Pahlavi may refer to:

Iranian royalty

Seven Parthian clans The Seven Great Houses of Iran, also known as the seven Parthian clans, were seven aristocracies of Parthian origin, who were allied with the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian court. The Parthian clans all claimed ancestry from Achaemenid Persians. The se ...

, ruling Parthian families during the Sasanian Empire *

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty () is an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian royal dynasty that was the Pahlavi Iran, last to rule Iran before the country's monarchy was abolished by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, Reza S ...

, the ruling house of Imperial State of Persia/Iran from 1925 until 1979 **

Reza Shah Pahlavi Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

(1878–1944), Shah of Persia from 1925 to 1941 ** Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi (1903–1992), first child and daughter of Reza Shah ** Shams Pahlavi (1917–1996), elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi **

Ashraf Pahlavi Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi (, , 26 October 1919 – 7 January 2016) was the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran (Persia), and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was considered the "power behind her brother" and was instru ...

(1919–2016), twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi **

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last List of monarchs of Iran, Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown by the ...

(1919–1980), Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979 ** Ali Reza Pahlavi I (1922–1954), brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, second son of Reza Shah ** Gholamreza Pahlavi (1923–2017), half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last living child of Reza Shah ** Abdul Reza Pahlavi (1924–2004), half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ** Fatimeh Pahlavi (1928–1987), Reza Shah's tenth child and half-sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ** Hamid Reza Pahlavi (1932–1992), Reza Shah's eleventh and last born child, half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. **

Farah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi (; []; born 14 October 1938) is the former Queen and last Empress () of Pahlavi Iran and is the third wife and widow of the last List of monarchs of Iran, Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She was born into a prosperous Ira ...

(born 1938), Shahbanu (Empress) of Iran, widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi **

Shahnaz Pahlavi Shahnaz Pahlavi (, born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the former Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Fawzia of Egypt. Early life and education Shahnaz Pahlavi was born in Tehran on 27 October 1940, a year before t ...

(born 1940), first child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Fawzia Fuad Chirine **

Patrick Ali Pahlavi Patrick Ali Pahlavi (; born 1 September 1947) is a member of the deposed Pahlavi dynasty of Iran and was heir presumptive from 1954 to 1960. According to the former Persian Constitution of 1906, constitution of Iran Patrick was the first in the ...

(born 1947), nephew of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, heir presumptive from 1954 to 1960 ** Reza Pahlavi II (born 1960), Crown Prince of Iran, eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ** Farahnaz Pahlavi (born 1963), first child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi ** Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966–2011), younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi, second in line to the throne. ** Yasmine Pahlavi (born 1968), lawyer and the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran ** Princess Noor Pahlavi (born 1992), daughter of Reza Pahlavi and Yasmine Pahlavi

Language and writing

Parthian language The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan. Parthian was the language of ...

or Arsacid Pahlavi, a now-extinct language spoken in Parthia, Iran *

Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Pahlavi is the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, and is evident in clay fragments that have been dated to the reign of Mithridates I (''r.'' 171–138 BC). Other early evidence includes the Pahlavi inscriptions of Parth ...

, the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts *

Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...

, written in the Pahlavi script (including Zoroastrian Middle Persian of the 9th-11th century) *

Pahlavi scripts Pahlavi may refer to: Iranian royalty * Seven Parthian clans, ruling Parthian families during the Sasanian Empire * Pahlavi dynasty, the ruling house of Imperial State of Persia/Iran from 1925 until 1979 ** Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), Shah ...

, as adopted to render various Middle Iranian languages *

Pahlavi literature Middle Persian literature is the corpus of written works composed in Middle Persian, that is, the Middle Iranian dialect of Persia proper, the region in the south-western corner of the Iranian plateau. Middle Persian was the prestige dialect dur ...

, Persian literature of the 1st millennium AD *

Pahlavi Psalter The Pahlavi Psalter is the name given to a 12-page non-contiguous section of a Middle Persian translation of a Syriac version of the Book of Psalms. The Pahlavi Psalter was discovered in 1905 by the second German Turpan expedition under Albert v ...

, a 12-page non-contiguous section of a Middle Persian translation of a Syriac book of psalms *

Psalter Pahlavi Psalter Pahlavi is a cursive abjad that was used for writing Middle Persian on paper; it is thus described as one of the Pahlavi scripts. It was written right to left, usually with spaces between words. It takes its name from the Pahlavi Psalt ...

, a cursive abjad which was used for writing Middle Persian, described as one of the Pahlavi scripts *

Book Pahlavi Book Pahlavi is the cursive variant of the Pahlavi scripts, Pahlavi script, which was derived from the Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic script during the Sasanian Empire, Sassanid period to write the Middle Persian, Middle Persian language. Book Pahlav ...

, more commonly used cursive Middle Iranian abjad, one of the Pahlavi scripts *

Fahlavīyāt ''Fahlaviyat'' (), also spelled ''fahlavi'' (), was a designation for poetry composed in the local northwestern Iranian dialects and languages of the Fahla region, which comprised Isfahan, Ray, Hamadan, Mah Nahavand, and Azerbaijan, correspondi ...

or Pahlaviyat, poetry written in dialects of Pahla/Fahla region in western Iran, 9th–18th centuries AD

Places

Nanur Nanur () is a village in, and the capital of, Nanur Rural District of Nanur District, Baneh County, Kurdistan province, Iran. Demographics Ethnicity The village is populated by Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian ...

(Pahlavi Dezh), a village in Nanur Rural District, Kurdistan Province, Iran *

Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali () is a city on the Caspian Sea in the Central District of Bandar-e Anzali County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district. History Anzali is an old city in ancient Iran, first s ...

, formerly Pahlavi, a port city in Gilan Province, Iran * Pahlavi Mordab, a coastal lagoon in the Caspian Sea near Bandar-e Anzali * Pahlavi Street, former name of Valiasr Street in Tehran, Iran

Other uses

* Order of Pahlavi (''Neshan-e Pahlavi''), the highest order of the former Imperial State of Iran *

Pahlavi Crown The Pahlavi Crown () was the Persian coronation crown used during the Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979). It is held amongst the Iranian National Jewels by the government of Iran. Background Following the ascension of the Pahlavi dynasty in 19 ...

, part of the coronation regalia used by the Pahlavi Shahs and part of the

Iranian Crown Jewels The Iranian National Jewels (, ''Javāherāt-e Melli-ye Irān''), originally the Iranian Crown Jewels (, ''Javāherāt-e Saltanati-ye Irān''), include elaborate crowns, thirty tiaras, and numerous aigrettes, a dozen bejeweled swords and shield ...

* Pahlavi hat, an item of headgear for men introduced by Reza Shah * Pahlavi University or Shiraz University, a public university located in Shiraz, Iran *

Pahlavas The Pahlavas are a people mentioned in ancient Indian texts. According to Patrick Carnegy, a Raj-era ethnographer, the 4th-century BCE ''Vartika'' of Katyayana mentions the ''Sakah-Parthavah'', demonstrating an awareness of these Saka-Parthians, ...

, the Parthians in ancient Indian literature **

Pahlava kingdom {{about, the kingdom of Pahlava in Indian epic literature, the historical kingdom, Indo-Parthian kingdom The Pahlava kingdom is identified to be a kingdom of an Iranian tribe. The kingdom was well known, even during the campaign of Alexander. It w ...

, their kingdom as known to the Indians

Iranian royalty

Language and writing

Places

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