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The name of the city of Ahvaz also has the same origin as the name Khuzestan, being an Arabic broken plural from the compound name, “Suq al-Ahvaz” (Market of the Huzis)–the medieval name of the town, that replaced the Sasanian Persian name of the pre-Islamic times.

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