Persia, Iran (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"A Persian Bád-gír, or Wind-Catcher. From a drawing in the Atlas to Hommaire de Hell’s Persia."

"John Evelyn mentions among the curiosities kept in the Treasury at St. Denis: “A faire unicorne’s horn, sent by a K. of Persia, about 7 foote long.”"

"Arghun Khan of Persia (see Prologue, ch. xvii.), who was much given to alchemy and secret science..."

"Hiuen Tsang’s version … places the Woman’s Island to the south of Persia."

"Khans of Kipchak, Chagatai, and Persia in small capitals."

"Fire-worship, or rockets, in Persia, i. 78, 80; by the Sensin in Cathay, 303, 325n"

"Book I.  Account of Regions visited … Cala Ataperistan—Persia—Fat-tailed sheep—The Caraunas Robbers"

"K’ang-hi’s seventeenth-century dictionary is more explicit: it states that Termed produces this ore, but that ‘the true sort comes from Persia, and looks like gold, but on being heated it turns carnation, and not black.’"

"the mulberry tree is eagerly cultivated in Persia in connection with the silk industry"

"…and reports on systems in Persia, India, China, everywhere."