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The name "Parthia" is a continuation from [[Latin language|Latin]] ''{{lang|la|Parthia}}'', from [[Old Persian]] ''{{lang|xpr-Latn|Parthava}}'', which was the [[Parthian language]] self-designator signifying "of the [[Parthians]]" who were an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] people. In context to its [[Hellenistic period]], ''Parthia'' also appears as ''Parthyaea''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

{{Main article|Pahla}}▼

Parthia was known as ''Pahlaw'' in the Middle Persian sources of the Sasanian period, and ''Pahla'' or ''Fahla'' by later Islamic authors.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Ghodrat-Dizaji|first=Mehrdad|title=Remarks on the Location of the Province of Parthia in the Sasanian Period|date=2016-08-30|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dkb6.8|work=The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires|pages=42–46|publisher=Oxbow Books|doi=10.2307/j.ctvh1dkb6.8|isbn=978-1-78570-210-5|access-date=2021-02-15}}</ref>

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==Geography==