Crossword clues for shiraz
shiraz
- Iranian city of 1.2+ million
- Capital of Iran's Fars province
- A city in central southwestern Iran
- Ruins of ancient Persepolis are nearby
- Variety of wine grape
- Mum, on air, drunk on unknown wine
- Red extremists literally appear after endless neglect
- Iranian city - variety of wine grape
- Don't tell anyone I demolish unfinished wine
- Red wine choice
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shiraz \Shi*raz"\, n. A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wine made in the district of Shiraz, city in Persia, 1630s. As the name for a red wine made from a type of grape grown in the Rhône valley of France, it is recorded from 1908, from French syrah, the name apparently altered in English on mistaken notion that the grape was brought to Europe from the Middle East by Crusaders. The place name is said to be from Elamite sher "good" + raz "grape."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Shiraz English)
Wikipedia
Shiraz may refer to:
Places:
- Shiraz, Iran, a city in Iran
- Shiraz County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
- Shiraz, East Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
- Vosketap, Armenia, formerly called Shiraz
- Shiraz (Sápmi town name)v, Sami village in Sweden
People:
- Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet
- Ara Shiraz, Armenian sculptor
- Sipan Shiraz, Armenian poet
- Shiraz Ali, former Bermudian cricketer
- Shiraz Minwalla, Indian string theorist
- Shiraz Shariff, politician from Alberta, Canada
- Shiraz Shivji, computer designer
- Shiraz Sumar, East African cricketer
- Shiraz Tal, Israeli model and actor
- Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Los Angeles-based writer
Other:
- Syrah grapes. Shiraz is a synonym for syrah the grape variety
- Syrah wine is not to be confused with Shirazi wine
- Shiraz (band), a South African group from the 1980s
- Shiraz (ship), a FPSO vessel formerly named HMAS Westralia (O 195)
- Shiraz University
- Shiraz, another name for the Persian cat breed
Shiraz (; , Šīrāz, , ) is the sixth most populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province ( Old Persian as Pârsâ). At the 2011 census, the population of the city was 1,460,665 and its built-up area with "Shahr-e Jadid-e Sadra" (Sadra New Town) was home to 1,500,644 inhabitants. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the "Roodkhaneye Khoshk" (The Dry River) seasonal river. It has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. It is regarded as one of the oldest cities of ancient Persia.
The earliest reference to the city, as Tiraziš, is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BC. In the 13th century, Shiraz became a leading center of the arts and letters, due to the encouragement of its ruler and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. It was the capital of Persia during the Zand dynasty from 1750 until 1800. Two famous poets of Iran, Hafez and Saadi, are from Shiraz, whose tombs are on the north side of the current city boundaries.
Shiraz is known as the city of poets, literature, wine and flowers. It is also considered by many Iranians to be the city of gardens, due to the many gardens and fruit trees that can be seen in the city, for example Eram Garden. Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities. The crafts of Shiraz consist of inlaid mosaic work of triangular design; silver-ware; pile carpet-weaving and weaving of kilim, called gilim and jajim in the villages and among the tribes. In Shiraz industries such as cement production, sugar, fertilizers, textile products, wood products, metalwork and rugs dominate. Shirāz also has a major oil refinery and is also a major center for Iran's electronic industries: 53% of Iran's electronic investment has been centered in Shiraz. Shiraz is home to Iran's first solar power plant. Recently the city's first wind turbine has been installed above Babakoohi mountain near the city.
Shiraz was a South African group from the 1980s best known for their song "Fighting For Our Lives".
Usage examples of "shiraz".
It was not until after his father died, and he had succeeded as Shah in Shiraz, and Shams was thirty or older, that she gave birth to their only child, and then only a daughter.
Again we had our servants dress us in our best new raiment, and again we joined the Shah Zaman for the evening meal, and again it was a delicious repast, again excepting the Shiraz wine.
At different points during the war when Iraq became especially concerned about Iranian battlefield advances, Saddam opted to launch air and missile strikes against Iranian cities--this despite the fact that the Iranians had a great advantage in that their most important cities--Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashad--are much farther from the border than are the largest Iraqi cities, Baghdad and al-Basrah.
Khayyam, but the two mentioned here are the best known, with the Bodleian Manuscript used by Fitzgerald and copied in Shiraz in 1460-61.
Turkic-speaking Azeris account for as much as a quarter of the citizenry, and this does not include other Turkic sectors of the population, such as the Turkomens in the northeast, near the former Soviet border, and the Qhashqha’is in the southwest, near Shiraz and the Persian Gulf.
Meanwhile a certain Venetian by the name of Barbero had explored the ruins of western Asia and had brought back reports of a most curious language which he had found carved in the rocks of the temples of Shiraz and engraved upon endless pieces of baked clay.
GOORELKA OF OOLB When Shibli Bagarag had finished his narration of the case of Roomdroom the barber, the King of Oolb said, 'O thou, native of Shiraz, there is persuasion and sweetness and fascination on thy tongue, and I am touched with compassion for the soles of Baba Mustapha, that I bastinadoed but yesterday, and he was from Shiraz likewise.
En las puntales páginas de la enciclopedia biográfica titulada Templo del Fuego, ese polígrafo y derviche ha narrado que en un colegio de Shiraz hubo un astrolabio de cobre, "construido de tal suerte que quien lo miraba una vez no pensaba en otra cosa y así el rey ordenó que lo arrojaran a lo más profundo del mar, para que los hombres no se olvidaran del universo".
It was general, since the whole realm, from Shiraz to Samarcand, imbibed the faith of the Koran.
The Governor, who often drank in secret with his favorite Sultanas the wines of Greece and Shiraz, never in public drank anything but water.