Persia

This source names Persia directly: "execution of his closest disciples in Persia, ending the faith's status as a tolerated royal project in its own homeland."

This source names Persia directly: "empire, treating it as a subversive Persian sect at a time of open war between Rome and Persia, a suspicion of foreign loyalty layered on top of the same charge of heresy that had already ended..."

This source names Persia directly: "Returning to Persia, he won the protection of the Sasanian king Shapur I around 241 to 242, a patronage that lasted roughly three decades and let Mani's teaching, a dualist faith holding light and..."

This source names Persia directly: "his plot against the Jewish people of Persia was exposed to King Ahasuerus."

The Sasanian state made Zoroastrianism the religion of Persia in a way no earlier Persian empire had.

This source names Persia directly: "Sasanian dynasty made Zoroastrianism Persia's state religion in 224, already recorded here, and three hundred seventy one years before the Arab conquest ended Zoroastrian rule in Persia beginning in..."

This source names Persia directly: "the Faith from a community centered on Persia and the Ottoman Levant into a religion established on every continent."

This source names Persia directly: "to 23 May 1844 in Shiraz, then part of Persia and in present day Iran: when the young cleric Mulla Husayn came seeking a teacher, the Bab declared himself the bearer of new divine revelation, and..."

This source names Persia directly: "in his home in Shiraz, then part of Persia and in present day Iran, a young merchant named Siyyid Ali-Muhammad declared himself the Bab, the bearer of a new divine revelation, to a visiting cleric..."

This source names Persia directly: "the 1844 declaration of the Bab in Persia and the founding of the Baha'i Faith."

This source names Persia directly: "the Bab's 1844 declaration in Persia and "the foundations of a new faith tradition," narrated by Yaani King Mondschein, featuring Dr."

This source names Persia directly: "after Bahram I ended the faith's Persian patronage, the Uyghur ruler accepted Manichaeism as the official religion of his Central Asian empire in 762 CE, after meeting Manichaean priests during a..."

Avestan is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.

Zoroastrian law gives the dog a status close to the human one, and the sagdid, the gaze of the dog, is required at a death.

Middle Persian is documented in use as a written language in Persia. Middle Persian, in its Book Pahlavi form, carries the bulk of the surviving Zoroastrian commentary literature. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.

Old Avestan (Gathic) is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.

Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel of the Yazidis, and the peacock throne of the shahs.

The roc is an Arabic and Persian traveller's marvel rather than a cult figure, carried in the wonder literature of both languages about the edges of the known world.

The cock of Zoroastrian tradition, whose crowing drives off the demons of the night.

Younger Avestan is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.

Nishapur lies in Khurasan, in the Persian world.

The pit was in Tehran.

Persia corresponds to modern Iran.

Arbela in Adiabene and the Sasanian capital Seleucia-Ctesiphon, mapped to the wider Persia region as the closer historical match to the Sasanian Empire than the modern country of Iran.