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A quote from Cyrus the great:

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Some insight into how great a leader Cyrus was:

9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great

And finally my favourite: his quote on the wall of his burial site:

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

At the pick of the greatness, he was under no delusion that what he created will last for ever.

A lesson for those who think that today's superpowers will remain so forever!
 
If i am not mistaken then this must be the long lost tomb of Cyrus the Great:-).He was the first foreigner to invade India and won the entire Gandhara province(Present day parts of Afganistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa):)

Gandhara in present day part ( countries ) of Pakistan and Afghanistan. If you define in terms of ( provinces ) then you say present day " Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Nangarhar, Kabul" Most of Gandhara was in Pakistan. It began near present day capitalof Pakistan Islamabad to Kabul in Afghanistan. Apologies to my friend. Indian's trying to delete Pakistan again.

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Nice thread

Persians and Indians had one of the largest empires both contributed much to the humanity from Arts to Science,the world shall see our Might once again.

Notice the similarity between Mauryan (3rd B.C) and Achaemenid empire pillars this was our architectural prowess thousands of years ago.

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PS - AHURA MAZDA protect us
 
World's greatest Empires by percent of population:

1. Achaemenid Empire- 44.48 %

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2. Mauryan Empire- 43.30 %

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3. Tang Dynasty- 38.09 %

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4. Sasanian Empire- 38.00 %

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5. Qing Dynasty- 36.60 %

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This is kind of misleading, although the Archaemenid held 44.48% world population during it's Reign, it only had a maximum population of approximately 50 million people. Whereas the Qing Dynasty while only having 36.6% of the world population during it's reign, it had a maximum population of approximately 432 million.

List of largest empires
 
This is kind of misleading, although the Archaemenid held 44.48% world population during it's Reign, it only had a maximum population of approximately 50 million people. Whereas the Qing Dynasty while only having 36.6% of the world population during it's reign, it had a maximum population of approximately 432 million.

List of largest empires
I'm not sure why you consider it misleading?

It is about fraction of world population not about comparing the number of people.

When the population of whole human kind was only 112 million, almost 50 million of them were living in Iran. It is as if 3 billion people in today's world live in only one country. That country can control the world.

This fact has actually been recorded in Guinness book of records.
 
When the population of whole human kind was only 112 million, almost 50 million of them were living in Iran. It is as if 3 billion people in today's world live in only one country. That country can control the world.
It's listing the percentages without reference to the total world population.
 
Tigranes the Great of Armenia from the Artaxiad dynasty.

According to Encyclopaedia Iranica, Artaxiad dynasty has now been identified as a branch of the earlier Eruandid dynasty of Iranian origin attested as ruling in Armenia from at least the 5th century B.C.E.

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Ayyubids (kurdish)
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All gone.

Haha. Still, ask yourself. Which country is most influential in the region. It aint you camel jerkers. With your so called 'internal Arab affairs'. Yah. The Turks showed you how 'internal' those affairs were for centuries. As have the Iranians. If it wasn't for the genocidal arabs after mohamed, you'd all be Yemenis still.
 
Ayyubid Kurd Empire was the last empire that ruled Hijaz and north Africa before Turks.

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Ayyubid dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We are seeing the '1000' years ruling of Arabs in MENA :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: The 750 billions Saudis ruled themselves for x Hexa years :partay: :lol: :lol: :lol: Those barefoot bedouin wannabe Jews :lol: :lol: :lol: :partay: :partay: :partay: :partay: These days every barefoot... kid that launches interner becomes super Arab empire :lol: :rofl:
 
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You are right. Despite Persian nationalists focus on the Arab conquest and rule of Persia, they seem to overlook the fact that collective groups of Turkic tribes have ruled Persia for nearly 1000 years.

You dumb Saudi, why do you pollute this thread with your less than human presence? Turks and Persians are about 200000 years ahead of you.
 
Qarmatians (purple colour)

Abū-Saʿīd Hasan ibn Bahrām Jannābī (Persian: ابوسعید حسن بن بهرام جنّابی(گناوه‌ای)‎, Arabic: ابوسعید حسن بن بهرام جنّابی‎,) was the founder of theQarmatian state in Al-Bahrayn, in the late 9th century CE. He was a Persian from Jannāba (Ganaveh, currently in Bushehr province).
The exact date of his birth is not known. He was born between 230 AH/845 CE, and 240 AH/855 and died in 300/913 or 301/913-14, and. In 900, he scored a major victory over an Abbasid army sent to subdue him, led by Al-'Abbas ibn 'Amr al-Ghanawi. He was succeeded by his son Abū-Tāhir Al-Jannābī.

Abū-Tāhir Sulaymān Al-Jannābī (906–944) (Arabic: ابوطاهر سلیمان الجنّابی‎)، (Persian: ابوطاهر سلیمان بهرام جنابی(گناوه ای)‎) was the ruler of the Qarmatian state in Bahrain (historical region) and Eastern Arabia, who in 930 led the sacking of Mecca.
He immediately began an expansionist phase, raiding Basra that year. He raided Kufa in 927, defeating an Abbasid army in the process, and threatened Baghdad in 928 before pillaging much of Iraq when he could not gain entry to the city.[2] In 930, he led the Qarmatians’ most notorious attack when he pillaged Mecca and desecrated Islam’s most sacred sites. The Kaaba was looted, with Abū-Tāhir taking personal possession of the Black Stone and bringing it back to Al-Hasa.

Abū-Tāhir began to frequently raid Muslim pilgrims, reaching as far as the Hijaz region. On one of his raids he succeeded in capturing Abu'l-Haija bin Hamdun, who was an Abbasid commander. In 926 he led his army deep into Abbasid Iraq, reaching as far north as Kufa, forcing the Abbasids to pay large sums of money in for him to leave the city in peace.


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Kingdom of Pontus (greco-persian)

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Abu Muslim Khorasani, the man who crushed Ummayad Empire

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Abu Muslim Khorasani known as Vehzādān Pour Vandād Hormoz (Persian: وهزادان پور ونداد هرمزد‎), was a general in service of the Abbasid dynasty, who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty.

Rise and revolution

Abu Muslim observed the revolt in Kufa in 736 tacitly. With the death of the Umayyad CaliphHisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 743, the Islamic world was launched into civil war. Abu Muslim was sent to Khorasan by the Abbasids initially as a propagandist and then to revolt on their behalf. He took Merv in December 747 (or January 748), defeating the Umayyad governor Nasr ibn Sayyar, as well as Shayban al-Khariji, a Kharijite aspirant to the caliphate. He became the de facto governor of Khorasan, and gained fame as a general in the late 740s in defeating the rebellion of Bihafarid, the leader of a syncretic Persian sect that wereMazdaism. Abu Muslim received support in suppressing the rebellion both from purist Muslims and Zoroastrians. In 750, Abu Muslim became leader of the Abbasid army and defeated the Umayyads at Battle of the Zab. Abu Muslim stormed Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad caliphate, later that year.

His heroic role in the revolution and military skill, along with his conciliatory politics toward Shia,Sunnis, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians, made him extremely popular among the people. Although it appears that Abu al-'Abbas al-Saffahtrusted him in general, he was wary of his power, limiting his entourage to 500 men upon his arrival to Iraq on his way to Hajj in 754. Abu al-'Abbas's brother, al-Mansur (r. 754-775), advised al-Saffah on more than one occasion to have Abu Muslim killed, fearing his rising influence and popularity. It seems that this dislike was mutual, with Abu Muslim aspiring to more power and looking down in disdain on al-Mansur, feeling al-Mansur owed Abu Muslim for his position. When the new caliph's uncle, Abdullah ibn Ali rebelled, Abu Muslim was requested by al-Mansur to crush this rebellion, which he did, and Abdullah was given to his nephew as a prisoner. Abdullah was ultimately executed.

Relations deteriorated quickly when al-Mansur sent an agent to inventory the spoils of war, and then appointed Abu Muslim governor of Syria andEgypt, outside his powerbase. After an increasingly acrimonious correspondence between Abu Muslim and al-Mansur, Abu Muslim feared he was going to be killed if he appeared in the presence of the Caliph. He later changed his mind and decided to appear in his presence due to a combination of perceived disobedience, al-Mansur's promise to keep him as governor of Khorasan, and the assurances of some of his close aides, some of whom were bribed by al-Mansur. He went to Iraq to meet with al-Mansur's in al-Mada'in in 755. Al-Mansur proceeded to enumerate his grievances against Abu Muslim, who kept reminding the Caliph of his efforts to enthrone him. Against Muslim were also charges of being a zindiq or heretic.[6] al-Mansur then signaled five of his guards behind a portico to kill him. Abu Muslim's mutilated body was thrown in the river Tigris, and his commanders were bribed to acquiesce to the murder.

Death

His murder was not well received by the residents of Khorasan and Kurdistan, and there was resentment and rebellion among the population over the brutal methods used by Mansur.[6] He became a legendary figure for many in Persia, and several Persian heretics started revolts claiming he had not died and would return;[6] the latter included his own propagandist Ishaq al-Turk, the Zoroastrian cleric Sunpadh in Nishapur, the Abu Muslimiyya subsect of the Kaysanites Shia, and al-Muqanna in Khorasan. Even Babak claimed descent from him.
 
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