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Achaemenid. The Palace of Darius in Susa was a palace complex that was built at the site of Susa, Iran, during the reign of Darius I over the Achaemenid Empire. The construction was conducted parallel to that of Persepolis. Manpower and raw materials from various parts of the Achaemenid Empire contributed to its construction.
History of Iran. The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf ...
The locality presumably takes its name from the creek, which in turn was named after James Ivory and Francis Jeffrey Ivory, two graziers who operated the Eskdale pastoral run. Francis Jeffrey was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Queensland Legislative Council. Ivory's Creek Provisional School opened circa 1894.
China National Petroleum Corporation ( PetroChina) Jinzhou Petrochemical Refinery, 112,000 bbl/day. WEPEC Dalain Refinery, 200,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Jinan Company, 21,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Qilu Company Refinery, 195,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao Oil Refinery, 220,000 bbl/day.
In 1979, Joe and Kathleen headed to Iran. They experienced six months of orientation to the culture in Washington. Luckily, Farsi, the primary language of Iran, is somewhat similar to Arabic.
1954,0508.1. The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the Assyrian city of Nimrud (in modern Ninawa in Iraq) during the 19th and 20th centuries. The ivories mostly originated outside Mesopotamia and are thought to have been made in the ...
Iran, [ a] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( IRI ), [ b] also known as Persia, [ c] is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
168,718 km 2 (65,142 sq mi) Geographically, the country of Iran is located in West Asia and borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman. Topographically, it is predominantly located on the Persian Plateau. Its mountains have impacted both the political and the economic history of the country for several centuries.