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Pars
Pars, the region known to the Greeks as Persis and today the province of Fars in south-western Iran, was the homeland of the Persians. It was the heartland of the Achaemenid dynasty. Ardashir I, a local ruler of Pars, overthrew the Parthians in 224 CE and founded the Sasanian Empire.
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