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Iran History

History of Iran and Greater Iran (also referred to as the "Iranian Cultural Continent" by the Encyclopedia Iranica)—- consisting areas from Euphrates in the west to Indus River and Jaxartes in the east and from Caucasus, Caspian sea and Aral Sea in the north to Persian gulf and Gulf of Oman in the south which includes the modern nations Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, eastern part of Turkey and Iraq and surrounding regions which is one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations. — covers thousands of years, from the ancient civilization on the Iranian plateau, Mannaeans civilization in Azarbaijan, Shahr-i Sokhta (Burned City) near Zabol in Sistan va Baluchestan, and the ancient Kingdom of Jiroft in Kerman followed by the kingdom of Elam and the Median, Achaemenid, the Parthian, the Sassanian dynasties and following Empires to the modern Islamic Republic of Iran.

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