Persia (disambiguation)
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Persia may refer to the following:
- Persia is the Western name for Iran before March, 1935. Since 1959, the name 'Persia' can officially be used again.[1](See also: Iran naming dispute.)
- The Persian Empire of ancient and medieval times.
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It may also refer to the following places:
In other uses, it may also refer to:
- SS Persia (1856), a transatlantic ocean liner built in 1856 by Cunard Line, and which struck an iceberg in the same year
- SS Persia (1900), a British ocean liner sunk by U-boat in 1915
- Persia (ep), a 1984 extended-play record by Australian rock band "The Church"
- Prince of Persia, the videogame
[edit] See also
- Persian
- List of Persia-related topics
- Pershore, the place in Worcestershire, England
[edit] References
- ^ Pejman Akbarzadeh (2005-09-20). A Note on the terms "Iran" and "Persia". Payvand's Iran News. NetNative. Retrieved on 2007-05-03. “After some Persian scholars protested this announcement, in 1959 Prof. Ehsan Yarshater made a committee to research this matter. The committee announced that "changing the name has not been right", so Mohammad Reza Shah announced ...”
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