The Company concluded an agreement with Shaikh Sa'don, the governor of Bushire in April 1763 and was granted a license three months later in which the company was given a monopoly on the import of woolen goods into
Persia. The agreement - subsequently approved personally by the ruler of
Persia, Karim Khan Zand - gave the Company favourable conditions for trade in the form of exemptions from export and import duties and protection for Company personnel and property.
So, when King Croesus was faced with the decision whether to invade
Persia or seek alliance with it, he asked the Oracle of Delphi what would happen if he invaded
Persia.
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Persia will feature a wide variety of international programming dubbed and/or subtitled in Farsi, including global films, television series and other entertainment shows.
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qajar
Persia, c.1760--c.1870
Aviva's reference to 3,000 years of history points also to the origins of the Jewish community in Iran, then known as
Persia. The peaks and valleys of Iran Jewish history date back to the late biblical times.
Many Iranians keep behaving as if they never forgot that it was Islam which, as one scholar from the central Iranian city of Yazd puts it, "destroyed
Persia's great Zoroastrian civilisation".
London-based
Persia International Bank has announced that it is implementing a new trade finance software.
But the work of British scientists mean that on Christmas Day Fusilier Stocker and fiancee
Persia Haghighi, 23, welcomed baby son Theo into the world.
Shaun Stocker, 25, thought his horrendous injuries meant he would never be able to have a child with fiancee
Persia Haghighi.
His fiancee
Persia Haghighi gave birth to their baby son Theo.
Volume 2 of the "
Persia Blues" series,
Persia Blues: Love and War is a black-and-white graphic novel about a woman's dual life.
Israel has issued a postage stamp with a picture of the clay cylinder issued by King Cyrus the Great of
Persia proclaiming human rights for all the peoples under his rule, including Jews.
The second movement came nearly 500 years later - with the rise of the Safavite Movement - which aimed to Shi'ise the whole of
Persia by force under the banner of Persian nationalism.
ADAPTED FROM NOAH GORDON'S 1987 BEST seller about a medieval doctor and his journey to
Persia, budgeted at $35m, with exteriors shot in Germany and Morocco, the period drama The Physician starring Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne has been nearly 25 years in the making.
