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• "Bailey_Arya" - As in Zoroaster's lifetime, differing dates for Avestan have been proposed; scholarly consensus floats around 1000 BCE (roughly contemporary to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit). Ariya- and Airiia- are also attested as an ethnic designator in Achaemenid inscriptions. The term Ērān from Middle Persian Ērān , Pahlavi ʼyrʼn , is found at the inscription that accompanies the investiture relief of Ardashir I at Naqsh-e Rustam.
• "Gignoux_Aneran" - In Kartir's inscriptions the high priest includes the same regions in his list of provinces of the antonymic Anērān . Both ērān and aryān comes from the Proto-Iranian term Aryānām , (Land) of the (Iranian) Aryas. The word and concept of Airyanem Vaejah is present in the name of the country Iran (Lit. Land of the Aryans) where Iran ( Ērān ), is modern-Persian of the word Aryānā .

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the official name of the country is "Islamic Republic of Iran." For the pre-1935 use of "Persia" as the western name for Iran, see Iran naming dispute.