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Latest comment: 5 months ago by OfNoAccount in topic Anacronistic naming
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Anacronistic naming

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Can the use of the attribution, Iran and Iranian be justified when this is simply a very modern name.

Persia, and its other language equivalents, deserves a prominent place in putting this topic into historical perspective.

OfNoAccount (talk) 23:08, 28 March 2024 (UTC)Reply