, northwest of Theta1 Microscopii, and north of Zeta and Alpha Indi (The Persian).
The name of this star, Tarazed, comes from the Persian name for the constellation of Aquila, Shahin tara zed, "The Star-striking Falcon."
The The Bright Star Catalog also gives the name Reda for this star.
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The cluster is also known as Al Sufi's Cluster, after the Persian astronomer Al Sufi, who discovered the cluster in the 10th century. Brocchi's Cluster contains an asterism called the Coathanger, formed by the 10 brightest stars in the group.
evection: a small irregularity in the orbit of the moon, first discovered in the 10th century by the Persian Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani and, independently, by Tycho Brahe.
Samarkand was known as Marakanda during the 4th century BC, and served as the capitol of Sogdiana. As Sogdiana was a semi-autonomous state within the Persian Empire and Marakanda was a city of much repute, ...
He was an adherent of the aristocracy, and when, after the defeat of the Persians, the democratic party came into power, he withdrew in ill-humor to a secluded estate in the country, and gave himself up entirely to his studies.
Perseus swooped down, killed the monster with his sword, released the swooning girl to the enthusiastic applause of the onlookers and claimed her for his bride. Andromeda later bore Perseus six children including Perses, ancestor of the Persians, ...
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