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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Captain00: [qb] Iranians themselves never reffered to Iran as Persia, it was Aryanam and the Sassanids were the ones who coined up the term E-ran. Please don't mix the nonsense of the nazi's with iran. Europeans just want make claim to history of iran. [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes, you are correct, it WAS Aryanam (the word is actually "Achaemenians") and the Sassanians who PERSIA refers to. Aryans is what the Medes were originally called. It is in the north-central Zagros region that we first find mention of Parsua, a nation that many regard as a predecessor nation to Parsa or Persia. This mention was in an inscription from 844 BCE that records an Assyrian military expedition into the Zagros. We first hear about Parsua in the inscriptions of Assyrian King Shalmaneser III (859-824 BCE) who, in the fashion of other Assyrian kings, maintained a record of his campaigns. In 844 BCE, Shalmaneser overran northern Zamua, the Mannaean kingdom around Lake Urmia, Allabria (often associated with Mannea), Parsua, Madai (Media), Araziash (later associated with Media), and Harhar. [Harhar (around present-day Kermanshah) which stood at the western entrance to Media lands eventually became Assyria's administrative centre for Media.] In the inscriptions recording these plundering raids, Shalmaneser states that he extracted tribute from twenty-seven kings or chieftains of Parsua. With the considerable number of groups or nations mentioned in Shalmaneser's inscriptions, we are also introduced to the concept that the Parsa and other peoples of the region were organized as a large number of distinct groups - each ruled by local kings or chieftains (rather than a few united kingdoms). We therefore gather from the Assyrian inscriptions that until this time in history, the Medes and the Persians were organized as loose federations of autonomous districts - each district with its own king or chief. The Parsua later migrated south, into what is now called Fars, in southwestern Iran. [IMG]http://www.realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Elam/Map_ancient_kingdoms.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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