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Greater Iran
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Denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia, all of which have been affected, to some degree, by the Iranian peoples and the Iranian languages
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cultural region
- Part of
- history of Iran
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Continent
- Eurasia
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- Commons category
- Greater Iran
- different from
- Pan-Iranism
- facet of
- Persianate society
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