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The Fars territory or Ancient Persia or in terms of political history in the Sasanian Empire era and early Islamic period was a state and included the current provinces of Fars, Bushehr province, Hormozgan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and even Yazd province and Behbahan County of Khuzestan province.
The suffix -stan is analogous to the suffix -land, present in many country and location names.The suffix is also used more generally, as in Persian rigestân (ریگستان), "place of sand, desert"; golestân (گلستان), "place of flowers, garden"; gurestân (گورستان), "graveyard, cemetery"; [4] and Hendostân (هندوستان), "Land of the Indus ()".
Educated Ottoman Turks spoke Arabic and Persian, as these were the main foreign languages in the pre-Tanzimat era, with the former being used for science and the latter for literary affairs. [25] The spread of the Persian language through Rumi shrines made it the dialect of the Sufism. The Ottomans promoted and supported the Persian language.
Literally meaning "Land of the Lions" in Persian. Shusha Literally means "glass" and derives from New Persian Shīsha ("glass, vessel, bottle, flask"). [19] [20] Siazan The word Siyazan derives from the Tat words siya ("black") and zan ("woman"). Surakhani Xirdalan Zangilan Zardab Zardab is a Persian word (زردآب Zardab) meaning "yellow ...
The name "Iran", meaning "land of the Aryans", is the New Persian continuation of the old genitive plural aryānām (proto-Iranian, meaning "of the Aryans"), first attested in the Avesta as airyānąm (the text of which is composed in Avestan, an old Iranian language spoken in northeastern Greater Iran, or in what are now Afghanistan ...
Farsi Island (Persian: جزیره فارسی, romanized: jazīreye fârsī) is a tiny, barren Iranian island (Bushehr province) in the Persian Gulf. There is an IRGC Navy base on this island. The island has an area of about 0.25 km 2 (0.10 sq mi) and is restricted from the public.
Fars is the historical homeland of the Persian people. [14] [15] It was the homeland of the Achaemenid and Sasanian Persian dynasties of Iran, who reigned on the throne by the time of the ancient Persian Empires. The ruins of the Achaemenid capitals Pasargadae and Persepolis, among others, demonstrate the ancient history of the region.
Persepolis is derived from the Greek Περσέπολις, Persepolis, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις, together meaning "the Persian city" or "the city of the Persians"). To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which is also the word for the region of Persia. [6] [7]