Persia

  1. Proper noun.  (context, academic usage) a region in southwestern Iran, in particular Pars/Fars province.
  2. Proper noun.  (archaic, classical usage) Territories corresponding to either of the two empires ruled by dynasts from Pars/Fars, specially the first of the two.

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