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	~~#REDIRECT~~ [[:Category:Persia]]		'''The Persian Empire''' ({{lang-fa\|شاهنشاهی ایران}}, [[Romanization of Persian\|translit.]] ''{{transl\|fa\|Šâhanšâhiye Irân}}'', [[Literal translation\|lit.]] 'Imperial Iran') is a series of [[Empire\|imperial]] [[Dynasty\|dynasties]] centered in [[Iran\|Persia/Iran]] since the 6th century BC in the [[Achaemenid]] era, to the 20th century AD in the [[Qajar]] era.

			==Achaemenids==
			The first dynasty of the Persian Empire was created by [[Achaemenid Empire\|Achaemenids]], established by [[Cyrus the Great]] in 550 BC with the conquest of [[Medes\|Median]], [[Lydia]]n and [[Babylonian Empire\|Babylonian]] empires.<ref>{{Cite book \|title= The Histories \|last= Herodotus \|first= \|publisher= \|year= \|isbn= 978-0143107545 \|chapter= Halicarnassus \|pages= (page needed) }}</ref> It covered much of the Ancient world and controlled the largest percentage of the earth's population in history when it was conquered by [[Alexander the Great]]. [[Persepolis]] is the most famous historical site related to Persian Empire in the Achaemenid era and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

			==Parthians and Sasanians==
			From 247 BC to 224 AD, Persia was ruled by the [[Parthian Empire]], which supplanted the [[Hellenistic]] [[Seleucid Empire]], and then by the [[Sassanian Empire]], which ruled up until the mid-7th century.<ref>''History of the World in 1,000 Objects'' (DK Publishing, 2014). p. 71.</ref>

			The Persian Empire in Sasanian era was interrupted by the [[Arab conquest of Persia]] in 651 AD, establishing the even larger Islamic [[caliphate]], and later by the [[Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia\|Mongol invasion]]. The main religion of ancient Persia was the native [[Zoroastrianism]], but after the seventh century, it was replaced by [[Islam]].

			==Safavids==
			The [[Safavid Empire]] was the first great Persian Empire established after Arab conquest of Persia by [[Shah Ismail I]]. From their base in [[Ardabil]], the Safavid Persians established control over parts of [[Greater Iran\|Greater Persia/Iran]] and reasserted the Persian identity of the region, thus becoming the first native Persian dynasty since the Sasanian Empire to establish a unified Persian state.

			Literature, art and architecture were flourished in Safavid era once again and it is often cited as the "rebirth of the Persian Empire". Safavids also announced Shia Islam as the official religion in the empire versus the Sunni Islam in the neighbouring Ottoman Empire.

			== List of the dynasties described as a Persian Empire ==
			<!-- In this list non-Persian dynasties and empires are not included. Please do not add non-Persian dynasties to this list -->
			* [[Achaemenid Empire]] (550–330 BC)
			* [[Sasanian Empire]] (224–651 AD)
			* [[Safavid dynasty]] (1501–1736 AD)
			* [[Afsharid dynasty]] (1736–1796 AD)
			* [[Qajar dynasty]] (1785–1925 AD)

			== References ==
			{{reflist}}

			== External links ==
			*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire


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