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Heritage

History from Elam to today, the calendar, faiths, arts, literature and food. 40 chronology entries, 12 topic registers and 116 days to keep, each with its source and its label.

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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council

Heritage

History from Elam to today, the calendar, faiths, arts, literature and food. 40 chronology entries, 12 topic registers and 116 days to keep, each with its source and its label.

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Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
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The chronology

16 of 40 entries · by erasources still needed
3200 BCE (c.) Proto-Elamite writing at Susa700 BCE (c.) The Medes539 BCE Cyrus II takes Babylon520 BCE (c.) Darius I and the Bisotun inscription330 BCE Alexander burns Persepolis247 BCE (c.) The Parthian (Arsacid) Empire224 The Sasanian Empire651 Fall of the Sasanians819 (c.) The Samanids and New Persian1010 Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh1025 (c.) Avicenna's Canon of Medicine1259 Maragheh observatory1273 Death of Rumi in Konya1390 (c.) Death of Hafez in Shiraz1501 The Safavid state1604 Armenians moved to New Julfa, Isfahan
Proto-Elamite writing at SusaElam, centred on Susa and Anshan, develops its own scripts. A proposed decipherment of Linear Elamite was published in 2022 and is still debated. · Before the Iranians
3200 BCE (c.)
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Community and theme dossiers

15 · written with care for sensitive topics
communityIranian Jews and the Jewish history of the Iranian diaspora

یهودیان ایرانی

in preparationcommunityBaha'is of Iran

بهائیان

in preparationcommunityZoroastrians

زرتشتیان

in preparationcommunityArmenians of Iran

ارامنه ایران

in preparationcommunityAssyrians and Chaldeans of Iranin preparationcommunityMandaeans

صابئین مندایی

in preparationcommunityKurds of Iran

کردهای ایران

in preparationcommunityBaluch of Iran

بلوچ

in preparationcommunityAzerbaijanis of Iran

آذربایجانی‌های ایران

in preparationcommunityArabs of Iran

عرب‌های ایران

in preparationcommunityTurkmen of Iran

ترکمن‌های ایران

in preparationcommunityLurs

لرها

in preparationcommunityGilaks and Mazandaranis

گیلک‌ها و مازندرانی‌ها

in preparationcommunityAfghans in Iran

افغانستانی‌ها در ایران

in preparationcommunityThe Persianate kin: Afghans, Tajiks, Parsis and Iranis of India, Ajam of the Gulfin preparation
Each dossier is written by a school of the Academy from public records, with sources. It is reviewed before publication and in preparation until then.
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Heritage topics

12 topics
Faiths

10 entries · each with its note

listArts

8 entries · each with its note

listLiterature

24 entries · each with its note

listFood

21 entries · each with its note

listPeoples

18 entries · each with its note

listMusic

11 entries · each with its note

listCinema

10 entries · each with its note

listArt

8 entries · each with its note

listArchitecture

10 entries · each with its note

listCrafts

8 entries · each with its note

listUnesco

27 entries · each with its note

listWorldheritage

30 entries · each with its note

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Days to keep

116 days · in the calendars that fix themastronomical · variable · solar-hijri · lunar-hijri · gregorian · hebrew · easter
JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECPS752 remembrance · 01-08 · gregorianWoman, Life, Freedom anniversary · 09-16 · gregorianNewroz (Kurdish new year) · 03-21 · gregorianRumi’s birthday · 09-30 · gregorianConstitutional Revolution, decree of 5 August 1906 · 08-05 · gregorianCyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder · 10-29 · gregorianBam earthquake remembrance · 12-26 · gregorianHalabja remembrance · 03-16 · gregorianKurdish Journalism Day · 04-22 · gregorianKurdish Language Day · 05-15 · gregorianSeb-i Arus (Rumi's wedding night) · 12-17 · gregorianArmenian Christmas and Theophany · 01-06 · gregorianKha b-Nisan (Assyrian new year) · 04-01 · gregorianChristmas (Assyrian and Chaldean churches) · 12-25 · gregorianForough Farrokhzad remembrance · 02-13 · gregorianSadegh Hedayat remembrance · 04-09 · gregorianSardasht chemical attack remembrance · 06-28 · gregorianIran Air Flight 655 remembrance · 07-03 · gregorianManjil-Rudbar earthquake remembrance · 06-21 · gregorianKermanshah earthquake remembrance · 11-12 · gregorian
PS752 remembranceRemembrance of the 176 people killed on Flight PS752, 8 January 2020.gregorian
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3200 BCE (c.) · Proto-Elamite writing at Susa · Before the Iranians