Ariana (name) Ariana (name) Ariana is a feminine Persian name, popular in many languages. Arianna and Ariane are the two most common variations. The name "Ariana" has the several possible following origins. Ariana, the Latinized form of (Greek: ἡ 'Αρειανή/Arianē), was also a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of antiquity for an extensive territory in Central Asia, east of Persia and west of India, broadly covering modern Pakistan and Afghanistan. The name of Iran (Persia) originates from the Sanskrit word Aryānā (Ariana) meaning "The Land of the Aryans". The name "Arianna" is also the Latinized form of
The Raksha Country and the Sea Market there exist at least three stories from the Tang dynasty that revolve around a romance between a Chinese scholar and a dragon princess, and more plays adapted from these stories, like "Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess of Dongting" (）and "A Tower of Mirage" (). Pu's contemporary, Tang Menglai (), suggests that "The Raksha Country" allows for the "satiric demystification of the strange", musing in the second-to-earliest preface of "Liaozhai" that "strangeness" is both relative as well as most pertinent to human ethics: In his 1877 translation of "The Lo-Ch'a Country and the Sea Market", Giles states his preference for