Wrongly praise ancient empire (6)
I believe the answer is:
persia
'ancient empire' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'wrongly praise' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'praise' anagrammed gives 'PERSIA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for persia that I've seen before include "Old Iran" , "Praise be to ancient Iran" , "Former name of Iran" , "Old land" , "Iran, formerly" .)