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1933 (In the year)
193- |
Bahá'ís in Gulpáygán, Iran, were refused admission to the public baths. Shaykh Ja'far Hidáyat was beaten and expelled from the town. [BW18:388] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; Gulpaygan, Iran; Iran | |
1933 (In the year)
193- |
The Tavakkul Bahá'í School in Qazvín, Iran, was closed. [BW18:388] | * Persecution, Iran; - Bahá'í inspired schools; - Persecution; Iran; Qazvin, Iran | |
1933 (In the year)
193- |
On the initiative of Martha Root, Mr. György Steiner, an Esperantist in the city of Győr translated J.E. Esslemont's Bahá'u'lláh and The New Era into Hungarian between 1931-33. This was the first major work published in Hungarian about the Bahá'í Faith. The Preface of the book was written by Mr. Rusztem Vámbéry, son of Arminius Vámbéry. [www.bahai.hu] [BW5p377, 609] | * Publications; * Translation; Arminius Vambery; Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (book); Esperanto; First translations; Gyorgy Steiner; Hungary; John Esslemont; Rusztem Vambery | First Bahá'í publication in Hungarian |
1933 (In the year)
193- |
The construction of the Akka-Haifa highway. The town of Haifa was taking on a greater importance with the opening of the deep-water port on 31 October 1933. By 1936 there were over 100,000 inhabitants. [Sunburst p99; Wikipedia | Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Israel; Palestine; Palestine; Statistics | |
1933 (In the Year)
193- |
The book Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era was translated into Serbian by the Serbian poet and translator Draga Ilić and a representative of the Bahá’í community in Yugoslavia. It had a foreword by Prof. Popović. The launch of the book was followed by a successful presentation on the Bahá’í Faith at Belgrade University. | * Publications; * Texts in multiple languages; * Translation; Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (book); Belgrade, Serbia | |
1933 (In the year)
193- |
After several lectures in Belgrade, Martha Root travelled to Zagreb to address the Croatian Women’s Club with more than 2,000 members. She had a long conversation with Stjepan Radić, leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, and presented him with the book Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era. [State of Governance of Religious Communities in Former Yugoslavia and the Developments of the Bahá’í Community and Jehovah’s Witnesses Status by Aleksandra Zibelnik Badii p55] | * Translation; Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (book); Belgrade, Serbia; Martha Root; Zagreb, Croatia |
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