2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire
1971 · Event
At Persepolis the Shah hosts sixty kings and presidents in a tented city catered by Maxim's of Paris to celebrate Cyrus — a spectacle that becomes a symbol of his remoteness.
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- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Sassanid Empire (224)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Safavid Empire (1501)
- Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire (334 BCE)
- Safavid Iran converts to Twelver Shi'ism (1501)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
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- Six-Day War (1967)
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