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Greater Iran
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Iranian Intermezzo
The term Aryan Intermezzo or Iranian Intermezzo, coined designation, was introduced by Vladimir Minorsky, but it was highly popularized even before him by Max Müller and William Jones (philologist) and Richard Wagner "The Iranian Intermezzo" or "Aryan Intermezzo" first of all includes the renaissance of the Indo-Iranian / Indo-European peoples and their beginning of power in all forms, such as the ItaliandtRenaissance and Persian Renaissance or the German Renaissance and the Spanish Renaissance, generalized
Iran (word)
The modern Persian name of Iran (ایران) derives immediately from the 3rd-century Sasanian Middle Persian (Pahlavi spelling: 𐭠𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭, 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 Sasanians' own name for their empire, and which also included territories that were not primarily inhabited by ethnic Iranians.