"Persia (EP) Persia is the fourth extended play by the Australian psychedelic rock band the Church, which was released in August 1984. It was the follow=up to their earlier 1984 EP ""Remote Luxury"", and continued in a similar stylistic vein. The material from both five-track EPs was collected for international release on a compilation album, also called ""Remote Luxury"", later in 1984. In 2001, EMI Australia released another compilation album, ""Sing-Songs//Remote Luxury//Persia"" (see also, ""Sing-Songs""), which had remastered versions of all tracks from each of the three EPs, in their original running order. The Church released two extended plays in"
"Persis Persis (), better known as Persia (Old Persian: ""Parsa""; , ""Pars""), or ""Persia proper"", was originally a name of a region near the Zagros mountains at Lake Urmia. The country name Persia was derived directly from the Old Persian ""Parsa"". Over time, the area of settlement shifted to the southwest of modern Iran (now Fars). The ancient Persians were present in the region from about the 10th century BC, and became the rulers of the largest empire the world had yet seen under the Achaemenid dynasty which was established in the late 6th century BC, at its peak stretching"
"""Pārsa"" – the name of the people from whom Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty stemmed and over whom he first ruled (before he inherited or conquered other Iranian Kingdoms). Thus, the term ""Persian"" is an exonym and Iranians never historically referred to Iran by that exonym. The Pars tribe gave its name to the region where they lived (the modern day province is called Fars/Pars) but the province in ancient times was smaller than its current area. In Latin, the name for the whole empire was ""Persia"", while the Iranians knew it as ""Iran"" or ""Iranshahr"". In the"
"many Iranians in the West who prefer ""Persia"" and ""Persian"" as the English names for the country and nationality, similar to the usage of ""La Perse/persan"" in French. According to Hooman Majd, the popularity of the term ""Persia"" among the Persian diaspora stems from the fact that Persia' connotes a glorious past they would like to be identified with, while 'Iran' since 1979 revolution... says nothing to the world but Islamic fundamentalism."" Name of Iran In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi"
"Persian is the name of one of the ethnic groups of Iran, Persia (locally known as Pars) is the name of one of Iran's significant cultural provinces and the Persian language Although (internally) the country had been referred to as Iran throughout much of its history since the Sasanian Empire, many countries including the English-speaking world knew the country as Persia, a legacy of the Greeks who referred to the entire country after the province of Pars. While Persians are only one of several ethnic groups in Iran, their home province Pars was a center of political power in ancient"
"History of Iran The history of Iran, commonly also known as Persia in the Western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also to an extent known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia, the Bosphorus, and Egypt in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east, and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back"
"this very day, the king of Persia is call'd ""Padsha Iran"" [""padshah""='king'], and the great vizier, ""Iran Medary"" [i.e. ""medari""='facilitator'], the Pole of Persia"""". Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the official name of the country is ""Islamic Republic of Iran"". Iran (word) The modern Persian name of Iran () derives immediately from 3rd-century Sassanian Middle Persian (Pahlavi spelling: ""ʼyrʼn""), where it initially meant ""of the Iranians"", but soon also acquired a geographical connotation in the sense of ""(lands inhabited by) Iranians"". In both geographic and demonymic senses, ""ērān"" is distinguished from its antonymic ""anērān"", meaning ""non-Iran(ian)"". In the geographic"
"""Persia"" was a term used by Western peoples for the country called ""Iran"" in Persian. His successor, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, announced in 1959 that both Persia and Iran were acceptable and could be used interchangeably. Reza Shah tried to avoid involvement with the UK and the Soviet Union. Though many of his development projects required foreign technical expertise, he avoided awarding contracts to British and Soviet companies because of dissatisfaction during the Qajar Dynasty between Persia, the UK, and the Soviets. Although the UK, through its ownership of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, controlled all of Iran's oil resources, Rezā Shāh"
"Persian Legation in Berlin, the Tehran government, on the Persian New Year, Nowruz, March 21, 1935, substituted ""Iran"" for ""Persia"" as the official name of the country."" Opposition to the name change led to the reversal of the decision, and Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of ""Encyclopædia Iranica"", propagated a move to use ""Persia"" and ""Iran"" interchangeably. Today, both ""Iran"" and ""Persia"" are used in cultural contexts, while ""Iran"" remains irreplaceable in official state contexts. Historical and cultural usage of the word ""Iran"" is not restricted to the modern state proper. ""Greater Iran"" (""Irānzamīn"" or ""Irān e Bozorg"") refers to territories"
"Iran Iran ( ), also called Persia () and officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran ( ), is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th most populous country. Comprising a land area of , it is the second largest country in the Middle East and the 17th largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf"
"to the fact that, in the Western world, Iran was known as ""Persia"". On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire, in formal correspondence. Since then the use of the word ""Iran"" has become more common in the Western countries. This also changed the usage of the terms for Iranian nationality, and the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from ""Persian"" to ""Iranian"". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both ""Persia"" and"
"later parts of the Bible, where this kingdom is frequently mentioned (Books of Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah), it is called ' (), or sometimes ' (), i.e. ""Persia and Media"". The Arabs used to likewise refer to Iran and the Persian (Sassanian) Empire as """" (), i.e. ""Lands of Persia"", which would become the popular name for the region in Muslim literature. The exonym ""Persia"" was the official name of Iran in the Western world before March 1935, but the Iranian people inside their country since the time of Zoroaster (probably circa 1000 BC), or even before, have called"
"Persia, Jamshid, whose name also incorporates the element ""sun"" (""shid""). Karl Hoffmann has suggested a translation based on the meaning of an Indo-European-root ""to humiliate"" and accordingly ""Cyrus"" means ""humiliator of the enemy in verbal contest"". In the Persian language and especially in Iran, Cyrus's name is spelled as . In the Bible, he is known as Koresh (). The Persian domination and kingdom in the Iranian plateau started by an extension of the Achaemenid dynasty, who expanded their earlier domination possibly from the 9th century BC onward. The eponymous founder of this dynasty was Achaemenes (from Old Persian ""Haxāmaniš"")."
"is held by Iran. In 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire established the first ancient empire in Persis (""Pars"", or modern ""Fars""), in the southwestern region of the Iranian plateau. Consequently, in the Greek sources, the body of water that bordered this province came to be known as the ""Persian Gulf"". During the years 550 to 330 BC, coinciding with the sovereignty of the Achaemenid Persian Empire over the Middle East area, especially the whole part of the Persian Gulf and some parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the name of ""Pars Sea"" is widely found in the compiled written texts. In"
"(From Latin ""Persia"", from Ancient Greek , ""Persís""), found in many ancient names associated with Iran, is derived from the historical importance of this region. Fars Province is the original homeland of the Persian people. The New Persian word ""Fârs"" () is the Arabized form of the earlier form ""Pârs"" (), which is in turn derived from """" (), the Old Persian name for the Persis region. The ancient Persians were present in the region from about the 10th century BC, and became the rulers of the largest empire the world had yet seen under the Achaemenid dynasty which was"
"Name of Iran In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence. Since then, in the Western World, the use of the word ""Iran"" has become more common. This also changed the usage of the terms for Iranian nationality, and the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from ""Persian"" to ""Iranian"". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both"
"there were hundreds of Germans involved in every aspect of the state, from setting up factories to building roads, railroads and bridges. Reza Shah went on to ask the international community to use the native name of ""Iran"" in 1935 to address to his country. Although the country has been known as Iran to the native people themselves for many centuries, Westerners came to know the nation as Persia through ancient Greek accounts. The goal was to distract attention from the traditional Western designation “Persia” (a term Greek in origin). “Persian” was the historical name of one of the ethnic"
"the name ""Iran"" instead of ""Persia"" for all purposes. In the British House of Commons the move was reported upon by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as follows: The decree of Reza Shah Pahlavi affecting nomenclature duly took effect on 21 March 1935. To avoid confusion between the two neighboring countries Iran and Iraq, which were both involved in WWII and occupied by the Allies, Winston Churchill requested from the Iranian government during the Teheran Conference for the old and distinct name ""Persia to be used by the United Nations [i.e., the Allies] for the duration"
"again favorable to the British (although the D'Arcy Concession was softened). On 21 March 1935, Reza Shah changed the name of the country from Persia to Iran. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was then renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). In 1941, after the Nazi invasion of the USSR, the British and Commonwealth of Nations forces and the Red Army invaded Iran. Reza Shah had declared neutrality in World War II, and tried to balance between the two major powers, Britain and Nazi Germany. The primary reason for the invasion was in order to secure Iran's oil fields and the Trans-Iranian"
"as well. Despite the lasting conflict between the two states, many Athenians adopted Achaemenid customs in their daily lives in a reciprocal cultural exchange, some being employed by or allied to the Persian kings. The impact of Cyrus's edict is mentioned in Judeo-Christian texts, and the empire was instrumental in the spread of Zoroastrianism as far east as China. The empire also set the tone for the politics, heritage and history of Iran (also officially known as Persia). The Achaemenid Empire was created by nomadic Persians. The name ""Persia"" is a Greek and Latin pronunciation of the native word referring"
"Military history of Iran With thousands of years of recorded history, and due to an unchanging geographic (and subsequently geopolitical) condition, Iran (previously known as Persia in the West until 1935) has had a long, varied, and checkered military culture and history, ranging from triumphant and unchallenged ancient military supremacy affording effective superpower status in its day, to a series of near catastrophic defeats (beginning with the destruction of Elam) at the hand of previously subdued and conquered peripheral nations (including Greece, Macedon and the Asiatic nomadic tribes at the Eastern boundary of the lands traditionally home to the Iranian"
"to the country of the people originating from Persis (Old Persian: , ""Pārsa""), their home territory located north of the Persian Gulf in southwestern Iran. The Achaemenid Empire was not the first Iranian empire, as by 6th century BC another group of ancient Iranian peoples had already established the short-lived Median Empire. The Medes had originally been the dominant Iranian group in the region, freeing themselves of Assyrian domination and rising to power at the end of the seventh century BC, incorporating the Persians into their empire. The Iranian peoples had arrived in the region of what is today Iran"
"online store of Digikala, which has around 750,000 visitors per day and more than 2.3 million subscribers and is the most visited online store in the Middle East. Iran Iran ( ), also called Persia () and officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran ( ), is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th most populous country. Comprising a land area of , it is the second largest country in the Middle East and the 17th largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic"
"Persian Empire The Persian Empire (, translit. """", lit. 'Imperial Iran') refers to any of a series of imperial dynasties that were centred in Persia/Iran from the 6th century BC Achaemenid Empire era to the 20th century AD in the Qajar dynasty era. The first dynasty of the Persian Empire was created by Achaemenids, established by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC with the conquest of Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires. It covered much of the Ancient world when it was conquered by Alexander the Great. Persepolis is the most famous historical site related to Persian Empire in the Achaemenid"
"Persian Iraq Persian Iraq, also uncommonly spelled Persian Irak ( ""Arâq-e Ajam""; ""'Irāq al-'Ajam"" or ""'Irāq 'Ajami""), is a historical region of the western parts of Iran. From the 11th to 19th centuries, the name ""Iraq"" referred to two neighbouring regions: Arabic Iraq (""ʿIrāq-i ʿArab"") and Persian Iraq (""ʿIrāq-i ʿAjam""). Arabic Iraq corresponded with ancient Babylonia (now Iraq) and Persian Iraq corresponded with ancient Media (now western Iran). The two regions were separated by the Zagros Mountains. Later, until the beginning of the 20th century, the term ""Iraq"" in Iran was used to refer to a much smaller region south"
"his invasion of Greece, but ultimately failed to do so. Although Persis was originally one of the provinces of ancient Iran, varieties of this term (e.g. ""Persia"") were adopted through Greek sources and used as an official name for all of Iran for many years. Thus, in the Western world, the term ""Persian"" came to refer to all inhabitants of the country. Some medieval and early modern Islamic sources also used cognates of the term ""Persian"" to refer to various Iranian peoples, including the speakers of the Khwarezmian language, the Mazanderani language, and the Old Azeri language. 10th-century Iraqi historian"
"route to be developed to supply Soviet needs. English-language official documents from the Persian Corridor period continue to make the word ""Persia"" interchangeable with the name of Iran. In correspondence by the government of the United Kingdom, usage of ""Persia"" over ""Iran"" was chosen by Winston Churchill to avoid possible confusion with neighbouring Iraq. Following Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union became allies. Britain and the USSR saw the newly opened Trans-Iranian Railway as an attractive route to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union. Britain and the USSR used"
"""Persia"" and ""Iran"" could officially be used interchangeably. However the issue is still debated today. The name ""Irān"" is 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 Turkmenistan and Tajikistan). The Modern Persian word ""Īrān"" () derives immediately from Middle Persian ""Ērān"" (Pahlavi spelling: ""ʼyrʼn""), first attested in an inscription that accompanies the investiture relief of the first Sassanid king Ardashir I at Naqsh-e Rustam. In this inscription, the king's Middle Persian appellation is ""ardašīr šāhān šāh ērān"" while"
"Persepolis Persepolis (, ) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (). It is situated northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BCE. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture. UNESCO declared the ruins of Persepolis a World Heritage Site in 1979. The English word """" is derived from Greek ""Persépolis"" (), a compound of ""Pérsēs"" () and ""pólis"" (), meaning ""the Persian city"" or ""the city of the Persians"". To the ancient Persians, the city was known as ""Pārsa"" (), which is also the word for"
"Greater Khorasan Khorasan (Middle Persian: ; ""Xorāsān"", ), sometimes called Greater Khorasan, is a historical region lying in northeast of Greater Persia, including part of Central Asia and Afghanistan. The name simply means ""East, Orient"" (literally ""sunrise"") and loosely includes the territory of the Sasanian Empire north-east of Persia proper. Early Islamic usage often regarded everywhere east of so-called Jibal or what was subsequently termed 'Iraq Ajami' (Persian Iraq), as being included in a vast and loosely-defined region of Khorasan, which might even extend to the Indus Valley and Sindh. During the Islamic period, Khorasan along with Persian Iraq were"
"Iran (Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula. According to the book ""Documents on the Persian Gulf's Name, the Eternal Heritage of Ancient Time"": the term ""Persian Gulf"" and its equivalents have been used continuously since 400 BC in all languages specially in the Arabic language. In 1964 the Arab League ratified a change of the name to the Arabian Gulf (Al khaleej Al Arabi), apparently a change accepted by many Arab-speaking countries. After the Iran–Iraq War, the decision was realised. The act angered Iran/Iranians, especially when the Arabs used the new appellation in the English mass media. While historical documents show"
"in 2016 for the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Persian Gulf naming dispute The Persian Gulf naming dispute is concerned with the name of the body of water known historically and internationally as the Persian Gulf (), after the land of Persia (the traditional name of Iran). This name has become contested by some Arab countries since the 1960s in connection with the emergence of pan-Arabism and Arab nationalism, resulting in the invention of the toponym ""Arabian Gulf"" () (used in some Arab countries), ""the Gulf"" and other alternatives such as the ""Gulf of Basra"", as it was known"
"mainly to the writings of Greek historians who referred to all of Iran as (; from Old Persian ), meaning ""land of the Persians"", while Persis itself was one of the provinces of ancient Iran that is today defined as Fars. As the most extensive interaction the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, the term persisted, even long after the Persian rule in Greece. In 1935, Reza Shah requested the international community to refer to the country by its native name, ""Iran"". As ""The New York Times"" explained at the time, ""At the suggestion of the"