When did Persia become Iran? (Short Animated Documentary)

Answer: 1935.
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‘The Naming of Names’ by Geoffrey Lewis in The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Iranian Studies in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century by Mansour Bonakdarian
English in Post-Revolutionary Iran by Maryam Borjian

[@Whatamievingdoing]

Iran: say ir Uk: ir Iran: say an UK: an Iran: say Iran Uk: Persia

[@BIGMrighthere]

Lmao this was good

[@kukuy8174]

US: eye ran

[@sanskaarkulkarni1036]

Let's try again Iran: Say ir UK and USA:Ir Iran: Now say an UK and USA: I ran

[@nc3826]

​Let's try the right way Sanskaar Kulkarni: say Myanmar UK: U mean bloody Burma??? USA: we already use the correct names.... dip sh*t

[@sanskaarkulkarni1036]

@@nc3826 wut

[@agungwidi799]

"Prince of Iran" doesn't sound good for a game

[@DaDARKPass]

Prince of Iran sounds cool.

[@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy]

@@DaDARKPass Doesn't have alliteration, making it inferior by default!

[@DaDARKPass]

@@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy I'd rather have good historical accuracy over stupid ailliteration. Talking about historical accuracy, why is Prince of Iran set in a fucking sultunate? Sultunates are not the Iranian way.

[@nerdstark9002]

@@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy Just name him Ron, and call the game Ron of Iran.

[@byron-ih2ge]

Shah of Iran is fine.

[@high.visceral]

To be fair Persia is a really good name, my Grandma was Iranian and as a kid when I first learned that Iran used to be Persia I spent like a week telling my friends about my heritage

[@brandoncampanaro7571]

I think persia (the name)should be remembered and given the respect it deserves, it did last for over 2500 years as a name, and the common respect of calling Iran, Iran. As a historian i use this distinction, Iran is 1930 onwards, persia is upto 1930 (i use a rounded number so its easier for people to remember)

[@majesty4081]

Persia belongs to Parsi people , residing in India.

[@spacecoffee454]

@@majesty4081 persians are the major ethnicity in Iran, that's why it's usually called 'Persia'. The parsi community on the other hand are descendants from persian zoroastrians who immigrated to India after the muslim conquest of Iran. By the way, 'Parsi' is 'Persian' in farsi which is Iran's official language.

[@safs3098]

@@brandoncampanaro7571 wait what? Iran has always called itself Iran in it's entire history so why should consider anyone before 1930s as "Persia"? We never called ourselves that, "Persia" isn't our history, y'all westerners used that name due to misunderstanding. So the correct thing here is to say "out of respect, let's call Iran by its real name, now and forever"

[@DisturbedMU]

no its not, persia creates a space for enemy countries to divide us. look at england reaction they knew it ! . reza shah was a wise man RIP King.

[@cyrus723]

Iran has always been Iran. During the Sassanid dynasty, Iran was called Eranshahr. Eran or Iran is the name used for our country for at least 2000 years. Ferdowsi is a very famous poet which writes a a book called Shahnameh 1000 years ago. In this he refers to Iran as a country than Iranians would sacrifice their life for to protect. Greeks did not understand the concept of country or nation ad the lived in city states. As they knew Parsa one if the 4 capitals of Iran they called us Persians and the name stuck. But we always called our country Iran.

[@1258-Eckhart]

So Persia means "Parsan Empire" in the same way as "Roman Empire"?

[@konarkuppal673]

True, India the historical neighbourhood of Iran always called it Iran, the name is same in Sanskrit & Avesta

[@surroundgatari]

My friend, nobody, Iranian or Greek, understood the concept of a nation 2000 years ago, it was invented in the 1800s

[@notmyregret]

@@surroundgatari what

[@brandoncampanaro7571]

Hey some white kid will tell you that the Bible said its name is persia so its name is persia

[@soralb6368]

Interestingly, in Persian we often call the whole of the UK " Engelestan" which means England. So, the naming mixup is mutual.

[@michaelzheng5250]

Sor Alb just like also in Chinese, we call it 英国 (ying guo) which can be derived from 英格兰 (ying ge lan), which means England, and 国 (guo), which means country. However there are people starting to call it 联合王国 (lian he wang guo), which means United Kingdom, but since we use the “[first character of transliteration] guo” all the time, as for the case of France (fa guo), Germany (de guo), America, (mei guo), and in some rare instances Russia (e guo), using lian he wang guo just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[@prantikchakraborty8052]

Its englistan(land of the english) like hindustan(land of the hindus) etc.

[@michaelzheng5250]

Marc if Scotland ever goes free the name would be a lot less confusing because no matter you call it Englistan or Ying guo or whatever at least it would be quite literally the Land of the English

[@ErugoPurakushi]

@@michaelzheng5250 Wales and Northern Ireland would have to go too, but I get your point.

[@cmecoo3109]

@@ErugoPurakushi as would Cornwall technically

[@studiollama4428]

Some Iranian dude bouta get all up in my face about this, but Persia sounds way cooler than Iran

[@Tudsamfa]

"The Londoner Monarchy is welcomed to call us Persia anytime."- the same dude, probably

[@arturturkevych3816]

I agree. To me Persia sounds like an old powerful empire and until now I thought they swapped to Iran because of Islamic revolution

[@jackconnolly5339]

Half Iranian dude here. I’ve always thought Persia sounds cooler too.

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

And here’s that Iranian dude! 😜

[@arash1789]

@@cyrusthegreat1893 and here s another one

[@foggyforest2625]

England:we won't call you Iran Iran:fine so we won't also call you England

[@rossplendent]

"When did Persia become Iran?" It has literally always been Iran to the people who live there.

[@yasaminkheradmand1243]

Actually from a long time ago people call them self Iranian. We have historical documents of Kings introducing themselves as king of Iran from a long time ago. also a lot of which wasn't even persian themselves . We have Kings with different nationality such as ,partian , madian, lor, ..... So it wouldn't make any sense to call it persian. Also you can read old Iranian books like shahnameh of ferdosi as a proof of my words.

[@yasaminkheradmand1243]

@yabghus sorry I think you misunderstood me. When I said Iranian i use enghlish version and I meant people from Iran. Back in the days people call themself : ایرانیان>>>> /ɪˈrɑːn/+/i/+/yān/ /ɪˈrɑːn/ is a noun (iran) /i/ a suffix for association (irani = someone from iran) /yān/= a suffix used for pluralize /i/ and /yān/ together or /iyān/ means people from somewhere or something .for example (چینیان),(اروپاییان),(دانایان),(پارسیان) which basically has the same meaning as -ian in English The Interesting fact is ; this is one of many similarities between enghlish and farsi language. And the word (iran/ɪˈrɑːn) on it's own means ((where ariyan live)) . So there wasn't a mistake it's a self-explanatory word. Iranshare is the name of a city. For further proof I have a poem from shahnameh which was written in 10th century. به رستم چنین گفت که ای پهلوان کجایند ایرانیان این زمان He asked rostam, where are Iranians rightnow? چنین یافت پاسخ از ایرانیان که برتو مبادا که آید زیان Iranians answer that we hope you never get hurt. و دیگر از ایران زمین هرچه هست که آن شهر ها را تو داری به دست. بپردازی و خود به توران شوی زمانی ز جنگ و ز کین بغنوی ‌. You must live iran's citys that you overrun and return to Toran and give war a break If you want I can email you some images of written document before Islam in iran.

[@yasaminkheradmand1243]

@yabghus what do you call a number of citys that are united , follow the orders of a monarch (shah) and pay taxes to that monarch, have a unified army ???? I call it a country . If you know a better word please tell me . Also in the third poem I send a iranian prince literally asking the enemy king to give back IRANS city (which, in this story are Bokhara ,Samarghand ,Saghd Chach, Sijab)this citys were part of his fathers territory. It's just a story but have roots In realty. Seriously, I'm want to know what's the right enghlish word for that.

[@yasaminkheradmand1243]

@yabghus you clearly have no historical reading AND no educational knowledge.

[@minutemansam1214]

@yabghus No, they called themselves Iranians. Eranshahr is what the Sassanids called themselves. (their whole official name was Empire of the Iranians as translated into modern English). The people referred to their land as Iran, just like they do today. Because they were Iranians. "The Persian kings who threw people to the lions, they made human rights?" Cyrus the Great was one of the first emperors to outlaw slavery. Zoroastrianism is derived from the same root as all other Indo-European religions, but is a proper monotheistic religion as it only has one proper creator god. Note that the two great spirits of good and evil are NOT the creator deity.

[@LedosKell]

Persia: Call us Iran USA & Germany: Sure thing, my friend. UK: *angry tea noises*

[@moriskhemketi5051]

Iran and America are not friend

[@m.a4491]

@@moriskhemketi5051 they used to be, until Iran did not want to stay as a puppet anymore.

[@m.a4491]

@Aromko Komondor don't cry, truth sometimes hurts

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

LedosKell 😄

[@nimamdi5040]

Everything will be clear very soon...!!!😏😏😏🇮🇷🇨🇳🇷🇺 скоро поймете Что такое Иран И что будет твориться в мире!!!همچین سرتون بیاد که نفهمین از کجا خوردین.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I'm here imagining the Romans calling countries for their capital names now.

[@GermanWehrmacht]

I mean the Republic of Washington D.C and the Berlin Republic does have some interesting rings to them. Though not to sure about the Kingdom of Madrid and the and the 5th Parisians Republic...or would it be the 5th Republic of Paris hmm..

[@Tudsamfa]

I cannot wait for the republic of Edinburgh to be free from the Londinium Monarchy.

[@julibean5125]

​@@GermanWehrmacht *Republic of Luxembourg, Kingdom of Kuwait and the Brazillian Republic joined the game*

[@alexandrub8786]

@@GermanWehrmacht the republic of Washingtonia/Berlin/Parisian the kingdom of Madridia

[@alexandrub8786]

@@Tudsamfa Londonistan*

[@vahidmirkhani]

Fun fact: Though "Iran" and "Iraq" are similar in English, their counterparts in their actual alphabets vary tremendously: Iran = ایران Iraq = عراق Iran means the land of the noble (Arya meaning noble) and as mentioned in the clip, has been used for literally thousands of years. Iraq's name's origin has been appointed to either an extremely ancient city "Uruk" in the "cradle of civilization", Mesopotamia, which was inhabited in 5 to 6 thousands of years ago,.... .... OR it has been appointed to a Middle Persian word "Eh-raag" (pronounced as 'a rug'), meaning "low-lands" as Iran was mountainous and those lands were lower and between the rivers. Either way, now you know how different those two words are. (^_^) P.S. for those who claim that the alphabet we (Iranians) have right now are NOT ours and was forced, I have to admit that they are correct. But the Iraqis are using the alphabets that aren't theirs either. The fact is that we burrowed our alphabets from Sumerians (now, Iraq) to begin with!! Yes, I said it. Cuneiform, or خط-میخی wasn't originally Iranian either. So please calm down, breath, and google this stuff and learn more. There's an ancient Persian proverb that has been used for millions of years: check yo' sewoff, befo yoo rekk yo' sewoff. 😌

[@someone-wo5nu]

nope. Arya doesn't mean noble. its an ethnic term, the term Aryan goes back to the Avestan period when our Proto-Indo-European ancestors started migrating into Eranshahr {Land of Aryans/ named after themselves}. they described themselves as Aryan not just noble people. to be an Aryan is to be of Aryan blood. its the same as being Greek or African. you cant claim to be Aryan if you are not of the Blood.

[@vahidmirkhani]

@@someone-wo5nu I specifically asked everyone to check themselves and google stuff beforehand. Please google "Arya Etymology". The word Arya is not necessarily Old Persian anyways. You yourself said they migrated from somewhere, meaning that their language was already Proto-Indo-European, not Old Persian. Their language evolved afterwards.

[@someone-wo5nu]

@@vahidmirkhani @vahidmirkhani ofc their language wasn't old Persian it was Avestan. A sub branch that had came out of Proto-Indo-European. They migrated from north of the caucuses, Southeast-wards towards Modern day Iranian plateau. Also I agree with almost all you said I just wanted to correct the only mistake in your comment that might mislead some people. Ps; have a nice day/night👍👍

[@DieFlabbergast]

Almost EVERYBODY in the world is using an alphabet or other type of script invented by someone else. Very often, that "someone else" doesn't exist anymore :)

[@ChromeMan04]

@@someone-wo5nuAvestan is modern Pashto and has nothing to do with Persian

[@afdalridwan3813]

0:38 Oh Wait, that Failed art guy appeard in this episode again, he is so popular!

[@darksuperganon]

"Attached only to an empire" And rugs, don't forget the sweet rugs.

[@risannd]

And cats

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Excel Coananda What else you guys can come up with? 😉

[@Hilversumborn]

Cyrus The Great Prince of Persia game series.

[@Ali-bu6lo]

And cats and cuisine

[@discordadmin9796]

And my dad

[@x-ray-oh3134]

Thank you for not calling it ""iRan", as if it's an apple product

[@kaanrivis]

X-Ray-OH or the turkish jogurt drink AYRAN

[@Willxdiana]

germanic I is a e. English I is a I for me. sometimes its strange just strange, the English language.

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

or an A Flock of Seagulls song

[@Pawn2e4]

Brits say Iran, Americans use the Apple product pronunciation.

[@Dave_Sisson]

@@saoirsedeltufo7436 When I was a kid I thought that song was about the country... ♪ Iran, Iran so far away. ♪ The lyrics make sense in that context.

[@maxa.9135]

I kind of didn't expect this video to suddenly turn into a British just being British video😂😂😂

[@ScizzorSaurusX99]

Just found this channel fairly recently but I love the content, educational and to the point. Perfection

[@SweetOne968]

The Greeks mistook Airyana for Persia and the Persians mistook Greece for Ionia. Today in Iran, Greece is referred to as “yoonān”

[@auroraourania7161]

And the Romans called Hellas Graecia, for unclear reasons (based on some writings by Aristotle it might've been what people on the Western coast of Greece had once called themselves, and since that's the first part of Greece the Romans interacted with, that's what they ended up being called in Latin), which is why the country that has generally been called Hellas, or something derived from that, by its own people is known as Greece in so many places to its west.

[@Unampezzz]

And in my country is yunani

[@Ghaltouni]

Arabs also call Greece Yoonan and call its capital Athena

[@xiijinpingthesupremeleader1349]

Same in India, greece is called Yunaan here too.

[@Ali_109]

We also call it "yunan" in Urdu

[@asdfaljkshfalrsgha]

In Churchill's history of WWII, you can read a bunch of letters he wrote insisting to other government ministers and military commanders that they use "Persia" in correspondences, to avoid an Iran/Iraq mistake that might result in troops or supplies getting sent to the wrong country or something.

[@Xune2000]

To be fair your average Brit is pretty stupid, this is exactly the kind of mistake they would make. Can't hold it against Churchill for wanting to keep things as simple as possible at such a key point in history.

[@Vollification]

1:32 You know something is wrong when Hitler agrees that it's offensive to call a nation by the wrong name XD

[@keno1069]

I learned so much. Thanks for posting.

[@alexciveira9418]

"Wait, its called Iran?" "Always has been"

[@joerionis5902]

*_Gunshot_*

[@xerxes8191]

It has never been called Iran before 17h century

[@sinnerprophet7391]

@@xerxes8191 I'm sorry but you're actually wrong just check what some ancient kings of Iran like Darius I have written. Persia or Pars is just a region in Iran which Persians have come from, Not all Iranians are Persian, but all Persians are Iranian (Ariyan, ofc as the video says not the white blonde Ariyan had in mind tho)

[@xerxes8191]

@@sinnerprophet7391 Babylon stone inscription: In the month of Nisannu, Cyrus, king of Persia, called up his army and crossed the Tigris below the town of Arbela. In the month of Ajaru he marched against the country U[...], defeated its king, Cyrus was governor or king?

[@sinnerprophet7391]

@@xerxes8191 Obviously foreigners like Babylon and Greeks called Iran Persia, that's obvious, I'm talking about what Iranians themselves called each other.

[@kouroshmarx8646]

You're one of the few who understood that Reza Shah didn't rename the country but told the others they should call it another way. Thank you for that. ❤

[@xerxes8191]

The name of the country was changed by Nadirshah of Afshar

[@Pedram_Ng]

@@xerxes8191 😂😂😂پس نادرجان این اسمو گذاشت ها.ساسانیان هم پشم😅

[@xerxes8191]

@@miladd237 نه گرامی. ایران به معنی موبدان است. در بسیاری از منابع کهن مانند تاریخ سیستان و کتاب ابن خردادیه گفته شده که ایر یعنی موبد و ایران جمع آن است پس ایران یعنی موبدان زرتشتی، این چرندیات نژادپرستانه آریایی پسندانه هیچ ریشه و منبع تاریخی ندارد و در یک قرن اخیر ساخته شده. شما بجای خواندن پرت و پلا در اینترنت بروید منابع و متون کهن خودمان را بخوانید

[@xerxes8191]

@h @h هیچ کس نگفت که ایرانیان به قطب شما کوچ کردند. این تئوری کوچ آریایی مربوط به کشور ما نیست چون دانش ژنتیک آن را رد کرده اما در کتاب اوستای زرتشت به آن اشاره شده . دکتر فرشاد فرشیدراد در کتاب سرزمین های گمشده با استناد به اسناد کهن ثابت کرده که این کوچ از قطب شمال به شمال هندوستان بوده و هیچ ارتباطی با کشور ما ندارد. در باره نظامی گنجوی باید به کتب مورخین و جغرافی دانان عصر خودش رجوع کنیم مانند کتاب عالم آرای صفوی و جغرافی دان ارمنی آنانیا شیراکاتسی . این دو مولف ایران را تنها آران یا جمهوری آذربایجان توصیف کرده اند که پیش از آن آلبانیا نام داشت. شیراکاتسی در نقشه هایش ارمنستان و ایران را از استانهای پارس رسم کرده. نام ایران و ایرانی در همه متون کهن مترادف ترک و ترکمن می باشد و مورخین پس از صفوی مانند میرزا محمد خلیل هم ایرانیان را فرقه های ترک و افغان آسیای میانه وصف کرده. کوچ قبایل ترکمن از آسیای میانه به قفقاز هم موجب تغییر زبان مردم این منطقه شد و هم نام ایران را به آنجا بهمراه برد.

[@xerxes8191]

@h اینکه یک ملت تاریخ خودش را انکار میکند گریه دار است نه خنده دار. ما در تمام تاریخ این کار را کرده ایم و این آخرین بارمان نیست . مردم آذربایجان هم انکار میکنند که نام کشورشان آران یا ایران بوده در حالی که همه میدانند که این روسها بودند که نام آذربایجان را روی آران گذاشتند فردوسی همه جا از شهر ایران و کشور پارس سخن رانده نه کشور ایران و شهر پارس: منوشان و خوزان زرین کلاه که بر کشور پارس بودند شاه همه شهر ایران پر از ناله بود به چشم اندرون آب چون ژاله بود ز پنجاه بازوآوریدن سی ز ایرانی و رومی و پارسی از آن پس برآن رزمگه بس ماند سپه را سوی شهر ایران براند چو دارا ز ایران به کرمان رسید دو بهر از بزرگان لشکر ندید همه شهر هایی که فردوسی از آن نام برده در افغانستان است غرچگان، بُست، طالقان، بلخ، فارياب، مرو، کابل، قندهار، نيمروز، باميان، پنجهير، اندرآب، بدخشان این یعنی ایران یک ولایت در کشور پارس بوده

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!

[@kraut1982]

Whole wide region referred by a smaller part is a common theme. Ancient India for the neighbors in the west such as Persians or Greeks was identified by Sindhu/Indus river or Sindh region, now in Pakistan. For eastern asia India was sometimes called Kalinga which was just one kingdom of many on India’s eastern coast.

[@depthcharge123]

I like the Shah's attitude. "Call us whatever you like, I don't care".

[@makotoyuki2199]

TwistedPreacher Yeah most people back then didn’t care much. Though if you did call a Persian an Arab, let’s just say you fucked up big time.

[@iranispersia9250]

@@makotoyuki2199 never call a iranian (persian)an arab never, or they teach the whole history from 5000 yrs ago

[@goddamnarshia]

We liked shah's attitude too . May he forgive his people for what they did to him

[@007VitaminD]

You like him cuz he was a beta male who had no pride in his authentic identity.

[@goddamnarshia]

@@007VitaminD he is the sole reason Iran is as developed as it is evem though its ruled over by thugs thieves and traitors. He was a true patriot , but i wouldn't expect a neckbeard basement dweller who unironically calls a king a beta and supports mullahs to understand that. Don't meddle in things you're too immature to understand

[@Karifi]

Me as a Brazilian: so romans will call me brazilian them?

[@kevinclass2010]

Brazil: let's get ahead of the Romans by naming our new capital after the country.

[@3bydacreekside]

>Ahead of the Romans

[@JonatasAdoM]

So the Romanians wanted to be roman all along?

[@makky6239]

They will call us romans

[@MaxwellTornado]

They would call you Rionian by that logic, no?

[@bhka6423]

For those who think that Iranian and Persian also have the same meaning: no, they don’t. The people who lived in the empire never called it Persia because it wasn’t mostly Persian. You also had other peoples like the Medes, Parthians, Bactrians, Sogdians, Khwarezmians, etc. who were Iranic, but not Persian. Today the term Iranian is used for the nationality. That means that every citizen of Iran is Iranian. Then you have the term Iranic which is referred to ethnicities that speak Iranian languages, such as Kurds, Persians, Lurs, Talysh, Pashtuns, Pamiris, Tajiks, Gilaks and many others.

[@cl8804]

nt jewbani

[@Yazdegerdiranyar]

I'm an Azeri, I'm Iranian but not Persian, so I approve what you said! In fact among the different families of the Iranic (or Iranian) people, Persians were the most successful. So the world got to know our country with their name, I genuinely have no problem with that, as Persians are my brothers and we've always been one nation.

[@bhka6423]

@@Yazdegerdiranyar Persian dominance started in the Sassanid empire. Persians are only the "most successful" ones because they assimilated many other peoples.

[@Yazdegerdiranyar]

@@bhka6423 That's what the Islamic republic murderer regime has fed to you for 43 years. We've always been one nation and one family. Before Sassanids, Achaemenids were Persians, and were so successful that their name became synonymous to the name of Iran. Ideas of tolerance and rights of citizens (human rights as someone interpret) comes from the legacy of Cyrus the great. Iranians never exploited other people, let alone their own homies.

[@bhka6423]

@@Yazdegerdiranyar Dude, do you really think that provinces like Esfahan, Razavi Khorasan, Kerman, Alborz, Tehran, Yazd etc. were originally Persian-speaking? No, they weren’t. The Persians are originally from southern Iran (Bushehr, Fars, Hormozgan, etc.).

[@VladTaushanov]

Please, please do an episode on Bulgaria. Any topic would be interesting, but here are a couple of suggestions: - the relationship between Bulgaria and North Macedonia - the origins of the Bulgarian nation (good luck researching that one!)

[@conniedenowski5297]

Do an episode on Ukraine.

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

I've never clicked so quick. I'm literally in the middle of an argument about this subject right now

[@Earth-ct6um]

Anglozion 76 no he lost

[@Earth-ct6um]

Purple Turtle I can confirm nor deny that accusation.

[@asytippyy352]

I gotta admit I never had the balls to hazard a guess until finding out literally 76 seconds ago...

[@alexyandfriends]

Arthur Morgan DAMN IT DUTCH!

[@petergeramin7195]

He's dead. He lost as it was an argument to the death.

[@JackRackam]

I have to say, I'm really enjoying your shorter video format. You always manage to ask the most interesting questions!

[@robertevbayekha6639]

Ello

[@WeirdMagnus]

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[@fedoramaster6035]

Holy shit it’s jack rackam. You’re literally my favorite history KZbinr. You’re hilarious

[@CarneSagrado]

. short but sweet, and clear ! nice to find your channel, am now subscribed! 😮😮😮👍👍👍😁 .

[@ElrohirGuitar]

I had a roommate in college during the late sixties who was from Persia. He always referred to Persia instead of Iran.

[@diemonder]

persian here. it's a fairly controversial thing, and also the persian diaspora is also far more likely to prefer "persia" over "iran" including my own family as well. i personally like the name persia more however it is a bit dismissive of the many many other ethnicities that live in iran which aren't persian. my (and many other persians') biggest issue with the name iran is just how associated it is with the terrorist regime that currently controls the country.

[@pauladambarral5039]

Hitler: we are Aryan descendants Persia: uh no your not

[@prantikchakraborty8052]

@European Awakening Aryan is a sanskrit(ancient indian language) meaning a knowledgeable person.

[@michaelzheng5250]

Prantik Chakraborty Exactly the reason why Hitler wasn’t a true aryan *drops mic*

[@user-vq8iw7np4s]

@European Awakening bro name of our state mean land of arians

[@catboy8137]

@European Awakening well actually aryan was only used by the indo Iranians to separate themselves from other indo Europeans

[@Dingish]

Here we go again.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I love Iran’s dedication to their nuclear program

[@liora.5003]

OwO I lowove yowou kim jowong uwun

[@kumikoOG]

*I hope this was a joke*

[@aldhizak]

ha ha ha i get it man ha ha ha iran huz nuclear ha ha ha iran bad ha ha ha

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Catherine The Second We all hope so, too!

[@joma5721]

🤤🤤 I’d let Kim Jong Un’s nuclear arsenal obliterate me any day and leave me an irradiated wasteland

[@maybee...]

Thank you for clarifying that, I was a child in school in the 50's and 60's, I found it confusing when names of countries changed.

[@CarryPotter007]

I learned from this random channel with simplistic art and short videos more about my country than my country itself has ever taught me...

[@Violent2aShadow]

Scotland, Whales, and North Ireland breaks away from UK. British PM: "We're not the UK anymore. Just call us England now, please." Iran: "Ok, UK."

[@soralb6368]

Actually in Persian, we often call the whole of the UK "Engelestan" which means England.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@soralb6368 That's a common practice around the world. Some people don't even call them British, just English (the rest of the UK must love it)

[@appleslover]

@@JonatasAdoM i speak Arabic and Turkish and i can approve this It was the English whom the world has known..

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@appleslover Even their national world cup team is called England.

[@biliminsrlar5752]

In Turkey we call UK as İngiltere usually.Which means England lol

[@jesseberg3271]

The Achaemenids did the whole, list every place we've ever conquered, thing when introducing themselves. (i.e. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, etc, etc, etc) For the Achaemenids, this list started with their home territory, Fars/Pars. So they show up at Greece and start spewing out their list, trying to impress people, and the Greeks just chopped out the first bit, "Ruler of Pars? Gotcha. These are the Parsians."

[@saeedvazirian]

They didn't spew it. They fucking conquered that shithole. They won.

[@shriyanv4407]

I wouldn't call Ancient Greece a shithole....

[@xerxes8191]

The Achaemenids home territory was called Pârsâ = Perse or Pârsa =Persa Some stone inscriptions shows also Pârša= Persha

[@saeedvazirian]

@@shriyanv4407 I would.

[@jonathanccast]

@@saeedvazirian The Persians lost, dude. Pretty permanently once Alexander started expressing his opinion.

[@dceufan]

@History Matters .. I am so intrigued with your videos and I am also wondering what program y’all use to create those avatars. I need to make one for myself. 😊

[@kkinva68]

these videos are great

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Me: It's close to 2 am, time for bed History Matters: *Sike*

[@suselek990]

8 am

[@quintiax]

Well you won't die from 3 minutes less sleep

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Soloman S I’m a conservative

[@quintiax]

@Soloman S Lol, explain me the 5 principles of Communism. I want to know of you actually know what Communism is or if you just are one of these ass licking dudes who follow whatever politician X say rofl. Also don't use Wikipedia, or any other site (not like you won't). Not a Communist myself, just curious.

[@acebalistic1358]

Purple Turtle I get around that by waking up near 6 AM Sure it’s because of something called prison I mean school, but prison I mean school can wait

[@citywokbesitzer6834]

1:22 Small mistake. Germany left the League Of Nations in 1933 so Hitler shouldn't be there

[@derekchristenson5711]

"Hitler shouldn't be there" was a major theme in the 1930's and 40's.

[@namenamename390]

I really like that all it took was basically just asking politely.

[@nirvanachile24]

This is channel is so good.

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Well done, buddy! 👍🏻 Except for the fact that you forgot Reza Shah ( Pahlavi I ) had a mustachio. 😉

[@arianrezaie4729]

Name used by ... he showed the iranian peoples map wrong

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

arian rezaie What was wrong with the Iranian map though?

[@arianrezaie4729]

Google iranian peoples map

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

arian rezaie You probably mean the Greater Iran.

[@arianrezaie4729]

Its called iranshahr

[@dualmo7185]

0:53 wow, I never realized how tiny china is

[@baronvonbeandip]

That's not china, that's a red ink stain on a maroon napkin.

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@mehrzadegol]

Thanks to comments the subject is less of a mystery! Keep it up guys❤

[@goghnos8826]

Finally someone explained this correctly thumbs up from an Iranian 👍

[@rahulverma8774]

No, you are persian

[@javadbahram795]

@@rahulverma8774 And you want to twist history and change it to your liking for your own personal gains I assume...

[@rahulverma8774]

@@javadbahram795 yes I wish to twist history I am here to spread fake narrative And i like it I am good at it

[@javadbahram795]

@@rahulverma8774 Great, we really need to watch out for individuals such as yourself... so dangerous...

[@vinnyjhawer7847]

Love your videos, and the fact you conpress so much info in such little time is a truly cleaver idea given people's attention spans nowadays, mine included.

[@codeviper8665]

Once again, here's History Matters answering questions of mine that drive me nuts, but not in such a concentrated sense that I'd ever look it up

[@revpm69]

Thank you. But speed of delivery sounded like terms and conditions at the end of a radio ad.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Thanks for uploading the video in the middle of my night. The video couldn't have been uploaded in a better time, I was just browsing youtube.

[@pavel4014]

You ve been putting up these so often now. Respect! Great content.

[@slaire7799]

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[@Erotemic]

Learned something new! Another great example of how biases can creep up in unexpected ways, and a good reminder to be vigilant about it.

[@sir_albaxious1909]

Idk why but when the English mistaken foreign words, these words will turn out to be very cool in English. Kozhikode - Calicut Thiruvananthapuram - Trivandrum Pars - Persia Shikaakwa - Chicago Kalikshetra - Calcutta Ouragon - Oregon Angles - England Magra - Madrid Aviccena - Ibn Sina These are the few ones I know...

[@bobmcbob49]

"by others I mean" me: it's britain isn't it "the united kingdom"

[@vahidmirkhani]

But Britain and UK aren't exactly the same thing tho. England, Britain and UK have 3 different definitions, right?

[@taiwan8741]

@@vahidmirkhani England is the most populous country in the UK (by country, I'm referring to a province, they call their 4 constituent countries as "countries" for sone reason). Britain refers to the UK except for Northern Ireland, and the UK refers to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[@matthewshipley739]

@@taiwan8741 'Britain' or 'UK' is just used for expediency most of the time. In the same way that you'd call the United States of America 'USA' or 'America' for expediency.

[@taiwan8741]

@@matthewshipley739 I agree with you, I was just explaning the difference to him. Sorry for the confusion. :)

[@MichaelWerneburg]

He added just a hint of a pause before naming it, as if steeling himself for the unhappy "of course" moment. I mean, it's incredible how all this countries seems to be muddling through "and then the English/British came".

[@wannabedal-adx458]

"And you know not those other guys!!!!" (Hitler enters the scene) LoL

[@arminabdi]

Fars (Persia) is one of the provinces of modern Iran and it’s located in the south where the Persians lived. The Medians and Parthians were in north western and north eastern areas of Iran and the country that includes all of these three groups of Aryans is the land of Aryans aka Iran.

[@1258-Eckhart]

So why do they all speak Farsi (even the Tadjiks)? Isn't that a reason to call them all "Persians"?

[@ShahanshahShahin]

Fars was Pars prior to the Islamic conquest

[@bhka6423]

@@1258-Eckhart Because Persian was spread around the country. The only part that was originally Persian speaking was the Fars province, that is located in the southwestern part of the country. The rest was Persianized, also the Tajiks who originally spoke an eastern Iranian language.

[@justahobbiest]

@HistoryMatters you should really do this exact same story for the people of Hellas (that is to say: Greece) because Fun Fact: the name Greece was actually given to them during their 400 year subjugation under the Ottoman Empire and the British in true form asked the ruling party what the land was called and not the locals.

[@alonsoACR]

The name Greece was taken from French. The French took it from, well, Old French and from there Latin. Graeca. It was used since before the Turks got to Anatolia. Emperor of the Greeks was used a lot to refer to the Eastern Roman Emperor.

[@kaiserwhillem7134]

I really like how nobody pays attention to my Empire anymore

[@umari.6735]

Truly a sad state of affairs.

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

Cool, gents; have fun creating your empires while being secret.

[@heriirzans.h6659]

I Do Kaiser Willhelm

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

i mean you did take an L in the first world war

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

My salute to you!

[@Symon_Kupala]

It would be cool if the author covered the work of the League of Nations, as it didn't prevent the seizure of Vilnius by Poland, part of China by Japan in 1931, Ethiopia by Italy, etc. I think this topic will be interesting to the audience.

[@guardiadecivil6777]

it didn't work because france was mostly incharge

[@Symon_Kupala]

@@guardiadecivil6777 , wrong. In fact, Britain and the States were mostly in charge, I guess. France was actually a rather weak state in the first half of the 20th century, and generally had to act according to British demands.

[@Symon_Kupala]

@@guardiadecivil6777, as I know, the main work to block the League of Nations to deter aggressors was done by Britain, not by France.

[@rzul]

Vilnius was mostly Polish populated, with long Polish history, it was where Piłsudski came from and it was to be either taken by Poland or Bolshevik Russia anyway

[@Symon_Kupala]

@@rzul, Vilnuis was a capital of Grand Princedom of Litva, and it has never been Polish city. Aggression of Poland against Lithuania in 1918-1921 was an International crime, as well as Polish aggression against Belarus and Ukraine in 1919-1921, I guess.

[@iamnotjavi2238]

thank you for answering my 3 am question with a swiftness

[@W4rfire]

How many videos do you got? I'm afraid I will have to watch them all, so far I didnt find one in which i didnt learn something new. I cannot afford to not know these things, but damn, do I really wanna hang in front of my computer all day to watch animated history videos?

[@Simon-tc1mc]

Yeah, I've always thought it's so weird we don't call Germany, Deutschland

[@skazka3789]

Petition to call "China" the proper name of ZhongGuo as well

[@AICW]

@@skazka3789 You can just call China "The Central State" then because that's what Zhongguo literally means.

[@AlexanderDiviFilius]

“Germany” as a name has roots extending back over 2000 years as a descriptor for the broad region. Because the concept of a unified Germany is relatively recent, and that we already call people from the Netherlands the Dutch, things are unlikely to change any time soon.

[@aaronnrodgers]

Germany is the official name in English. Iran's name is Iran in all languages. Germany is one of the many correct names for Deutschland, Iran is the only correct name for Iran. hope I made sense

[@ohwow2074]

In Iran they call Germany as Alman.

[@grizlygurl]

Thank you for creating this video so that we can learn about the history of Iran + Persia!

[@zkishani2149]

A country have saction and getting fucced up by America and people starving and its the hardest difficulty country in the world for living (true)

[@chocho8036]

i love your work, and i adore the hilarious but relevant sarcasm. but i do actually watch these videos to absorb info and i request that you speak a tad slower , just a tad

[@aminthemar]

Wanna know why the UK insisted on calling it "Persia"? In 1907, the first map of Iran's departition was drawn by Britain and Tsarist Russia, which was called the "Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907" aka the St. Petersburg agreement. According to this map, Iran was schemed to be divided into 3 parts, i.e. 2 zones of influence and a middle neutral zone (Persia). South for British influence and North for Tsarist Russian influence. It was based on this plan that Iran was occupied in the first World War. The old divide & conquer as usual.

[@randomuserthatuwontseeagain]

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[@javadbahram795]

I am copy-pasting this reply of mine to another post, can complete your post. The problem is then the other original Iranian people, such as the Kurds, Lurs, Mazandaranis, Gilakis, Baloch, Pashtuns... etc... won't regard themselves as Iranian when they start to think that Persia is the real name for Iran and therefore only the Persians are Iranian... this whould lead them to want separatism and it already has thanks to European powers!

[@Zanator1]

Over these last 1-2 years you've really honed your style to a point. The visual style is nice and it expresses the humor perfectly, the voice is very nicely modulated. Honestly I could watch these videos forever.

[@kauske]

As someone with an extensive Iranian family, 'Persian' is most definitely still used as an adjective over 'Iranian'. I've never seen any of my family care which of the two is used, so long as they weren't called 'Iraque' by mistake. That would _definitely_ rile them up.

[@sydhenderson6753]

I've always heard the language called Farsi or Persian.

[@kauske]

@@sydhenderson6753 Farsi would be the correct term for the language, as it is spoken by more than just the Persian ethno-group.

[@aisdtastdatsbd]

@@kauske Then what do you call English since it's not only spoken by the English ethno-group?

[@kauske]

@@aisdtastdatsbd Here's the thing, english is the common term for the language, in english. You would say 'I am speaking English.' You would not say the equivalent of "I am speaking Persian" in Farsi. Also, you could call English Anglo, and in 'Anglophone.' But that's not the common name for the language within the language itself.

[@javadbahram795]

@@kauske Perfect answer, Farsi is what the Persian speakers call it, so call it based on what the original users are calling it...

[@salim69]

Egypt: I will now called myself Egypt. Greece: I will now called myself Greece Asyria: I will now called myself Syria Macedonia and Mongolia: I will now called myself Macedonia and Mongolia Persia: Hello I'm Iran ... 😕

[@PaulTheFranklin]

Thanks Ike.

[@dargon1084]

Love how you depicted a guy from the 1970s with those huge glasses

[@1Vapersianprincess]

My grandparents would always call themselves Persian not Iranian and would get mad if anyone did lol I love the rich history of that side of my family. I can honestly say I'm first generation born in the US on my father's side

[@sobhanshaneii221]

Persian is not a nationality, Iranian is.

[@nehukybis]

Here in the US, during the Iran hostage crisis, some Iranian exchange students told people they were from Persia.

[@bhka6423]

Lmao they have no idea

[@theshlauf]

Smart kids.

[@javadbahram795]

Obviously to escape persecution...

[@adibzinnurine7917]

Iran had been the name of the present day border of the country ever since the beginning of the Sassanid Empire. Persia, on the other hand, includes Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan in the east and Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Levant in the west.

[@javadbahram795]

And those were all part of Iranshahr or Eranshahr during the Sassanid Empire...

[@Jicko1560]

As a kid it confused me immensely and always thought Iran and Persia were 2 different countries

[@xerxes8191]

Actually Iran and Persia were 2 different countries. Iran was name of Azerbaijan and Turkey until 17th century . The Armenian geography of Ananias of Sirak: The twenty-ninth country is Persia. Persia is divided into four parts The thirty-second country of Asia is Persia 20 which is east of Khuzistan bordering Media This name ‘Iran, however, may well be connected with that of * Aran, the putative native name for Caucasian Albania

[@richardque1036]

I remember as a young boy watching richard burton 's alexander the great in our tv,I am wonder what happen to this country call persia,it just vanish away!

[@pooya4434]

@@xerxes8191 that's completely incorrect! Iran's name was even mentioned in Avesta.

[@xerxes8191]

@@pooya4434 that's completely incorrect! Iran is not mentioned in Avesta. In Avesta there is only seven country . xwaēniraøa / arəzahī / sawahī / wouru jarštī/wourubarštī / fradadafšu / widadafšu You have never read Avesta

[@weirdsearchhistory5876]

It's like that kid in school everybody called Sonny, now as an adult he wants everybody to start calling him James or something like that and everybody is like "nah, you're still Sonny."

[@rose-oo7hc]

Iran has always been referred to as Iran by Iranians, only non-Iranians called it Persia so think of it more like if everyone you're friends or family with calls you James and people you don't know just keep calling you by your middle name, despite your name being James. Hahaha weird explanation but I hope this helped abit

[@sobhan9193]

Good job, as an Iranian I'm happy to see more videos about this misunderstanding. Worth to mention is that Iran has always been called Iran/Iranshahr/Ēran by it's own people and the neighboring countries, in other words the majority of this worlds population. It was only the west that had got it wrong.

[@Juddppnf]

Your ‘worthy’ point is literally the whole topic of the video. And the population of Iran & all its neighbours combined is under 500 million; be careful, your anti-west bias is showing

[@konarkuppal673]

@@Juddppnf FYI, India (or Hindustan in Persian) is the historical neighbourhood of Iran. And we call it Iran in Sanskrit, the land of Aryans. India’s population is 1300 million. Add 500 million for the entire subcontinent.

[@Juddppnf]

@@konarkuppal673 fair enough, those’re important points and I’m thankful to you for imparting your knowledge on me. To the original point, all that’s still less than half

[@aisdtastdatsbd]

I'm willing to bet that the names of most countries in your language are the not the same as those used by the countries themselves. Why should this be any different?

[@javadbahram795]

@@aisdtastdatsbd And it should be changed to the correct form, especially, if it has been asked already by that country...

[@Jack209]

0:11 Netherlands: Yeah they made that mistake here too

[@cht5086]

Another thing maybe intersting for you It is not Farsi , it is Parsi actually Reason : In Arabic language they dont have some alphabets as of: P,Ch,Zh,G Therefore they replace it with closest alphabet.for example they call China: Sina So they dont have P(Parsi) ,Arabs replace it with F(Farsi) to call Iranian(Persian) language Farsi! Gradually used by people But again the correct one is Parsi,Persian

[@wurttmapper2200]

Okay boomer

[@theArab__]

Ch T actually it came from the Greeks calling them Persians. Also we call China “Sin”

[@mahoortebyani3623]

Wurtt Mapper u got the whole squad laughing

[@religiousmilk8612]

@@theArab__ No, persia was always called Parsa by the iranians

[@hetakusoda2977]

it's Farsi or Persian, "Parsi" isn't a valid name in English

[@owainlewis2287]

Am living in tbilisi at the moment, most Iranians introduce themselves as Persians as it’s cooler and has less baggage.

[@samsharghy5042]

A person can be iranian but not persian (like the kurds, turks, arabs etc.) Can be persian but not iranian And can be both

[@Jade0603]

It’s kind of weird to me. My ancestors have been sleeping with so many people that I can’t even identify with an ethnicity.

[@Jade0603]

@@someone-wo5nu Probably Norwegian, German-Polish, Native American, and French.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

This is the first of these videos I have seen with no "thud".

[@mattslupek7988]

The animation is hilarious!

[@angusyang5917]

How timely. I just had a geography final yesterday, and I had to label many countries in the world. One of the countries was Iran, but my blind eyes couldn't find Iran anywhere in a word bank, so I put Iraq in the hope that it was a typo. When I looked more closely, AFTER I turned it in, Iran was the first word on that word bank, and I had just skipped over it. Oops.

[@jasongalvan8200]

Timely nothing, your phone just knows what you need lol

[@NotKnafo]

Why all of your videos are perfect?

[@baronvonbeandip]

If you think this is perfect, wait until you look in a mirror.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Thank you

[@ZombieMurdoc]

It's so weird how often we don't refer to countries by their actual names

[@ticklemypickle2020]

straight to the point unlike half other youtubers rambling on about random stuff we didnt even click on the video for.

[@ThePrinceOfXing]

Nice, this is a topic I've wanted to see be done for a long time

[@Azeez89]

man the humor is unreal haha

[@mercn]

nice video

[@claram5482]

I feel curious as to when exactly Spain started being known as Spain. I know officially it happened around the time Phillip II became king but surely the name was around before that? There were also other names, like Sepharad and Al Andalus which were also used to refer to the same territory, which wasn't even a unified political entity so I what did those names refer to?

[@samraatbharat6325]

Spain gets its name from the Roman province of Hispania

[@dophan6938]

The important question is: What happened to David Archaeologist?

[@yarpen26]

He probably used to contribute way more money than he could actually afford and it finally bit him in the ass so he had to pull out.

[@mazzyfart420]

He was on an archeological dig and fell down a hole like Daniel Plainview, triggering him to become a ruthless oil baron who has no time to watch KZbin videos anymore

[@genjibeeps998]

Cold war fact During WW2 Pers-I mean Iran was occupied by both the British empire and the soviet union and with an agreement to pull out after the war the British pull out and Stalin was like “you know what i might stick around” but the UN forced the soviets to pull out iran

[@genjibeeps998]

@Average Pahlavi Enjoyer yare yare

[@briansransom]

I had a student about 10 years ago, who said he was Persian. When I questioned that, he said that it’s Iran now, but since Iran has such a bad reputation in the USA, his family liked to call it Persia.

[@cattysplat]

Considering how popular the phase "Death to America" is by Iranian politicians, this shouldn't be surprising.

[@punkmaster4718]

I was very confused by this, I met an Iranian woman years ago with an accent and asked where she was from and she said she was Persian

[@SapuTaro-nr5bl]

​@@cattysplat I like those slogan

[@ArkadiBolschek]

1:46 No joking. To a Briton, "We've Always Done It Like This" is always the argument that trumps all others.

[@theshlauf]

Tradition is a solution to a problem nobody remembers

[@redacted5052]

When the language is named after you, you get a fair amount of leeway in how you decide to use it.

[@kckdude913]

Then don't complain when other countries like Spain start referring to England as Bitchland but in Spanish

[@justnoob8141]

50 Pct Amused bitchland?

[@saeedvazirian]

not really.

[@robertmitchum325]

thanks for this useful information.i come from iran and live in germany.

[@palinanavitskaya6133]

@0:48 USSR comes from an English translation of CCCP, so I don't think the naming thing applies in this case.