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The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronology ( Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh-Şomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative ...
Solar Hijri calendar. The Solar Hijri calendar or (Iranian) Persian calendar [ a] is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It is a solar calendar and is the one Iranian calendar that is the most similar to the Gregorian calendar, it also is one of the most accurate in the world, being based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
This is a list of Hijri years (Latin: anno Hegirae or AH) with the corresponding common era years where applicable. For Hijri years since 1297 AH (1879/1881 CE), the Gregorian date of 1 Muharram, the first day of the year in the Islamic calendar, is given.
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Aban ( Persian: آبان, Persian pronunciation: [ɒːˈbɒːn] [ 1]) is the eighth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. [ 1] Aban has 30 days. [ 1] It begins in October and ends in November by the Gregorian calendar [citation needed]. Aban corresponds to the tropical astrological month of Scorpio.
Esfand ( Persian: اسفند, Persian pronunciation: [esˈfænd] [1]) is the twelfth and final month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. [1] Esfand has twenty-nine days [1] normally, and thirty during leap years. [2] It begins in February and ends in March of the Gregorian calendar [citation needed].
Jalali calendar. The Jalali calendar, also referred to as Malikshahi and Maliki, [ 1] is a solar calendar compiled during the reign of Jalaluddin Malik-Shah I, the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire (1072–1092 CE), by the order of Grand Vizier Nizam al-Mulk, using observations made in the cities of Isfahan (the capital of the Seljuks), Rey, and ...
The Shahanshahi calendar (also Shahenshahi, Shahenshai) or "imperial" calendar is the system described in Denkard, a 9th-century Zoroastrian text. It explicitly acknowledged several methods of intercalation: [ 24] a leap-day every 4 years; adding ten days every 40 years; a leap-month of 30 days once every 120 years;