Persian may refer to:
* People and things from
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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Persians
Persians ( ), or the Persian people (), are an Iranian ethnic group from West Asia that came from an earlier group called the Proto-Iranians, which likely split from the Indo-Iranians in 1800 BCE from either Afghanistan or Central Asia. They ...
, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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Persian language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...
, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians
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Persian alphabet, a writing system based on the Arabic script
* People and things from the historical
Persian Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (; , , ), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the larg ...
Other uses
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Persian (patience), a card game
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Persian (roll), a pastry native to Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Persian (wine)
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Persian, Indonesia, on the island of Java
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Persian cat, a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle
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The Persian, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera''
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The Persians, an ancient Greek tragedy play written by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus in the 5th century BC
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''Persa'' (play) or ''The Persian'', comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus
* Persian, a
generation I Pokémon species
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Alpha Indi, star also known as "The Persian"
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Persian Empire (disambiguation)
The Persian Empire (also known as the Achaemenid Empire) was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BCE.
Persian Empire may also refer to:
* Parthian Empire or Arsacid Empire (247 BCE–224 CE)
* Sasanian Em ...
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Persian expedition (disambiguation) or Persian campaign
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Persian Gulf (disambiguation)
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Persian invasion (disambiguation) Persian invasion may refer to:
* Persian invasion of Scythia, 513 BC
* Greco-Persian Wars
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Polis, Greek city-states that st ...
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Persian music (disambiguation) Persian music may refer to various types of the music of Persia/Iran or other Persian-speaking countries:
*Persian traditional music
Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian class ...
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Persian Sea (disambiguation)
Persian Sea may refer to:
* Arabian Sea, a sea in the Indian Ocean bordering the Arabian Peninsula, India, Iran, and Pakistan
* Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a Mediterranean seas, mediterranean sea ...
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Persian War (disambiguation) 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 W ...
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Persia (disambiguation)
Persia, or Iran, is a country in Western Asia.
Persia or Persias, may also refer to:
Places
* The Achaemenid Empire (550 BC–330 BC), an ancient Iranian empire
* The Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD)
* The Sasanian Empire (224–661)
* The Tah ...
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Farsi (disambiguation)
Farsi () is the indigenous name or endonym for Persian. It primarily refers to the Persian language.
Farsi may also refer to:
* Persian people
* Farsi, Afghanistan
* Farsi District in Herat province, Afghanistan
* Farsi Island, an Iranian island ...
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Parsi (disambiguation)
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
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Parsian (disambiguation) Parsian may refer to:
* Parsian Bank, a bank in Iran
* Parsian, Iran, a city in Iran
* Parsian County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
* Parsian, Bandar Abbas, a village in Iran
See also
* Parisian (disambiguation)
* Persian (disambiguat ...
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Iranian (disambiguation)
Iranian () may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Iran
** Iranian diaspora, Iranians living outside Iran
** Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia
** Iranian cuisine, cooking traditions and practic ...
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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 cuisi ...
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List of Persian-language poets and authors
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian literature, Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajik ...
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