Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 12 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe

The name by which Persia is known to the natives, is Iran, under which denomination the Mohammedan writers include the whole of the vast region south and west of the Oxus, while that of Touran is applied to the countries beyond the Oxus, the boundary, from time immemorial, of Persia and Scythiafi' On the Persepolitan monuments, this word occurs in the form of Eriene, which is evidently identical with the Ariane of the Greeks. Iran has been supposed to have denoted originally the north-eastern region of Persia, as dis tinguished from Irak and Persia or Fars. In its modern acceptation, at least, it comprehends, like the word Persia, the whole of the region lying between Arabia and India, Tatary, and the Indian Ocean.

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