Persis, ancient country in the southwestern part of iran, roughly coextensive with the modern region of fārs Its name was derived from the iranian tribe of the parsua (parsuash Persians), who settled there in the 7th century bc. It may seem strange to find it classed as a neighbour. This region roughly corresponds to the modern province of fars. Persis was the heartland of the ancient persian civilization, where the achaemenid empire was born in the 6th century bce
Following alexander the great ’s conquest of persia in 330 bce, persis came under hellenistic rule under the seleucid empire. Persis was the persian homeland, a land of river basins and plateaus which stretched forth from the zagros mountains Although persis (persia proper) was only one of the provinces of ancient iran, [27] varieties of this term (e.g., persia) were adopted through greek sources and used as an exonym for all of the persian empire for many years [28] thus, especially in the western world, the names persia and persian came to refer to all of iran and its subjects [28][9] some medieval and early modern islamic. Persis was the persian homeland, a land of river basins and plateaus that stretched forth from the zagros mountains
