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History of Iran. The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to the Indus River and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Central to this area is modern-day Iran, which covers the bulk of the Iranian Plateau.
Iran,[a][b]officially the Islamic Republic of Iran(IRI),[c]also known as Persia,[d]is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkeyto the northwest and Iraqto the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistanto the north, Afghanistanto the east, Pakistanto the southeast, the Gulf of Omanand the Persian Gulfto the south.
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, [ 16 ] also known as the Persian Empire[ 16 ] or First Persian Empire[ 17 ] (/ əˈkiːmənɪd /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [ 18 ] or 'The Kingdom' [ 19 ]), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it ...
Map of Administrative Subdivisions of Iran in 1911, Tehran, Eyalats, and Velayats Iran has held its modern territory since the Treaty of Paris in 1857. Prior to 1937, Iran had maintained its feudal administrative divisional structure, dating back to the time the modern state was centralized by the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century.
Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically Xinjiang)—all of which have been affected, to some degree ...
Saladin, a noted adversary of the Crusaders, was an ethnic Kurd, while various empires centered in Iran (including the Safavids) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and the Caucasus. Iranian influence was also an principal factor in the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman ...
The Iranian Plateau[1] or Persian Plateau[2][3] is a geological feature spanning parts of the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. It makes up part of the Eurasian Plate, and is wedged between the Arabian Plate and the Indian Plate. The plateau is situated between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Köpet ...
Name of Iran. Map of West Asia in 1872, with Iran/Persia (ruled by the Qajar dynasty) shaded in pink. Historically, Iran was commonly referred to as "Persia" in the Western world. [1] Likewise, the modern-day ethnonym "Persian" was typically used as a demonym for all Iranian nationals, regardless of whether or not they were ethnic Persians.