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Per⋅sia

  [pur-zhuh, -shuh]
–noun
1. Also called Persian Empire. an ancient empire located in W and SW Asia: at its height it extended from Egypt and the Aegean to India; conquered by Alexander the Great 334–331 b.c.
2. former official name (until 1935) of Iran.
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Per·sia   (pûr'zhə, -shə)   

  1. also Persian Empire A vast empire of southwest Asia founded by Cyrus II after 546 B.C. and brought to the height of its power and glory by Darius I and his son Xerxes. Eventually the empire extended from the Indus River valley in present-day Pakistan to the Mediterranean Sea before Alexander the Great conquered it between 333 and 331 B.C.

  2. See Iran.

Persian Empire  
See Persia.
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