What is "fars"

Fars, FARs or FARS may refer to:

The province of Fars, the historic cradle of Persian civilisation, was a metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the sixth and twelfth centuries. It was centered in what is now Fars Province, and besides a number of centres in Fars itself, the East Syrian ecclesiastical province also included a number of dioceses in Arabia and a diocese for the island of Soqotra.

Fars or Al-Montabaaho-fil-Fars (Persian:المنطبعه فی القارس) is an Iranian newspaper in Fars region. The concessionaire of this magazine was Mirza Taghikhan Kashani and it was published in Shiraz since 1872. This was the first modern newspaper which was published in southern Iran.