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Shahnameh
The
Shahnameh
, also transliterated as
Shahnama
( , "The Book of Kings"), is a long
epic poem
written by the
Persian poet
Ferdowsi
between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the
national epic
of
Greater Iran
. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the
Shahnameh
is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet. It tells mainly the
mythical
and to some extent the historical past of the
Persian Empire
from the creation of the world until the
Islamic conquest of Persia
in the 7th century. Today
Iran
,
Azerbaijan
,
Afghanistan
and the greater
region
influenced by the
Persian culture
(such as
Georgia
,
Armenia
,
Turkey
and
Dagestan
) celebrate this national epic.
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