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| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
I don't understand what "persian" means
if you're from Iran, you're Iranian.
if you're from Iraq, you're Iraqi.
no?
Does it have anything to do with language?
To my knowledge, "Persian" is not a language. Do most Iranians not speak Farsi? |
I guess most that call themselves Persian is that so you think of the Persian carpet and Persian cat instead of the Atomic bomb and Terrorists..lol!
but here goes nothing;
Iran (Persian: ايران, /irɒn/↔Iran_alborz.ogg [ʔiˈɾɒn] (help·info)), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persia until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia,[5] located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Since 1949, "Persia" and "Iran" have been used interchangeably in cultural context, however, Iran is the name used officially in political context. The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan, and means "Land of the Aryans".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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