Place details
Place namePersia
Other namesPersien, Perse, Perzië, Pérsia
Latitude32
Longitude56
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Includes area of Persian culture roughly corresponding to modern Iran; name derived from a region of southern Iran known as Parsa inhabited by Indo-European people around 1000 BCE also known as Parsa; flourished during rule of Persian Achaemenid dynasty from 559 to 330 BCE, ended with conquest by Alexander the Great.