I live in Tehran. Tehran is the capital city of the Islamic Repablic of Iran with a land area of 658 square kilometers. It is located in the northern part of the country at the bottom of the slope of the Alborz Mountains. It is surounded by other provinces such as Ghom, Ghazvin and Ostan-e markazi.
The location provides the city with a nice weather. All four seasons of a year can be seen in Tehran. It is cool in the spring, almost hot in the summer, rainy in the automn, and snowy in the winter.
The population (as of 2006) is 7,354,000. In the 20th century, Tehran faced a large number of migratories from all around Iran who are predominantly Persian today, More than 60 percent of Tehranis were born outside Tehran.Tehran population includs ethnic and religious minorities such as Azeris, Armenian, Assyrians, Kurds, Jews, Bahá'ís and Zoroastrians. About 99.9% of non-persian Tehranis are either bilingual in Persian or fluent speakers of it.
The predominant majority of Tehranis are the followers of Shia Islam and the minorities include the believers of different sects of sunni Islam, Zoroastrianisim, Bahai faith, Judaism, christianity. There are also small groups of Shiks, Hindus, Buddahists, Mandeans, Spiritualists, Atheists, Yazidis, Yarsan, Secular Muslims and the followers of Mystic Islam etc.
Tehran has a wealth of cultural attractions including palaces (Golestan Palace, Sadabad Palace, Niavaran Palace Complex, etc), museums (Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,etc), castles and forts (Ghal'eh Dokhtar Tang Goseel near Karajfrom Seljuqi era, Iraj Fort in Varamin,etc), famous houses(Etehadiyeh House (Qajar era), Amir Bahador House (Qajar era), , archeological sites(, towers, libraries, bazzars,and shopping centers.
Famous Tehranis
Here is a list of the famous Tehranis: Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Marufi, Abdolkarim Soroush, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Ahmad Allahyari, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Ali Amini, Ali Parvin, Amir Ansari, Arash Labaf, Ardeshir Zahedi, Arfa Atrai, Azar Nafisi, Bahar Soomekh, Bita Farrahi, Bozorg Alavi, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Deep Dish, DJ Aligator, Ebrahim Hamedi (Ebi), Firouzeh, Forough Farrokhzad, Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, Gholamreza Rouhani, Hadi Saei, Hassan Ali Mansur, Hosein Ala', Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Kamran Shirdel, Khosrow Vaziri, Mahnaz Afshar, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mostafa Chamran, Niki Karimi, Rahi Mo'ayeri, Said Nafisi, Shadmehr Aghili, Shaul Mofaz, Simin Behbahani, Soleiman Haim
The location provides the city with a nice weather. All four seasons of a year can be seen in Tehran. It is cool in the spring, almost hot in the summer, rainy in the automn, and snowy in the winter.
The population (as of 2006) is 7,354,000. In the 20th century, Tehran faced a large number of migratories from all around Iran who are predominantly Persian today, More than 60 percent of Tehranis were born outside Tehran.Tehran population includs ethnic and religious minorities such as Azeris, Armenian, Assyrians, Kurds, Jews, Bahá'ís and Zoroastrians. About 99.9% of non-persian Tehranis are either bilingual in Persian or fluent speakers of it.
The predominant majority of Tehranis are the followers of Shia Islam and the minorities include the believers of different sects of sunni Islam, Zoroastrianisim, Bahai faith, Judaism, christianity. There are also small groups of Shiks, Hindus, Buddahists, Mandeans, Spiritualists, Atheists, Yazidis, Yarsan, Secular Muslims and the followers of Mystic Islam etc.
Tehran has a wealth of cultural attractions including palaces (Golestan Palace, Sadabad Palace, Niavaran Palace Complex, etc), museums (Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,etc), castles and forts (Ghal'eh Dokhtar Tang Goseel near Karajfrom Seljuqi era, Iraj Fort in Varamin,etc), famous houses(Etehadiyeh House (Qajar era), Amir Bahador House (Qajar era), , archeological sites(, towers, libraries, bazzars,and shopping centers.
Famous Tehranis
Here is a list of the famous Tehranis: Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Marufi, Abdolkarim Soroush, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Ahmad Allahyari, Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Ali Amini, Ali Parvin, Amir Ansari, Arash Labaf, Ardeshir Zahedi, Arfa Atrai, Azar Nafisi, Bahar Soomekh, Bita Farrahi, Bozorg Alavi, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Deep Dish, DJ Aligator, Ebrahim Hamedi (Ebi), Firouzeh, Forough Farrokhzad, Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, Gholamreza Rouhani, Hadi Saei, Hassan Ali Mansur, Hosein Ala', Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Kamran Shirdel, Khosrow Vaziri, Mahnaz Afshar, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mostafa Chamran, Niki Karimi, Rahi Mo'ayeri, Said Nafisi, Shadmehr Aghili, Shaul Mofaz, Simin Behbahani, Soleiman Haim
2 comments:
Dear Fereshte,
Congratulation for your blog. I will wait for more interesting posts.
Luck,
Parisa
Hi, I'm a french student. With my class we have to do every week a summury of a breaking news in iran. I would like to ask you if you are interesting to give us some informations like how you live in Iran. I will be very happy to have an iran friend. That could be wonderful!!!
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Alexandra
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