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 Persia
In the Persian language (also known as Farsi), Persia is properly known as Fars, an ostan (or province) of modern day Iran.
The first organized Persian state was founded when his son Teispes settled in southern Iran around 650 BC, conquering the native Elamites.
At the time, the Persians were subservient to the Median Empire ruled by Cyrus' grandfather, Astyages.
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 DUTCH-PERSIAN RELATIONS
The reign of Shah ¿Abba@s I (q.v.; 996-1038/1588-1629).
Persian officials were not to open Dutch trade goods, and in exchange the Dutch were to buy annually 300 cargas of silk from the shah at 44 tomans each.
Persian studies are still included in the curricula of the universities of Leiden, Utrecht, and Nijmegen (de Bruijn; de Groot and Peters).
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 Persia Article, Persia Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Persians are descended from the Aryans, an Indo-European people that migrated to the region of Fars from CentralAsia c.
Their language is called Persian, or Farsi.According to the 2004 CIAWorld Factbook, 51% of Iran's current population is ethnic Persians.
The Persians gradually conquered territory from the natve kingdom of Elam, including the important region of Anshan.
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 Persia
Westerners referred to Iran as Persia until March 21, 1935, when Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call the country by its native name, Iran, meaning the country of Aryans.
Persian is also an ethnicity; roughly half of the current population of Iran are identified as Persian.
When the Pahlavi Shah asked the world to call the country Iran in 1935, in a way he symbolically bid farewell to the mighty empire of ancient times.
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 Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Darius divided his realm into about twenty provinces under satrap s, or governors, many of whom had personal ties to the Shah.
Internal unrest was mostly avoided since the Persians allowed local cultures to survive.
The shah s of the Khwarezmid Empire ruled for only a short while, however, because they had to face the most feared conqueror in history: Genghis Khan.
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 Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The country of Iran was formerly called "Persia" in English, but has always been referred to as "Iran" among Iranians themselves.
The Persian Empire once included most of Western and Central Asia and Northern Africa.
They made the Persian city of Shiraz, IranShiraz their capital.
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As NFL teams gear up at training camp and the latest edition of Electronic Arts' monstrously successful "Madden" game works its way to stores this week, fans of video game football may notice that there's something a bit different about this season.
Persia and Persian can refer to: the Western name for Iran.
Contents Persia: General The Persian State: Acheamenids (560-330 BCE) The Persian State: Parthia and Arcsacids (247 BCE-226 CE) The Persian State...
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