HISTORICAL PLACES OF AZERBAIJAN IN GOOGLE EARTH PART TWO ( 2/2 )
1. MEDIEVAL CEMETERY OF JUGHA 38°58'27.75N 45°33'51.96E
2. MAIDEN TOWER,BAKU 40°21'58.26N 49°50'13.83E
3. FORT WALL,SHUSHI 39°45'56.98N 46°45'0.70E
4. MOSQUE,BAKU 40°21'31.38N 49°49'40.45E
5. MEMORIAL COMPLEX,SHUSHI 39°45'25.49N 46°44'36.17E
6. JAVAD KHAN MAUSOLEUM,GANJA 40°40'37.26N 46°21'31.50E
7. SUPREME COURT,BAKU 40°22'51.61N 49°51'55.54E
8. ST.JACOB CHURCH,ARTSAKH 39°49'40.97N 46°46'12.59E
9. FEXRI XIYABAN,BAKU 40°21'42.91N 49°49'17.44E
10. MOSQUE,GANJA 40°40'38.88N 46°21'32.08E
11. AZERBAYCAN BAKU DRAMA THEATRE 40°22'30.72N 49°49'51.57E
12. NELSON STEPANYAN'S STATUE 39°45'44.51N 46°44'53.95E
13. NIZAMI MUSEUM,BAKU 40°22'11.77N 49°50'11.15E
14. NELSON STEPANYAN'S STATUE,XANKEND 39°49'7.18N 46°45'11.45E
15. CHURCH,BAKU 40°22'37.81N 49°50'52.04E
16. SRTSAKH UNIVERSITY,ARTSAKH 39°49'29.86N 46°45'42.30E
17. SHIRVANSHAHS' PALACE,BAKU 40°22'0.50N 49°49'54.82E
18. MUSEUM,SHUSHI 39°45'23.66N 46°45'11.50E
19. AZERBAIJAN UNIVERSITY,BAKU 40°22'12.28N 49°48'55.51E
20. GREEN CHURCH,SHUSHI 39°45'44.89N 46°44'36.57E
21. ALINJA DAG MOUNTAIN,NAKHCHIVAN 39° 8'8.67N 45°42'56.71E
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The history of Iran, commonly also known as Persia in the Western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also to an extent known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia, the Bosphorus, and Egypt in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east, and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.
Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 7000 BC. The southwestern and western part of the Iranian Plateau participated in the traditional Ancient Near East with Elam, from the Early Bronze Age, and later with various other peoples, such as the Kassites, Mannaeans, and Gutians. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel calls the Persians the first Historical People. The Medes unified Iran as a nation and empire in 625 BC. The Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), founded by Cyrus the Great, was the first Persian empire and it ruled from the Balkans to North Africa and also Central Asia, spanning three continents, from their seat of power in Persis (Persepolis). It was the largest empire yet seen and the first world empire. The First Persian Empire was the only civilization in all of history to connect over 40% of the global population, accounting for approximately 49.4 million of the world's 112.4 million people in around 480 BC. They were succeeded by the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Empires, who successively governed Iran for almost 1,000 years and made Iran once again as a leading power in the world. Persia's arch-rival was the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire.
The Persian Empire proper begins in the Iron Age, following the influx of Iranian peoples. Iranian people gave rise to the Medes, the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian Empires of classical antiquity.
Once a major empire, Iran has endured invasions too, by the Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and the Mongols. Iran has continually reasserted its national identity throughout the centuries and has developed as a distinct political and cultural entity.
The Muslim conquest of Persia (633–654) ended the Sasanian Empire and is a turning point in Iranian history. Islamization of Iran took place during the eighth to tenth centuries, leading to the eventual decline of Zoroastrianism in Iran as well as many of its dependencies. However, the achievements of the previous Persian civilizations were not lost, but were to a great extent absorbed by the new Islamic polity and civilization.*
Iran, with its long history of early cultures and empires, had suffered particularly hard during the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Many invasions of nomadic tribes, whose leaders became rulers in this country, affected it negatively.Iran was reunified as an independent state in 1501 by the Safavid dynasty, which set Shia Islam
as the empire's official religion, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of Islam. Functioning again as a leading power, this time amongst the neighboring Ottoman Empire, its arch-rival for centuries, Iran had been a monarchy ruled by an emperor almost without interruption from 1501 until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when Iran officially became an Islamic republic on April 1, 1979.Over the course of the first half of the 19th century, Iran lost many of its territories in the Caucasus, which had been a part of Iran for centuries, comprising modern-day Eastern Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, to its rapidly expanding and emerged neighboring rival, the Russian Empire, following the Russo-Persian Wars between 1804–13 and 1826–8.
Multan | Wikipedia audio article
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Multan
00:00:46 1 Etymology
00:01:14 2 History
00:01:23 2.1 Ancient
00:02:35 2.1.1 Greek invasion
00:03:24 2.2 Early Islamic
00:03:50 2.2.1 Abbassid iAmirate/i
00:05:32 2.2.2 Qarmatian iAmirate/i
00:06:33 2.3 Medieval
00:06:41 2.3.1 Ghaznavid
00:08:28 2.3.2 Ghurid
00:09:14 2.3.3 Turkic
00:10:38 2.3.4 Tughluq
00:11:48 2.3.5 Timurid
00:12:32 2.3.6 iLangah/i Sultanate
00:13:30 2.3.7 Suri
00:14:11 2.3.8 Medieval trade
00:15:31 2.4 Mughal period
00:16:30 2.4.1 iDar al-Aman/i era
00:17:16 2.5 Post-Mughal
00:18:10 2.6 Sikh era
00:20:11 2.6.1 1848 Multan Revolt
00:21:07 2.7 British Raj
00:22:06 2.8 Modern
00:22:32 3 Geography
00:22:41 3.1 Cityscape
00:23:48 3.2 Topography
00:24:25 3.3 Climate
00:25:53 4 Demographics
00:26:17 4.1 Language
00:26:32 5 Civic Administration
00:27:04 6 Transportation
00:27:13 6.1 Motorways
00:28:20 6.2 Rail
00:29:20 6.3 Bus rapid transit
00:30:22 6.4 Air
00:31:04 7 Education
00:32:45 8 Heritage
00:32:54 8.1 Prahladpuri Temple
00:33:30 8.2 Notable saints of Multan
00:34:55 9 Sports
00:35:33 10 Notable people from Multan
00:36:18 11 Sister cities
00:36:38 12 See also
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Multan (Punjabi, Saraiki, Urdu: مُلتان [mʊltaːn] (listen)), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the banks of the Chenab River, Multan is Pakistan's 7th largest city, and is the major cultural and economic centre of southern Punjab.
Multan's history stretches deep into antiquity. The ancient city was site of the renowned Multan Sun Temple, and was besieged by Alexander the Great during the Mallian Campaign. Multan was one of the most important trading centres of medieval Islamic India, and attracted a multitude of Sufi mystics in the 11th and 12th centuries, earning the city the nickname City of Saints. The city, along with the nearby city of Uch, is renowned for its large collection of Sufi shrines dating from that era.
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Shia (; Arabic: شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʿatu ʿAlī, adherent of Ali), also transliterated Shiah and Shiʿah, is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm but was prevented caliphate as a result of Saqifah incident. This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr, who they claim was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. community consensus in Saqifa, to be the first rightful Caliph after the Prophet.Unlike the first three Rashidun caliphs, Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad, Banu Hashim.Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias of Ali, Shias or the Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i or Shi'ite individually. Shia Islam is the second largest branch of Islam: in 2009, Shia Muslims constituted 10-20% of the world's Muslim population. Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam, with 2012 estimates saying that 94% of Shias were Twelvers.
Shia Islam is based on the Quran and the message of Muhammad attested in hadith, and on hadith taught by their Imams. Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. The Shia also extend this Imammah doctrine to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt (the people/family of the House), and some individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility and other divinely ordained traits. Although there are many Shia subsects, modern Shia Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis and Zaidis, with Twelver Shia being the largest and most influential group among Shia.
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Shia (; Arabic: شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʿatu ʿAlī, adherent of Ali), also transliterated Shiah and Shiʿah, is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm but was prevented caliphate as a result of Saqifah incident. This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr who they claim was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. community consensus in Saqifa, to be the first rightful Caliph after the Prophet.Unlike the first three Rashidun caliphs, Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad, Banu Hashim.Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias of Ali, Shias or the Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i or Shi'ite individually. Shia Islam is the second largest branch of Islam: in 2009, Shia Muslims constituted 10-20% of the world's Muslim population. Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam, with 2012 estimates saying that 85% of Shias were Twelvers.
Shia Islam is based on the Quran and the message of Muhammad attested in hadith, and on hadith taught by their Imams. Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. The Shia also extend this Imammah doctrine to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt (the people/family of the House), and some individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility and other divinely ordained traits. Although there are many Shia subsects, modern Shia Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis and Zaidis, with Twelver Shia being the largest and most influential group among Shia.
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Shia
00:01:52 1 Etymology
00:02:24 2 Terminology
00:03:36 3 Beliefs
00:03:45 3.1 Imamate
00:03:53 3.1.1 Succession of Ali
00:04:31 3.1.1.1 The event of Dhul Asheera
00:07:08 3.1.1.2 The event of Ghadir Khumm
00:08:39 3.1.2 Ali's caliphate
00:11:43 3.1.3 Hasan ibn Ali
00:12:44 3.1.4 Husayn
00:14:11 3.1.5 Imamate of the iAhl al-Bayt/i
00:18:12 3.1.6 Imam of the time, last Imam of the Shia
00:19:02 4 Theology
00:20:09 5 Hadith
00:20:47 6 Profession of faith
00:21:37 7 Infallibility
00:23:33 8 Occultation
00:24:35 9 Inheritance
00:25:50 10 History
00:27:58 11 North Africa
00:28:25 12 Iran and Caucasus
00:30:47 13 Arabian Peninsula
00:31:02 13.1 Bahrain
00:31:38 13.2 Yemen
00:32:14 14 Europe
00:32:33 15 Syria and Iraq
00:33:12 16 Asia Minor (Modern Turkey)
00:33:36 17 India
00:34:58 18 South-East Asia
00:35:20 19 East Africa
00:35:35 19.1 Fatimid caliphate
00:36:29 19.2 Safavids
00:37:45 20 Community
00:37:54 20.1 Demographics
00:40:24 20.1.1 Significant populations worldwide
00:40:45 20.2 Persecution
00:42:31 20.3 Holidays
00:44:51 20.4 Holy sites
00:45:53 21 Branches
00:46:17 21.1 Twelver
00:47:03 21.1.1 Doctrine
00:48:30 21.1.2 Books
00:49:04 21.1.3 The Twelve Imams
00:49:57 21.1.4 Jurisprudence
00:52:04 21.2 Zaidi (Fiver)
00:52:35 21.2.1 Doctrine
00:53:46 21.2.2 Jurisprudence
00:54:18 21.2.3 Timeline
00:56:46 21.3 Ismaili
00:58:47 21.3.1 Ismaili imams
01:01:23 21.3.2 Pillars
01:01:42 21.3.3 Contemporary leadership
01:02:59 22 Other doctrines
01:03:08 22.1 Doctrine about necessity of acquiring knowledge
01:04:04 22.2 Doctrine concerning Du'a
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Shia (; Arabic: شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʿatu ʿAlī, adherent of Ali), also transliterated Shiah and Shiʿah, is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm, but was prevented from the caliphate as a result of the incident at Saqifah. This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr, who they claim was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. community consensus in Saqifa, to be the first rightful Caliph after the Prophet.Unlike the first three Rashidun caliphs, Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad, Banu Hashim.Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias of Ali, Shias or the Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i or Shi'ite individually. Shia Islam is the second largest branch of Islam: in 2009, Shia Muslims constituted 10% of the world's Muslim population. Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam, with 2012 estimates saying that 85% of Shias were Twelvers.
Shia Islam is based on the Quran and the message of Muhammad attested in hadith, and on hadith taught by their Imams. Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. The Shia also extend this Imammah doctrine to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt (the people/family of the House), and some individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility and other divinely ordained traits. Although there are many Shia subsects, modern Shia Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis and Zaidis, with Twelver Shia being the largest and most influential group among Shia.
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Shia (; Arabic: شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʿatu ʿAlī, adherent of Ali), also transliterated Shiah and Shiʿah, is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm but was prevented caliphate as a result of Saqifah incident. This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr who they claim was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. community consensus in Saqifa, to be the first rightful Caliph after the Prophet.Unlike the first three Rashidun caliphs, Ali was from the same clan as Muhammad, Banu Hashim.Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias of Ali, Shias or the Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i or Shi'ite individually. Shia Islam is the second largest branch of Islam: in 2009, Shia Muslims constituted 10-20% of the world's Muslim population. Twelver Shia (Ithnā'ashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam, with 2012 estimates saying that 94% of Shias were Twelvers.
Shia Islam is based on the Quran and the message of Muhammad attested in hadith, and on hadith taught by their Imams. Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. The Shia also extend this Imammah doctrine to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt (the people/family of the House), and some individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility and other divinely ordained traits. Although there are many Shia subsects, modern Shia Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis and Zaidis, with Twelver Shia being the largest and most influential group among Shia.