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Fars is one of the 28 provinces of Iran. It
is in the south of the country. Its center is Shiraz.
Roughly, Fars is the original homeland of the Persian people. The native name of
the Persian language is Farsi or Parsi. Persia and
Persian both derive from the Hellenized form of the root word
Pars. Fars is arabicized version of Pars. The Old Persian word was Pārsā.
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