Persia (disambiguation)
Persia, or Iran, is a country in Western Asia.
Persia may also refer to:
Places
- The Achaemenid Empire (550 BC–330 BC), an ancient Iranian empire based in Western Asia and founded by Cyrus the Great.
- The Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD)
- The Sasanian Empire (224–661)
- The Tahirid dynasty (821–873)
- The Alavid dynasty (864–928)
- The Saffarid dynasty (861–1003)
- The Samanid Empire (875–999)
- The Timurid dynasty (1369–1507)
- The Safavid dynasty (1501–1736)
- The Qajar dynasty (1785–1925)
- The Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979)
- Persia proper, a region located to the southwest of modern Iran (now Fars Province)
- Pars (Sasanian province)
- Greater Iran
- Persia, Iowa, a U.S. city
- Persia, New York, a U.S. town
- Persia, Tennessee, a U.S. unincorporated community
Other uses
- Persia (name), a Greek and Latin name for Iran
- Persia gens, an ancient Roman family
- Persia (trilobite)
- Persia (EP), a 1984 EP by The Church
- RMS Persia, a steamship built in 1856
- SS Persia, various steamships by this name
- Persia, the Magic Fairy, a 1984 anime series
See also
- Persian (disambiguation)
- Farsi (disambiguation)
- Parsi (disambiguation)
- Persis (disambiguation)
- Persian Empire (disambiguation)
- Pars (disambiguation)
- Fars (disambiguation)
- Parsa (disambiguation)
- List of Persia-related topics
- Prince of Persia, a video game franchise
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