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Revision as of 18:31, 21 August 2009 by Folantin (talk | contribs) (more accurate)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Persian Empire is a term used to refer to several empires in the history of Iran, which was previously known as Persia.
In the strictest sense, the term is only correctly used to refer to the Achaemenid Empire (550 BC–330 BC) and the Sassanid Empire (224–651 AD), empires whose dynasties originated in the region of Persis (now Fars). However, "Persian Empire" is often used in a general sense to refer to the Parthian Empire of the Arsacids (who ruled an empire centred in Iran in the period between the decline of the Middle Eastern Hellenistic Seleucid Empire and the establishment of the Sassanids) as well as the much later, Islamic realms ruled by the Shahs of Iran of the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties between 1501 and 1979.
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