Personally, I prefer "Persia" ... one speaks of Persian Miniature Paintings, Persian Rugs, Persian Rice ... Persian Cats .... somehow the romance is not there, to my ear!
I am sure there is a reason, but I am just wondering if anyone here happens to know what it is. Thank you.
2007-10-13 03:52:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Ops! I can't believe I did this ....I am so aware of the difference, but somehow I quess Iraq was on my mind....apologies to you from me and thank you for understanding.
2007-10-13 04:36:41 · update #1
er.....the difference between Iran and Iraq ...my head is in the clouds today....sorry
2007-10-13 06:14:15 · update #2
Persia was Iran and not Iraq
2007-10-13 03:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by mary 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reza Shah ordered the change in name for Iran because the country included more territory than historic Persia did.
Sorta like the Netherlands. Many people call it Holland, but Holland is just a *region* of the Netherlands.
(There oughta be a law against making "the" part of the name of something, like The Netherlands, or The Hague, or The Plaza, as "the" indicates genericity - one instance of multiple.)
2007-10-13 11:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mesopotamia was renamed Iraq, which is what the Arabs call it. The name has nothing to do with ancient cities, but just means something like 'the mudbank'.
Reza Shah asked foreigners to call Persia Iran, which was what the locals called it. To me its just more third world guff - you never hear the Germans demanding that everyone call their country Deutschland, nor the English complaining that the French call their capital Londres.
2007-10-14 06:38:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name Iran is a reference to the Aryans, a group of people identified by common elements in certain languages and with whom Hitler mistakenly identified his idealised version of the Germans.
Mesopotamia was renamed Iraq because it was the name of one of the very early cities Uruq there.
2007-10-13 12:31:30 · answer #4 · answered by David P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Iran, not Iraq, and I think it probably had something to do with the Islamic revolution (Ayatollah Kohmeini, excuse spelling) and they probably wanted to distance themselves from the relative liberalness of Persia under the Shah.
2007-10-13 11:07:47 · answer #5 · answered by quierounvaquero 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
problem some think it was changed after the revolution but i do remember that the shah was known as the shah of iran before they got rid of the CIA lipsickle.
2007-10-15 18:55:56 · answer #6 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong! It was changed to IRAN (by the mullahs)
2007-10-13 17:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by captbullshot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoops
i think you mean why was persia changed to iran?
2007-10-13 11:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by Tequila.... 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Paul Ding is confusing "the" with "a".
2007-10-13 11:08:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THEY NEVER DID THEY CHANGED IT TO IRAN IRAQ IS A DIFFERENT COUNTRY
2007-10-13 10:57:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋