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Article: Iran: an old civilization and a new nation state.
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- Focus on Geography
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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This is the first part of a two-part article. Part I, "The Iranian Tradition of Statehood," discusses the ramifications for present-day Iran of political relations in association with the political organization of space in the ancient world.
Part II, "Iran's Geopolitical Regions in the 21st Century," will be published in a future issue of FOCUS on Geography.
Part I. The Iranian Tradition of Statehood
Introduction: An Ancient State and Its Many Neighbors
Iran has functioned for at least 5000 years as a civilization and as fertile ground for the emergence of the world's first state in the modern sense of the word. The administration of ...