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 | | Persia proper was a tract of no very large dimensions on the Persian Gulf, which is still known as Fars or Farsistan, a corruption of the ancient appellation. |
 | | Gomates, Cambyses' successor, reversed the policy of Cyrus, with respect to the Jews, and forbade, by an edict, the further building of the Temple. |
 | | Persia was doubtless in early times included in Elam, and its population was then either Semitic or allied to the Accadians, who founded more than one state in the Babylonian plain. |
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