User blog comment:Nostalgia of Iran/IPossible AC game set in Iran/@comment-5546424-20130908170706/@comment-4400541-20130923191620

"Persia" is the English word derived from the Hellenized "Persis", which, in turn, is derived from the Old Persian "Pârsa", the land that is known today as Fars Province ("Fars" is an Arabized rendering as Arabic has no [p] phoneme).