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Marshall

In my opinion Persia sounds better

Gary

Iraq used to be Babylon.

* Seshati *

One of the oldest cultures I love watching documentaries on ancient worlds wow some of the architecture & artefacts left from the early years are simply stunning, so many cultures get destroyed by others & Iran is no exception sadly.

Player Elf Council

Gary, Babylon was a city, not a country.

Ironstine

they speak Farsi .. which is a cognate (corrupted away from same word ) as Persian..... the Persians were just the ruling clique at one time .... before Persia there was a country called Elam ...

zain

Ironstine, actually persia is the corrupted word. the actual name of the countrybwas Faras and the language was called farsi meaning " the language of Faras"

Player #50858925

i think Iraq is formerly Mesopotamia.

Taranchalanche

My beloved cat was Iran Ian. But from way back.

Player #29211091

Actually different tribes as kurd, Arab and Turk living there and word of Persia refer to Persian only then great Reza shah changed the name from Persia to Iran cause of solidarity between tribes.

BrainTek

it's unfortunate that Iran won't allow archeological explorations

Player #120374466

Persia had part in fulfilling Bible prophesy in aiding the exiled Isrealites to return home to Judea and to rebuild the temple and the city of Jerusalem.

Luis

another interesting history Persians were arch enemies w/the Greeks

Lam Vy Da

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peykansiah, Iran in 1935. Before there was not any other countries?🤨

I

The Ahamanish, The Safavids and others didn't call it either Persia or Iran. Even travellers wrote about it.

I

Player #57167, Persia was not only Iran. Several modern countries were in Persia.

Player #107679064

Player Elf Council, Babylon refers to Iraq

Player #62752956

Ironstine, Elam was well established at the time of Sumer, a couple thousand years before the Iranians migrated in. However Elam was only a small part of what is now Iran.