Timeline of Iranian history

The page details the timeline of History of Iran.

Cities in Iran:

Map showing the area of the Elamite kingdom and the neighbouring areas. The approximate Bronze Age extension of the Persian Gulf is shown.
Map of the Ancient Near East between the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC and the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BC; from a historical atlas illustrated by William Robert Shepherd .
Map of the expansion of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the second half of the sixth century BC.
Map of the Achaemenid Empire under Darius the Great ; from a historical atlas illustrated by William Robert Shepherd .
Map of the Parthian Empire under Mithridates II in 94 BC.
The Sasanian Empire reached its greatest extent only a decade before its destruction commenced. Territories shown in a lighter shade of blue are those conquered by Khosrow II during the Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628 and returned to the Romans following the war's conclusion.