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IRAN , the See also:great See also:plateau between the See also:plain of the See also:Tigris in the See also:west and the valley of the See also:Indus in the See also:east, the See also:Caspian See also:Sea and the Turanian See also:desert in the See also:north, and the See also:Persian Gulf and the See also:Indian Ocean in the See also:south, surrounded on all sides by high See also:mountain ranges with a great See also:salt desert in the centre. The See also:modern name Iran, in See also:middle-Persian Eran (a See also:form preferred by many See also:German authors) is derived from the See also:ancient Aryana, " the See also:country of the See also:Aryans," i.e. that See also:part of the Aryans which we See also:call Iranians. Eratosthenes limited the name of Ariana to the south-eastern part of Iran, and excluded See also:Persia, See also:Media and See also:Bactria, and therein he is followed by See also:Strabo (ii. 78, 130, RV. 720 ff.; Pomp. See also:Mela 3; See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 113, 116, xii. 33) ; Pliny (Nat. Hist. vi. 93) confounds it with See also:Aria, Areia, Pers. Haraiva, i.e. the See also:district of See also:Herat; but Strabo himself says (xv. 724) that some extended the name to the Persians, Medes, Bactrians and Sogdians, as they all spoke the same See also:language with small See also:dialectic See also:variations (cf. 727 and i. 66, xi. 523). For the ethnography and See also:history of Iran see PERSIA. (ED. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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