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 2576
23 Tir 2576 Shahanshahi — equivalent to 23 Tir 1396 Shamsi and 2017-07-14 Gregorian. Today's occasion, a cultural insight, and a classical Persian verse.
23 Tir 2576 in the Shahanshahi calendar falls on Friday — equivalent to 23 Tir 1396 Shamsi and 14 July 2017 Gregorian.
- Shahanshahi
- 23 Tir 2576
- Shamsi
- 23 Tir 1396
- Gregorian
- 14 July 2017
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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