"كورش الكبير" يدخل في السياسة الإيرانية - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Saeid Jafari

Saeid Jafari

نوفمبر 2, 2016

The tomb of Cyrus the Great, a revered King of the Persian Empire, is seen at Pasargadae outside Shiraz, south of Tehran, September 24, 2007. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/File Photo - RTX2R70A

English

طهران، إيران — لطالما اعتزّ الإيرانيون بتاريخهم القديم وثقافتهم ولطالما تحدثوا بفخرٍ عن الإمبراطورية الأخمينية (حوالي 550-330 قبل الميلاد).

وقد حكم ملوك هذه الإمبراطورية برأفة وتسامح خاصةً الملك كورش الكبير والملك داريوس الأول العظيم مما جعل الإمبراطورية تتمتع بشعبية بين الإيرانيين.

An Iranian woman poses for a picture on May 19, 2015, in front of the tomb of Cyrus II of Persia, known as Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 6th century BCE in the town of Pasargadae, 135 kilometers north east of the southern city of shiraz. Under his rule, the Achaemenid Empire created the largest empire the world had yet seen. Cuneiform records from Babylon suggest that Cyrus died on 4 December 530 BCE, but according to the Greek historian, Herodotus, Cyrus was killed near t

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