Why "Persia" is renamed  to "Iran", Which one is more beautiful?
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Iran is the ancient name of the country; the Aryan tribes who formed the country in the Achaemenid era united the plateau in that region and called the country Iran (Aryanam in ancient texts), meaning "the land of Aryans".\n\nThe name Persia was introduced much later (around 600 BC) and it derives from the ancient Greek name (Persis) for Iran's maritime province called Fars/Pars. Based on this, other European nations termed the area Persia.\n\nOn March 21, 1935 Iran formally asked the international community to call the country by its native name. \n\nIn 1959, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, before his removal from power announced that both Persia and Iran can be used interchangeably.
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Persia became Iran, not Iraq. However, Persia, from time to time, controlled parts of and/or all of Iraq.
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It isn't\nGeorgia (the state) was named after King George II of England the country Georgia is derived from the Persian word Gurji (the people in the country (not region of Russia- separate country) of Georgia call the country Sakartvelo- only foreigners call it Georgia.
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thousands of years ago, it was first discover in persia.
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In the 6th century bc the territory of present-day Iran was the center of the Persian Empire, the world’s preeminent power at that time. For more than 2,000 years, the region’s inhabitants have referred to it by the name Iran, derived from the Aryan tribes who settled the area long ago. However, until 1935, when the Iranian ruler demanded that the name Iran be used, the English-speaking world knew the country as Persia, a legacy of the Greeks who named the region after its most important province, Pars (present-day Fārs). Iran was a monarchy ruled by a shah, or king, almost without interruption from 1501 until 1979, when a yearlong popular revolution led by the Shia clergy culminated in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic republic. See Islamic Revolution of Iran.
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Iran.....I do not even bother to know about them....please next time choose right category for these sorts of silly question..\nthank you
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I dont care for Iran...so Portugal and Mexico were better
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Iran is one of the oldest and most beautiful countries in the world. Iran has vast deserts, fertile land, mountanous regions, and celebrates all four seasons. \n\nGo to http://www.dejkam.com/iran/ to see pictures.
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Motto: Persian: Esteqlāl, āzādī, jomhūrī-ye eslāmī\n(English: "Independence, freedom, (the) Islamic Republic") \nAnthem: Sorūd-e Mellī-e Īrān \n \nCapital Tehran\n35°40′N 44°26′E \nLargest city Tehran \nOfficial language(s) Persian \nGovernment Islamic Republic \n - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei \n - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad \nRevolution Overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  \n - Declared February 11, 1979  \nArea   \n - Total 1,648,195 km² (17th) \n  636,372 sq mi  \n - Water (%) 0.7% \nPopulation   \n - 2005 est. 68,467,413 [1] (18th) \n - 1996 census 60,055,488 [2] \n - Density 41/km² (128th)\n106/sq mi  \nGDP (PPP) 2005 estimate \n - Total $561,600,000,000 (19th) \n - Per capita $8,065 (74th) \nHDI (2006) 0.736 (99th) – medium \nCurrency Rial (ريال) (IRR) \nTime zone (UTC+3.30) \n - Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3.30) \nInternet TLD .ir \nCalling code +98 \nIran (Persian: ايران‎ ​, Īrān, also known in the international community as Persia), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎ ​ transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), is a country located in Southwest Asia. Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave), and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf, across which lie Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Shi'a Islam is the official state religion.\n\nThroughout history, Iran has been of great geostrategic importance due to its central location in Eurasia. Iran is a member and co-founder of the United Nations, the OIC, and OPEC. Iran is also significant in international politics on account of its large supply of petroleum and other resources. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the Aryans."\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Name \n2 History \n3 Politics \n3.1 The Supreme Leader \n3.2 Executive \n3.3 Parliament (The Majles) \n3.4 Judiciary \n3.5 Assembly of Experts \n3.6 Council of Guardians \n3.7 Expediency Council \n3.8 City and Village Councils \n4 Provinces \n5 Geography and climate \n6 Economy \n7 Demographics \n8 Major cities \n9 Culture \n10 See also \n11 References \n12 External links \n12.1 Government \n12.2 Other \n \n\n\n[edit]\nName\nMain article: Iran naming dispute \n \nIn antiquity, the names Ariana and Persis were used to describe the region, as exhibited on this world map by Eratosthenes (c. 200 BC).In former ages, the names Ariana and Persis were used to describe the region which is today known as the Iranian plateau. The earliest Iranian reference to the word (airya/arya/aryana etc), however, predates the Iranian prophet Zoroaster (est. anywhere between 1000 to 7000 BC.) and is attested in non-Gathic Avesta; it appears as airya, meaning noble/spiritual/elevated; as airya dainhava (Yt.8.36, 52) meaning the land of the Aryans; and as airyana vaejah, the original land of the Aryans. This term, it seems, was adopted in remote antiquity by Iranians as their national identity [2]; hence other peoples were called Anairya and later Aniranian, meaning un-aryan or non-Aryan, probably a derogatory racial designation.\n\nDuring the Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC), the Persian people called their provincial homeland Pārsa, the Old Persian name for Cyrus the Great's kingdom which belonged to the Persian tribe of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranians and which can still be found in the term Pars or Fars as part of the heartland of Iran and for example in the map by Eratosthenes and other historical or modern maps.\n\nHowever, the country as a whole was called Aryanam. The word Ariya, noble/spiritual/elevated, is attested in the Inscriptions of Darius the Great and his son, Xerxes; it is used both as a linguistic and a racial designation as evident as Darius refers to this at the Behistun inscription (DBiv.89), which is written
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IRAN..................rose\nPakisatan..........Jasmine
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Zoroastrisim is the religion of ancient iran.It is named after its founder,zoroast.its follower worship fire.When muslims conquered iran ,most of zoroastrians accept islam and remaining migrated to india where they are known as parsies(derived from persians)
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The capital of Iran is Tehran.  The links below will give you some more information.
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If you are looking for ancient cultures, cities from 4000 years ago, wonderful cities with lots of historic building with special architecture, variety of cultures, great museums, beautiful handicrafts, delicious food, beautiful handmade carpet and costumes,  beautiful nature, skiing, hiking, mountain climbing and nice funny people you may find iran really cool but if you like big casinos and discos and nude beaches and stuff like that you may be disappointed in iran.\nAlso iran is an islamic country but its rules are flexible specially for the tourists are really easy.
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Mostly Foreign states, but if you want one chosen i would have to say IRAN, a FASCIST state setting between two country's that will be working Democracies. Iran hates its own people and ARABS so much they kill them by the hundreds.
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Iran has been inhabited by human beings since pre-historic times and recent discoveries have begun to shed light upon what early human culture was like in Iran, centuries before the earliest civilizations arose in nearby Mesopotamia.[6] The written history of Persia (Iran) begins around 3200 BCE with the Proto-Elamite civilization, and continues with the arrival of the Aryans and the establishment of the Median dynasty, followed in 546 BCE by the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 331 BCE, only to be succeeded by the Parthian and Sassanid dynasties, which followed the Achaemenids, who had established the world's "largest and most powerful empire ever known in human history up until that point".[1]\n\nFollowing the Islamic conquest of Persia, the country was at the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, especially during the 9th to 11th centuries. The Middle Ages saw many critical events in the region. From 1220, Persia was invaded and destroyed by the Mongol invasion, followed later by Timur. Persia's first Shi'a Islamic state was established under the Safavid dynasty in 1501. Persia increasingly became the arena for rival colonial powers such as Imperial Russia and the British Empire.\n\nWith the rise of communism and modernization in the late 19th century, desire for change led to the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911. In 1921, Reza Shah Pahlavi staged a coup against the Qajar dynasty. A supporter of modernization, Reza Shah planned to develop industry, build railroads, and establish a national education system, but his autocratic rule created discontent among many Iranians.\n\nDuring World War II, Britain and the USSR invaded Iran from August 25 to September 17, 1941, mainly to secure Iran's oil resources and a supply corridor for themselves. The Allies of World War II forced the shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who they hoped would be more supportive of them. In 1953, following the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh attempted to convince the Shah to leave the country. The Shah refused, and formally dismissed the Prime Minister. Mossadegh also refused to leave, and when it became evident that he was going to fight, the Shah (as foreseen by the British/American "Operation Ajax") fled to Baghdad as a precautionary measure and on from there to Rome.\n\nMassive protests broke out across the nation. Anti- and pro-monarchy protestors violently clashed in the streets, leaving almost 300 dead. The military intervened as the pro-Shah tank regiments stormed the capital and bombarded the prime minister's official residence. Mossadegh surrendered, and was arrested on August 19, 1953. Mossadegh was tried for treason, and sentenced to three years in prison.\n\nThe Shah was reinstated and power handed to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by the U.S. and U.K., whose rule became increasingly dictatorial in the following years, particularly the late 1970s. With strong support from the US and UK, the Shah further modernized Iranian industry, but simultaneously crushed opposition from the Shia clergy and from advocates of democracy.\n\nRead more from Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#History\n\nThe written history of Iran begins with the early Achaemenids, some 2,500 years ago, but since then till the dawn of Islam in Iran, all that is available on the Iranian history has been written by the ancient Greeks, who were then Iran's greatest enemies. So, the pre-Islamic historical sources are not completely reliable although there are indications that Greek historians often faithfully recorded the facts. \n\nWas there no Iranian Herodotus or Xenophon, or were Iranian historical records destroyed in the many invasions that followed? The answer is not clear. But of the ancient past, certain mythological stories have survived which had been collected during the Sassanid era; an
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lol no there is iran and thats it
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Definitely not Arabic. The kingdom of Persia was located in what is now Iran. The ancient Persians spoke what is now known as Farsi. Farsi was given new life and preserved by the writing of the Shahnama, an epic poem written entirely in Persian. Most modern day Iranians are Persian, not Arabic. Also, there were any number of kings of that empire, the most famous was probably Cyrus the Great.