The land of Parsa, Ancient Anshan was the birth place and heartland of Persian Empire. It was one the most important of Achaemenid Empire Satrapy where two of the Persian capitals, Pasargadae and Persepolis located. The name of Parsa also has always been cited at the top of the Persian Empire satrapies everywhere the name of those Satrapies listed in Achaemenid inscriptions indicating to the special political position of Parsa in this period. However, the geographical location of Parsa in south western Iran generally is known, but no much study has been done on the limits and boundaries of Parsa during the Achaemenid period which was varied at different times because of political events. Its boundaries seem was much larger than what was later known as Fars in Islamic period. In the Achaemenid period it was included some of the adjacent area which has not been studied properly yet. In this paper it has been tried based on Old Persian inscriptions, Elamite Texts from Persepolis, Greek Classical sources and Moslem Geographers accounts to designate boundaries and limitation of Parsa during the Achaemenid.

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