The word âHolocaustâ originates from the Greek term holokauston. The word is broken up into two roots: holos, meaning whole, and kaustos, meaning burn. The word etymologically transcended via late Latin, into Old French (holocauste), and eventuall...
The Islamic Republic of Iran changed SAVAK to SAVAMA. It was run after the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch.
Political History. In 750 AD, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Dynasty. In 762 the capital was moved from Damascus to Baghdad, in 836 the capital was moved to Samarra; in 892 it was moved back to Baghdad. From 750 to the middle of the 9th century the Abbasid Caliphate extended from Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) to Mawarannahr (modern Uzbekistan).