Who came up with the country names Iran and Iraq?

In Middle Persian sources, the name Arya (Noble) and Iran is used for the pre-Sassanid Iranian empires as well as the Sassanid empire. Iraq. read more

Name of Iran - Wikipedia. As for Iraq, the name has existed for a very long time now. Many have the theories that Iraq’s name comes from the Akkadian “Uruk” which came from the Sumerian “Urug” which was the name of the town there. Btw, the Sumerian word for “city” is Ur. read more

The name of Iraq, despite of uncertain origin, may came from the word “Uruk”, the Akkadian name for a Sumerian city. Uruk even contains the Sumerian word for city, which is “Ur”. Legend has it that “Uruk” meant “well watered” or “fertile” too. read more

The exonym Persia was the official name of Iran in the Western world before March 1935, but the Iranian people inside their country since the time of Zoroaster (probably circa 1000 BC), or even before, have called their country Arya, Iran, Iranshahr, Iranzamin (Land of Iran), Aryānām (the equivalent of Iran in the proto-Iranian language) or its equivalents. read more