Persian may refer to:
* People and things from
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 Turkm ...
, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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Persians
The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
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, 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 (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...
, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians
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Persian alphabet
The Persian alphabet ( fa, الفبای فارسی, Alefbâye Fârsi) is a writing system that is a version of the Arabic script used for the Persian language spoken in Iran (Iranian Persian, Western Persian) and Afghanistan (Dari, Dari Persi ...
, a writing system based on the Perso-Arabic script
* People and things from the historical
Persian Empire
Other uses
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Persian (patience) Persian Patience (or simply Persian) is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in Piquet and Bezique, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos ...
, 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 Persian is a populated place in Jepara Regency, Central Java on the island of Java, Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of ...
, on the island of Java
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Persian cat
The Persian cat (), also known as the Persian longhair, is a long-haired breed of cat characterized by a round face and short muzzle. The first documented ancestors of Persian cats were imported into Italy from Persia around 1620. Widely recog ...
, a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle
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The Persian
The Persian is a major character from the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel '' The Phantom of the Opera''. In the book he is the one who tells most of the background of Erik's history. Erik refers to him as the "daroga" (, Persian for "police-chief") a ...
, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera''
* Persian, a
generation I Pokémon species
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Alpha Indi, star also known as "The Persian"
See also
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Persian Empire (disambiguation)
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Persian expedition (disambiguation) 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)
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or Persian campaign
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Persian Gulf (disambiguation)
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
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Persian invasion (disambiguation) 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, 480–479 BC
* Persian Invasion of Daghestan
Nader's Dagestan campa ...
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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 ritual music
*Persian pop music
Iranian pop music or Persian pop music ( fa, موسیقی پاپ ای ...
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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, a gulf between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran
* Gulf of Oman, a gulf between the Arabian Sea and Persian ...
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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 War ...
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Persia (disambiguation)
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)
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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:
*something referring to or inhabitant of Fars Province, Iran
*Persian people
* Farsi, Afghanistan
* Farsi District in Herat ...
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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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Iranian (disambiguation)
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 lan ...
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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 cuisine
* Pe ...
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List of Persian-language poets and authors
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