Name confirmation?

[f9bob]

It is Persepolis or Persa real name for the city destroyed from Alexandar??

[yiannis]

Greeks called it Persepolis but the original name was Parsa.
Iranians today usually call the city both ways but in maps you see it as Persepolis.

[f9bob]

Now I did some search on the net and i find this to put little bit more on confusion...PERSOPOLIS-PARSA=>
http://tehran.stanford.edu/imagemap/perspolis.html PERSOPOLIS-PERSA=>
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/macedonia ... s_page.htm PERSOPOLIS-PERSA-ARCHEOLOGY=>
http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0878500626.html PERSOPOLIS-PERSA=>
http://i-cias.com/e.o/persepolis.htm PERSOPOLIS->P+írs+í=>
http://www.iranianlanguages.com/oldiran ... ptions.htm
Evan for Darius real name is Darayavaush.

[Cyrus]

Parse, but Iranians call it "Takht-e Jamshid".

[f9bob]

Name: Greek Persepolis (City of Persa). In Persian records from as early as 500 B.C. the city is referred to as Persa.
courses/macedonia/persepolis
University of Texas at Austin
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Persepolis - the Archaeology of Persa, Seat of the Persian Kings
Author: Donald Newton Wilber
ISBN: 0878500626
Publisher: Darwin Press, Incorporated - March 1989
Format: Hardcover
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Persepolis
Persian: takht-e jamsh+«d
Ancient capital of Persia, now located around 50 kilometers from Shiraz in Iran. Persepolis has its name from Greek, meaning 'City of Persians'.
The Persians called the city Persa at least as early as the time of the rule of Darius 1 around 500 BCE. Darius made Persepolis the new capital of his kingdom, replacing PasargadaeEnciclopaedia of the Orient
-¬ Copyright 1996-2004 LexicOrient. All rights reserved
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I have put three links for refference,and these are respectful authority on the subject.I wish to know ,-what is the reason for 3 different names for same thing and what is real original name for that thing what is strating with P.....
On the web sides there are allredy reference for takht-e jamsh+«d .Now if you think that real name is Parsa ,I want to know way?

[nick]

http://www.livius.org/pen-pg/persepolis ... s.htmlJona is really one of the world's best scholars on this subject. Best regards ---Nick

[Cyrus]

In Persian mythology, Jamshid (Yima) is a mythical king, for a long period, Iranians didn't know that modern Persepolis was the ancient capital of Achaemenid empire and they thought it is the same mythical Palace of Jamshid that has been mentioned in Avesta (sacred book of Zoroastrianism).About the word "Takht" (old Persian Takara), it is interesing that Darius the Great in his famous inscription in the Persepolis says:"Darayavaush Khshayathiya vazraka, Khshayathiya Khshayathiyanam, Khshayathiya dahyunam, Vishtaspahya pusa, Hakhamanishiya, hya imam takaram akunaush."Darius the Great king, King of Kings, King of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian, who built this palace.And the word Parsa just means "Persian", when Xerxes in his inscription in Persepolis says it is the city of Parsa, he means it is the city of Persians.

[f9bob]

About the word "Takht" (old Persian Takara), it is interesing that Darius the Great in his famous inscription in the Persepolis says:"Darayavaush Khshayathiya vazraka, Khshayathiya Khshayathiyanam, Khshayathiya dahyunam, Vishtaspahya pusa, Hakhamanishiya, hya imam takaram akunaush."
When I see these words and translation pie what you
have posted ,i can realy understend the big mess.
Who is that Darius?
If I have been that person ,on the end of my mind ,I will newer understend that you are talking about "me"!.
So it is realy close to the truth research on the
tradition of existing people than historians and usefullnes of accepted names in science.
Today DARA and PERSA are common names in the regions of historical influence,and that is more close than Darius and Parsa.
SO WHAT IS REALY PROPER NAME FOR PERSON WHAT SOME OF YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED WITH ALEXANDER?

[marcus]

Hi Bodan,I'm not sure quite what you're getting at here.Certainly the 'real' name of Darius was Darayauvaush - Darius is a latinization of the Greek Dareios, which was how the Greeks got their heads round the Persian name.Alexander is an Anglicisation of the Greek name Alexandros. Other forms of the name, such as Iskander, Eskander, and even the Scots Alistair, are local/linguistic variants, which come about because the form of the language necessitated a form of 'translation'.?All the bestMarcus