Fars (territory)

Not to be confused with Fars Province.
The position of Fars in map of Iran in the era of Abbasid Caliphate taken from the book of The Lands of The Eastern Caliphate
The position of Fars on the shores of the Persian Gulf in the era of Abbasid Caliphate taken from the book of The Lands of The Eastern Caliphate

Fars territory or Ancient Persia (Persian: سرزمین فارس یا پارس کهن, in Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa)[1]) in the southern part of Iran leading to the Persian Gulf, which has historical, continental, cultural and especially dialectal commonalities and includes the provinces of Khuzestan, Fars, Esfahan, Bushehr, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Hormozgan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and the western part of Kerman Province, which is known as the origin of Persian language and inherited from Middle Persian.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Which is still culturally and linguistically distinct to this day.

In 558 BC, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) was born in Anshan (Persia), somewhere between the cities Izeh in the northeast of Khuzestan and the southwest of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. The Cyrus the Great founded Satrap of Persia (in place of present-day Marvdasht, north of Fars Province), then he moved Achaemenid Empire capital to Susa.[8]

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  6. ^ Salami, A. (2006). Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). Third Volume. The academy of Persian language and literature. ISBN 964-7531-39-7.
  7. ^ Salami, A. (2007). Ganjineye guyeššenâsiye Fârs (The treasury of the dialectology of Fars). Forth Volume. The academy of Persian language and literature. ISBN 964-7531-54-0.
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