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Parsi (other)
The Parsis are a Zoroastrian community of South Asia. Parsi or Parsis may also refer to: Places * Parsi, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Parsi, Bihar, a village in India * Pärsi, village in Viljandi County in southern Estonia Other uses * Parsi (Tati), Iranian ethnic group from the Caucasus ( Tat people) *Parsi language, the name of several languages *Proposed unit of currency to replace the Iranian rial *Socialist Party of Indonesia (Parsi) People with the name * Albert Parsis (1890-1980), French footballer *Arsham Parsi (b. 1981), Iranian LGBT Human Rights activist *Héctor Campos Parsi, Puerto Rican composer *Trita Parsi, Iranian policy analyst See also * Farsi (other) * Persian (other) * Persia (other) * Iranian (other) Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parsis
Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim conquests) in order to preserve their Zoroastrian identity. The Parsi people comprise the older of the Indian subcontinent's two Zoroastrian communities vis-à-vis the Iranis, whose ancestors migrated to British-ruled India from Qajar-era Iran. According to a 16th-century Parsi epic, ''Qissa-i Sanjan'', Zoroastrian Persians continued to migrate to the Indian subcontinent from Greater Iran in between the 8th and 10th centuries, and ultimately settled in present-day Gujarat after being granted refuge by a local Hindu king. Prior to the 7th-century fall of the Sassanid Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate, the Iranian mainland (historically known as 'Persia') had a Zoroastrian majority, and Zoroastrianism had served as the Iranian state reli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parsi, Iran
Parsi ( fa, پارسي, also Romanized as Pārsī) is a village in Valupey Rural District, in the Central District of Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 82, in 25 families. References Populated places in Savadkuh County {{Savadkuh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parsi, Bihar
Parsi is a village in West Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. Demographics As of 2011 India census The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ..., Parsi had a population of 1954 in 324 households. Males constitute 53.9% of the population and females 46%. Parsi has an average literacy rate of 39.8%, lower than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 71.1%, and female literacy is 28.8%. In Parsi, 22.5% of the population is under 6 years of age. References {{Bihar-geo-stub Villages in West Champaran district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pärsi
Pärsi is a village in Mulgi Parish, Viljandi County in southern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It borders the villages Morna, Oti, Karksi, Polli and Allaste as well as other villages in the former Halliste Parish Halliste Parish ( et, Halliste vald) was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Viljandi County. In 2009, it had a population of 1,808 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 267.09 km². After the municipal elections held on 15 October 2017, Ha .... References Villages in Viljandi County {{viljandi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tat People (Caucasus)
The Tat people (also: ''Tat'', ''Parsi'', ''Daghli'', ''Lohijon'') are an Iranian people presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly Southern Dagestan). The Tats are part of the indigenous peoples of Iranian origin in the Caucasus. Tats use the Tat language, a southwestern Iranian language somewhat different from Standard Persian, as well as Azerbaijani and Russian. Tats are mainly Shia Muslims with a significant Sunni Muslim minority. The 1886–1892 Tsarist population figures counted 124,683 Tats in the Russian Caucasus of which 118,165 were located in the Baku Governorate and 3,609 in the Dagestan Oblast.Tsutsiev, Arthur. "Appendix 3: Ethnic Composition of the Caucasus: Historical Population Statistics". Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 180. The 1897 Russian Empire census recorded 95,056 Tats, of which 89,519 were in the Baku Governorate and 2,998 in the Dagestan Oblast. The 1926 Soviet census only c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parsi Language
''Parsi'' has been used as a name for several languages of South Asia and Iran, some of them spurious: * Parsi, an alternative spelling of Farsi, the Persian language. * Parsi, the variety spoken by the Parsis of Gujarat and Maharashtra in India. It is taken to be a separate language by Ethnologue and assigned the ISO 639-3 code rp Glottolog treats it as spurious, as the Parsis do not have a distinct language but speak a dialect of Gujarati. * Parsi-Dari, a supposed language spoken by Zoroastrians in Iran. Ethnologue assigns it the ISO 639-3 code rd but Glottolog considers it spurious and a duplicate of the Zoroastrian Dari language Zoroastrian Dari ( fa, دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان literally Behdīnān dialect) is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian. ethnolect. Zoroastrian Dari used to be spoken by almost a million people in central Iran, up u ... bz * Parsi, a name occasionally used by speakers of Indo-Aryan languages of northern India to refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Rial
The rial ( fa, ریال ایران, riyâl-è Irân; sign: ﷼; abbreviation: Rl (singular) and Rls (plural) or IR in Latin; ISO code: IRR) is the official currency of Iran. There is no official symbol for the currency but the Iranian standard ISIRI 820 defined a symbol for use on typewriters (mentioning that it is an invention of the standards committee itself) and the two Iranian standards ISIRI 2900 and ISIRI 3342 define a character code to be used for it. The Unicode Standard has a compatibility character defined . A proposal has been agreed to by the Iranian parliament to drop four zeros, by replacing the rial with a new currency called the toman, the name of a previous Iranian currency, at the rate of 1 toman = 10,000 rials. History The rial was first introduced in 1798 as a coin worth 1,250 dinars or one-eighth of a '' toman''. In 1825, the rial ceased to be issued, with the qiran subdivided into 20 shahi or 1,000 dinars and was worth one-tenth of a toman, being is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party Of Indonesia (Parsi)
The Socialist Party of Indonesia ( id, Partai Sosialis Indonesia, ''Parsi'') was a political party in Indonesia. It was founded at a meeting in Jogjakarta on 13 November 1945.Mrázek, Rudolf. Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia'. Studies on Southeast Asia, no. 14. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. pp. 284-285 The Defence Minister Amir Sjarifuddin was the chairman of the party. Parsi was largely made up by Amir Sjarifuddin's former colleagues from the wartime resistance struggle in East Java. Some of them originated in Gerindo ('Indonesian People's Movement'), a leftwing, nationalist and pro-Sukarno group active before the war. There were also some persons, like Abdulmadjid, Moewaladi and Tamzil, who had lived in the Netherlands during the war, and taken part in the anti-fascist resistance struggle there. The primary objective of Parsi was the independence of Indonesia from colonial rule, which was to be followed by the construction of a socialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Parsis
Albert Parsis (2 June 1890 – 24 February 1980) was a French footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... References External links * 1890 births 1980 deaths French footballers France international footballers Olympic footballers of France Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tourcoing Association football goalkeepers Footballers from Hauts-de-France US Tourcoing FC players {{France-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsham Parsi
Arsham Parsi is an Iranian LGBT human rights activist living in exile in Canada. He is the founder and head of the International Railroad for Queer Refugees. Personal life Parsi was born in Shiraz, Iran. As a gay Iranian, he felt alone until at age 15 he discovered solace in the Internet. Parsi began volunteering for underground gay organizations. At age 19, he began working for PGLO and networked with doctors to provide HIV testing. He responded to emails from suicidal gay teenagers. The strict laws against homosexuality forced Parsi to keep his work secret from friends and family. But in March 2005, Parsi realized the police were looking for him and fled from Iran to Turkey, where he spent 13 months. Unable to return to Iran, Parsi lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Activism In 2001, Parsi had formed a small LGBT group online called Rangin Kaman (Rainbow Group), which was renamed as Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization in 2004. As the PGLO would not be recognized in Iran, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Campos Parsi
Héctor Campos Parsi (October 1, 1922 – January 30, 1998) was a Puerto Rican composer. He studied at the New England Conservatory with Francis Judd Cooke, he also studied with Paul Hindemith. In Tanglewood he studied with Olivier Messiaen and Aaron Copland and in France with Nadia Boulanger. Early years Héctor Campos Parsi was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His father was José Miguel Campos and his mother was Elisa Parsi Bernard. He only had one sibling, a sister, Mercedes Campos Parsi. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a bachelor's degree in humanities. He then enrolled at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México pursuing a degree in medicine, but discontinued his training there for health reasons. Subsequently, he completed a master's degree in humanities at the " Centro de Estudios Superiores de Puerto Rico y el Caribe", for which he wrote a thesis titled ''Unos bailan y otros lloran'' (Some dance and others cry). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi ( fa, تریتا پارسی, born 21 July 1974) is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, as well as the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council. He regularly writes articles and appears on TV to comment on foreign policy and is the author of ''Treacherous Alliance'', ''A Single Roll of the Dice'' and ''Losing an Enemy''. Early life and education Born in Behbahan, Iran, his father Dr. Touraj Parsi was a politically active university professor, at Jondi-Shapoor University of Ahvaz, who had been jailed twice, first by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and then following the Iranian Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini, and Parsi moved with his family to Sweden at the age of four in order to escape the political repression in Iran. Parsi earned a master's degree in international relations at Uppsala University and a second master's degree in economics at Stockholm School of Economics. As an adult, Parsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
