On 06/11/2011 05:32 AM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > So Iranians from the first day called their country Eran or Iran and > Greeks and West world called it Persia. There is no disagreement between > Iranians for the English version of the language. All Iranians believe > that the language should be called Persian in English.
The Biblical books that deal with Persia call it "Paras"; the Talmud (written in nearby Babylonia c. 500 CE) refers to someone who comes from there as a "Parsi". There may have also been a distinction between the name for the region as opposed to the name of the empire, making the situation somewhat less clear. --Joel -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex