HOME
*





Persian Wikipedia's Main Page ScreenshotV2
Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians *** Persian alphabet, a writing system based on the Perso-Arabic script * People and things from the historical Persian Empire Other uses * Persian (patience), a card game * Persian (roll), a pastry native to Thunder Bay, Ontario * Persian (wine) * Persian, Indonesia, on the island of Java * Persian cat, a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle * The Persian, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera'' * Persian, a generation I Pokémon species * Alpha Indi, star also known as "The Persian" See also * Persian Empire (other) * Persian expedition (other) or Persian campaign * Persian Gulf (other) * ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


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 Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Persian Expedition (other)
Persian expedition or Persian campaign may refer to: * Persian campaign (Alexander the Great) (334–333 BC) *Julian's Persian expedition (363) * Persian expedition of Stepan Razin (1699) * Persian campaign of Peter the Great (1722–1723) * Persian expedition of 1796 of Catherine the Great * Persian campaign (World War I) The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran ( fa, اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire and Russian Empire in the Iranian Azerbaijan region of neu ... (1914–1918) See also * ''Anabasis'' (Xenophon), a written work, titled ''Persian Expedition'' in a well-known translation * List of wars involving Persia {{disambig ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


List Of Persia-related Topics
Persian culture and history * Persian architecture * Persian art * Persian Bayán * Persian calendar * Persian Canadians * Persian carpet * Persian Christians * Persian column * Persian Corridor * Persian Cossack Brigade * Persian cuisine * Persian dance * Persian deities * Persian embroidery * Persian Empire * Persian handicrafts * Persian Jewels * Persian Jews * Persian garden * Persian Gendarmerie * Persian grammar * Persian Gulf Service Command * Persian Hat * Persian appel dessert * Persian Constitutional Revolution * Persian Kings * Persian language * Persian language in the Indian subcontinent * Persian Letters * Persian literature * Persian weights and measures * Persian media * Persian miniature * Persian motifs * Persian music * Persian mythology * Persian names * Persian pickles * Persian studies * Persian New Year (Norouz) * Persian religions * Persian Sibyl * Persian tilework * Persian weave * Persian weblogs * Persian women * The Persian Encyclopedia * Persian Im ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




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 Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages * Iranian diaspora, Iranian people living outside Iran * Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia * List of Iranian foods, Iranian foods, list of Iranian foods and dishes * Iranian.com, also known as ''The Iranian'' and ''The Iranian Times'' See also

* Persian (other) * Iranians (other) * Languages of Iran * Ethnicities in Iran * Demographics of Iran * Indo-Iranian languages * Irani (other) * List of Iranians {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


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]  


Farsi (other)
Farsi is the indigenous name or endonym for Persian. It primarily refers to the Persian language. Farsi may also refer to: *something referring to or inhabitant of Fars Province, Iran *Persian people *Farsi, Afghanistan *Farsi District in Herat province, Afghanistan *Farsi Island, an Iranian island off the coast of Fars, Iran *Farsi village, located in Hormozgan province, Iran *Farsi1, a Persian-language TV channel See also * Persia (other) * Persian (other) * Iranian (other) * 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 Ot ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Farsi (Disambiguation) Iranian-language surnames ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Persia (other)
Persia, or Iran, is a country in Western Asia. Persia may also refer to: Places * The Achaemenid Empire (550 B.C. to 330 B.C.), an ancient Iranian empire based in Western Asia and founded by Cyrus the Great. * The Sasanian Empire (224–661) * The Tahirid dynasty (821–873) * The Alavid dynasty (864–928) * The Saffarid dynasty (861–1003) * The Samanid Empire (875–999) * The Timurid dynasty (1369–1507) **Timurid Empire * The Safavid dynasty (1501–1736) **Safavid Iran * The Qajar dynasty (1785–1925) **Qajar Iran * The Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979) **Pahlavi Iran * Persia proper, a region located to the southwest of modern Iran (now Fars Province) * Pars (Sasanian province) * Greater Iran * Persia, Iowa, a U.S. city * Persia, New York, a U.S. town * Persia, Tennessee, a U.S. unincorporated community Other uses * Persia (name), a Greek and Latin name for Iran * Persia gens, an ancient Roman family * ''Persia'' (trilobite) * ''Persia'' (EP), a 1984 EP by The Church * ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Persian War (other)
Persian War may refer to: * Persian War (horse) (1963–1984), British-trained racehorse * Persian Wars or Greco-Persian Wars * ''Persian War'', the first two books of ''The Wars of Justinian'' by Procopius See also * Anglo-Persian War * Gulf War (1991), also known as the Persian Gulf War, Operation Granby, or Operation Desert Storm * Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), also known as the Persian Gulf War or the First Gulf War * Iraq War (2003–2011), also known as the Second or Third Gulf War * Persian Wars (other) * Roman–Persian Wars * Russo-Persian War (1651–53) * Russo-Persian War (1722–23) * Russo-Persian War (1804–13) * Russo-Persian War (1826–28) * Russo-Persian Wars The Russo-Persian Wars or Russo-Iranian Wars were a series of conflicts between 1651 and 1828, concerning Iran, Persia (Iran) and the Russian Empire. Russia and Persia fought these wars over disputed governance of territories and countries in th ... ** Persian Expedition of 1796 (Russo-Persian ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Persian Sea (other)
Persian Sea may refer to: * Arabian Sea, a sea in the Indian Ocean bordering the Arabian Peninsula, India, Iran, and Pakistan * Persian Gulf, a gulf between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran * Gulf of Oman, a gulf between the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf * Erythraean Sea, an obsolete term for waters in and near the Gulf of Aden See also * Persian Gulf naming dispute, concern since the 1960s with the name of the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran * Persian Gulf (other) Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. Persian Gulf may also refer to: *, a warship *Persian Gulf University, Bushehr Province, Iran *Persian Gulf (missile), an Iranian anti-ship munition * Persian Gulf forever, song by Ebi *Persia ...
{{Disambiguation ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Persian Music (other)
Persian music may refer to various types of the music of Persia/Iran or other Persian-speaking countries: *Persian traditional music *Persian ritual music *Persian pop music *Persian symphonic music *Persian piano music See also *Music of Iran The music of Iran encompasses music that is produced by Iranian artists. In addition to the traditional folk and classical genres, it also includes pop and internationally celebrated styles such as jazz, rock, and hip hop. Iranian music infl ...
{{disambig ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Persian Invasion (other)
Persian invasion may refer to: * Persian invasion of Scythia, 513 BC * Greco-Persian Wars ** First Persian invasion of Greece, 492–490 BC ** Second Persian invasion of Greece The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion ..., 480–479 BC * Persian Invasion of Daghestan, 1741–1743 AD {{disambig ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Persian Gulf (other)
Persian Gulf is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. Persian Gulf may also refer to: *, a warship *Persian Gulf University, Bushehr Province, Iran * Persian Gulf (missile), an Iranian anti-ship munition * Persian Gulf forever, song by Ebi *Persian Gulf (horse) (1940–1964), a British thoroughbred racehorse See also * * Persian Gulf War (other) *Persian Gulf naming dispute The Persian Gulf naming dispute is concerned with the name of the body of water known historically and internationally as the Persian Gulf, after Persia (the Western exonym for Iran). This name has become contested by some Arab countries since t ...
{{Disambiguation ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]