Huge, brass-studded, crafted mahogany doors in the capital - the exotic equivalent of Persian merchant bling

The city, then an important trading zone for Persian merchants, was visited by Adenese merchant Abraham Ben Yiju.

Wealthy residents and Persian merchants used coral and gypsum to build their houses.

He had mentioned that the town was a trading centre and Persian and Yemeni merchants disembarked at Mangalore.

Persian merchants naturally looked across to the Arab shore of the Persian Gulf finally making their homes in Dubai.

In December 1905, two Persian merchants were punished in Tehran for charging exorbitant prices.

In ancient times, a Persian merchant gets lost in a windstorm.

They traded with Roman traders as well as with Egyptian and Persian merchants.

Sulaiman was a Persian merchant and sea-captain who lived in the first half of the ninth century AD.

Modern researchers believe these Jews were descended from Persian merchants who settled in China during the early Song Dynasty.