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Per·sia [ púrə ]
1.
Former name for Iran
2. ancient empire in Southwest Asia that, at its height under Darius the Great in the 6th century bc, stretched from the shores of the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus River in present-day Pakistan. It was conquered by Alexander the Great in 330 bc. |
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