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en-wikipedia-org-5558		Culture of Iran - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9460	1071	63	The Persian language has been often dubbed as the most worthy language of the world to serve as a conduit for poetry.[19] Azerbaijani literature has also had a profound effect on Iran's literature with it being developed highly after Iran's first reunification in 800 years under the Safavid Empire, whose rulers themselves wrote poetry.[20] There remain a few literary works of the extinct Iranian language of Old Azeri that was used in Azerbaijan prior to the linguistic Turkification of the people of the region.[21] Kurdish literature has also had a profound impact on the literature of Iran with it incorporating the various Kurdish dialects that are spoken throughout the Middle East. The South Caucasus and Central Asia "occupy an important place in the historical geography of Persian civilization." Much of the region was included in the Pre-Islamic Persian empires, and many of its ancient peoples either belonged to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European peoples (e.g. Medes and Soghdians), or were in close cultural contact with them (e.g. the Armenians).[63] In the words of Iranologist Richard Nelson Frye:	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5558.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5558.txt