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			'''Persia''' may refer to the following:
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Persia may refer to the following:

Iran, the country's exonym, officially and unofficially, in the West until 1935 was Persia. In that year the official exonym was equated with the ancient endonym, Iran, per Reza Shah Pahlavi's request. Unofficial use of the exonym by both Iranians and non-Iranians continues to this day.
Quajari Persia
Fars Province, a province in Iran, Fars being Persian, for Persia
Persis or Pārs, a historic region in southwest Persia and the original power base of Achaemenids
Persian Empire
Persia, California
SS Persia (1900), British ocean liner sunk by U-boat in 1915
Persia (EP), 1984 extended-play record by Australian rock band The Church
Persia, the Magic Fairy, a 1984 magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot
Persia, Iowa

Persia is also a fictional empire from the Middle-Eastern folk tale, Aladdin.