Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The name of Iran derives immediately from 3rd-century Sassanian Middle Persian ērān, Pahlavi ʼyrʼn, where it initially meant "of the Iranians", but soon also acquired a geographical connotation in the sense of "(lands inhabited by) Iranians". In both geographic and demonymic senses, ērān is distinguished from its antonymic anērān, meaning "non-Iran(ian)".In the geographic sense, ērān was also distinguished from ērānšahr, the Sassanians' own name for their empire, and which also included territories that were not primarily inhabited by Iranians."@en }
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- Iran_(word) abstract "The name of Iran derives immediately from 3rd-century Sassanian Middle Persian ērān, Pahlavi ʼyrʼn, where it initially meant "of the Iranians", but soon also acquired a geographical connotation in the sense of "(lands inhabited by) Iranians". In both geographic and demonymic senses, ērān is distinguished from its antonymic anērān, meaning "non-Iran(ian)".In the geographic sense, ērān was also distinguished from ērānšahr, the Sassanians' own name for their empire, and which also included territories that were not primarily inhabited by Iranians.".