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Accordingly, the relationships of their inhabitants vis-à-vis the rest of their respective empires and their domains’ significance for its imperial rulers is also homologous. At initially “Iran” sounded alien (for non-Iranians), and lots of failed to recognize its connection with Persia. Some thought that it was maybe 1 of the new countries like Iraq and Jordan carved out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, or a country in Africa or Southeast Asia that had just been granted independence and not a few confused it with Iraq, itself a current entity. The newest non-Catholic missionary enterprise in Persia was that...