Persia

Persia refers to the historic region centred on the area around the modern-day Iranian Republic and Afghanistan. There have been a number of important empires based from this region since the 8th century BC.

Notable Persian empires include the Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC), the Sasanian Empire (224–651), and the Seljuk Empire (1037–1194).

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
The Blood of Flowers
رباعيات خيام
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran
The Histories
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Blind Owl
The Conference of the Birds
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
The Divan
Creation
The Complete Persepolis
The Persian Expedition
The Blood of Flowers by Anita AmirrezvaniThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiMy Uncle Napoleon by Iraj PezeshkzadThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Authors Born in Iran
9 books — 1 voter
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreAnywhen by Beth DukeWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
War History Non Fiction
11 books — 4 voters

A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs by Massoumeh Raouf BasharidoustReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiMarried to a Stranger by Nahid RachlinHet huis van de moskee by Kader AbdolahFarangi Girl  Growing Up in Iran by Ashley Dartnell
Irani Authors
34 books — 10 voters

Tehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina NayeriEqual of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] by Kaoru Mori
Fictitious Iran
44 books — 24 voters
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousNot Without My Daughter by Betty MahmoodyPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
483 books — 197 voters

If you cross the Halys, you will destroy a great empire.
The Delphic Oracle

Alexander the Great
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thra ...more
Alexander the Great

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