Fars - Definition


Fars - Definition

Fars is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country. Its center is Shiraz.

Roughly, Fars is the original homeland of the Persian people. The native name of the Persian language is Farsi or Parsi. Persia and Persian both derive from the Hellenized form Persis of the root word Pars. Fars is arabicized version of Pars. The Old Persian word was P�rs�.

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External links

Official website of Fars Governorship (http://www.farsprovince.com/)

Provinces of Iran
Ardabil \| Bushehr \| Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari \| East Azarbaijan \| Isfahan \| Fars \| Guilan \| Golestan \| Hamadan \| Hormozgan \| Ilam \| Kerman \| Kermanshah \| Khuzestan \| Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad \| Kurdistan \| Lorestan \| Markazi \| Mazandaran \| North Khorasan \| Qazvin \| Qom \| Razavi Khorasan \| Semnan \| Sistan and Baluchistan \| South Khorasan \| Tehran \| West Azarbaijan \| Yazd \| Zanjan

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