Sasanian Empire or Iran

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A big empire in the Middle East extended over the vast areas which today comprise Iran, Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, the southern portion of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, parts of Georgia, parts of Armenia, Kuwait, and Iraq from 224 CE to 652 CE.

Mid-17th century, historians had started calling this state the Sasanian Empire.  Its citizens never knew this name.  They used to call their country Eranshahr or simply Eran.¹

Further Reading

https://historyofislam.org/pre-islamic-arab-politics

Endnotes

1. Sebeos, Sebeos’ History ed. and trans. Robert Bedrosian (New York: Sources of the Armenian Tradition, 1985), 3.; Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad bin Dāwūd al-Dīnawri, al-Akhbār al-Ṭiwāl, ed. Vladimir Guirgass, (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1888), 29, 30.