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 Turkmeni ...

, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language **

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. ...

, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples **

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...

, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians ***

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 ( Western Persian) and Afghanistan (Dari Persian) since the 7th cent ...

, a writing system based on the Perso-Arabic script * People and things from the historical

Persian Empire The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, wikt:𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an History of Iran#Classical antiquity, ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Bas ...

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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 *

Persian (roll) A Persian, Persian roll or Pershing is a fried sweet roll or doughnut with a spiral shape similar to a cinnamon bun. It may be covered with a sugar glaze, iced or frosted, or sprinkled with sugar or cinnamon sugar. Regional variations In Thunder ...

, a pastry native to Thunder Bay, Ontario *

Persian (wine) Persian wine, also called Mey ( fa, ) and Badeh (), is a cultural symbol and tradition in Iran (Persia), and has a significant presence in Persian mythology, Persian poetry and Persian miniatures. History Recent archaeological research has pushe ...

* Persian, Indonesia, on the island of Java *

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 *

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") an ...

, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera'' * Persian, a generation I Pokémon species *

Alpha Indi Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first Letter (alphabet), letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician al ...

, star also known as "The Persian"

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