HOW DID PERSIA “BECOME” IRAN? THE STORY MOST PEOPLE NEVER HEARD

2026-03-06 - 08:28

HOW DID PERSIA “BECOME” IRAN? THE STORY MOST PEOPLE NEVER HEARD For thousands of years the world knew this land by one name: Persia. It was the empire of Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes — a civilization so powerful it once ruled from the Mediterranean to India. Persia built roads, legal systems, massive cities,