Ferdowsi spent 30 years writing the Shahnameh, preserving Persian language and identity after the Arab conquest. It has over 50,000 couplets.
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23 Tir 2575
23 Tir 2575 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 23 Tir 1395 Shamsi and 2016-07-13 Gregorian. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
23 Tir 2575 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Wednesday — equivalent to 23 Tir 1395 Shamsi and 13 July 2016 Gregorian.
- Shahanshahi
- 23 Tir 2575
- Shamsi
- 23 Tir 1395
- Gregorian
- 13 July 2016
Cultural insight
Verse of the day
چشمه چون ز سنگ بر میآید دُر و مرجان ز کوه سر میآید
“When a spring emerges from rock Pearls and coral come from mountains”
— Saadi
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