Content note: Wartime Persian-language nationalist newspaper front page with an illustration of armed men behind a banner; no graphic content. This object is shown as it was published. Why
کاوه (Kaveh), no. 1, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 24 January 1916
Front page of the first issue of Kaveh, a Persian-language fortnightly printed in Berlin-Charlottenburg. A signed line drawing by B. Richter shows armed men rallying behind a raised banner, under a masthead named for Kaveh the blacksmith of the Shahnameh, and the lead article opens with a couplet from Ferdowsi about casting off Zahhak's yoke. The tell is the borrowed symbol: a national legend is pasted onto a wartime political appeal addressed to Persian readers.
- Date
- January 24, 1916
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Kaveh editorial group (Persian nationalists in Berlin; Hasan Taqizadeh, editor)
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (title page of Kaveh no. 1, from the 1977 Tehran reprint of the Berlin run, 1916-21), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (issued 1916, before 1931); Commons tags PD-Iran, PD-1923
Kaveh (Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1916); editors Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh; illustration signed B. Richter; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
شماره ۱ سال نخستین [Illustration signed: B. Richter] کاوه ۱۳۳۴ این روزنامه هر دوهفته یکبار نشر میشود عنوان مراسلات Redaktion Kaveh: Berlin-Charlottenburg, Leibnizstr. 64 قیمت اشتراک سالیانه در ایران یک تومان در سایر ممالک پنج فرانک دوشنبه ۱۵ شهر یورماه قدیم ۱۲۸۵ یزدگردی = ۱۸ ربیع الاول ۱۳۳۴ هجری = ۲۴ ژانویه ۱۹۱۶ آغاز کسی کو هوای فریدون کند سر از بند ضحاک بیرون کند در یک زمان فوق‌العاده تاریخی دنیا هستیم که عظمت و اهمیت آن [illegible] ... [remainder of the two columns not transcribed]
No. 1 First year [Illustration signed: B. Richter] Kaveh 1334 This newspaper is published once every two weeks Address for correspondence Redaktion Kaveh: Berlin-Charlottenburg, Leibnizstr. 64 Annual subscription in Iran one toman In other countries five francs Monday 15 of the month Yurmah (old style) 1285 Yazdegerdi = 18 Rabi' al-awwal 1334 Hijri = 24 January 1916 Beginning Whoever longs for Fereydun will draw his head out of Zahhak's bond We are living in an extraordinarily historic time of the world, whose greatness and importance [illegible] ... [remainder of the two columns not transcribed]
Masthead, price and address block, date line, section heading and verse are transcribed; only the first clause of the lead article is given and the two text columns beneath are otherwise not transcribed. Translation is literal, machine-made and not checked by a fluent reader.
