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Monument of Ferdowsi on his memorial square in Tehran. At the feet of the poet the heroes of his epic Shahnameh: Future hero Zal and bird Simurgh.Ferdowsi by Master Sadighi
The Shahnameh ("The Book of Kings") is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is the national epic of the cultural sphere of Greater Persia.
Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of (Greater) Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
Sound: delbar by Alireza Eftekhari and Shirazi by Jahan
Pictures: Internet
Arangement: Sanda Foişoreanu