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
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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 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 a ...
, 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 Perso-Arabic script
* People and things from the historical
Persian Empire
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
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, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera''
* Persian, a
generation I Pokémon species
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Alpha Indi
Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ...
, star also known as "The Persian"
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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
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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)
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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
*Persian symphonic music
*Persian piano music
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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 p ...
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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
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List of Persian-language poets and authors
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. This list is alphabetized by chronological o ...
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