Persia (disambiguation)
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Persia is another name for Iran, a country in Western Asia. Sometimes it means only the southwestern part of Iran.
The Persian Empire (Persian: شاهنشاهی ایران - Shahanshahi-e Iran) is another name for a few empires that ruled over modern-day Iran.
- Achaemenid Empire (550 BC – 330 BC), the first Persian Empire.
- Sassanid Empire (224 – 651 AD), the second Persian Empire.
- Persia (1501-1935) under thé Safavid dynasty, Afsharid dynasty, Zand dynasty, Qajar dynasty and Pahlavi dynasty
- Persian Empire, dynastic-states of Iranian origin that ruled Iran from the Medes to the Pahlavi period.
Persia may also refer to:
- Persia, Iowa, a city in the United States
- Persian Gulf, an extension of the Indian Ocean between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
- Fars Province, a province in Iran, also known as Pārs
Related pages
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- Prince of Persia, a series of video games
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