Iran
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Iran
Iran englanniksi
(senseid)(place).
''ca.'' 1675, Jean Chardin (Sir John Chardin), ''Travels in Persia, 1673-1677'', fasc. reprint 1988, Dover, page 126:
- "The ''Persians'', in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce ''Iroun'', and ''Iran''."
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{{quote-book|en|year=2005|editor=Massoume Price|title=Iran's Diverse Peoples|publisher=ABC-Clio|page=xiii
regions inhabited by the Iranian peoples.
1882, James Darmesteter, ''The Zend-Avesta'', volume 1 (''SBE'', volume 31), Oxford UP, page 7, xxviii:
- "Kavi means a king, but it is particularly used of the kings belonging to the second and most celebrated of the two mythical dynasties of Iran."
- "One certain fact is the occurrence of geographical names Sogdiana, etc in Vendidad I, which are obviously intended to describe the earliest homes of the Iranian races whose lore was the Avesta."
{{quote-text|en|year=1909|editor=John Huston Finley|chapter=Iran|title=Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopaedia|volume=6|page=479
{{quote-book|en|year=1985|author=J. M. Cooke|chapter=The Rise of the Achaemenids|title=Cambridge Historiy of Iran|volume=2|page=290
{{quote-book|en|year=1990|author=Hubert Darke|chapter=Cambridge History of Iran|title=Encyclopedia Iranica|volume=4|page=724
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(ja-romanization of)