The Siamese Diaries
The identify Persia derives from Parsa, the identify on the Indo-European nomadic individuals who migrated into southern Iran—to an area then identified as Persis—about 1000 bce. The main written reference for the Parsa takes place inside the annals of Shalmaneser II, an Assyrian king, who reigned inside the ninth century bce. Since the Parsa e