Persians - Wikipedia Persians ( ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən z PUR-zhənz), [note 2] or the Persian people (Persian: مردم فارس), are an Iranian ethnic group from West Asia [4] 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
Persian | People, Language Religion | Britannica Persian, predominant ethnic group of Iran (formerly known as Persia) Although of diverse ancestry, the Persian people are united by their language, Persian (Farsi), which belongs to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family
Persian Empire - Map, Timeline Founder - HISTORY The Persian Empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modern-day Iran that spanned several centuries—from the sixth century B C to the 20th century A D
Ancient Persian Culture - World History Encyclopedia Ancient Persian culture flourished between the reign of Cyrus II (The Great, r c 550-530 BCE), founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and the fall of the Sassanian Empire in 651 CE Even so, the foundations of Persian culture were already set prior to the 3rd millennium BCE
Who were the ancient Persians? - Live Science The Persians, the ancient inhabitants of what is now Iran, created one of the ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550 B C to 330 B C
When Did Persia Become Iran and Why? - History Hit Persia was first coined by the Greeks as a term to refer to Cyrus the Great’s empire It stemmed from the the word Parsa, the name of the group of people from which Cyrus the Great emerged to rule Thus the word Persia is an exonym, a name that is given to a group of people by an outside force
Persian Ethnicity People and Language | Destination Iran The Persians, predominantly residing in the central plateau of Iran, are descendants of the ancient Indo-Iranian people who established some of the world’s earliest civilizations This ethnicity is characterized by its profound contributions to culture, language, and religion, forming the cornerstone of Persian identity
History of Iran - Wikipedia The history of Iran (also known as Persia) is intertwined with Greater Iran, which is a socio-cultural region encompassing all of the areas that have witnessed significant settlement or influence by the Iranian peoples and the Iranian languages – chiefly the Persians and the Persian language
Persians - Encyclopedia. com Persians are an ethnic group defined primarily by language and location The Persian language, also known as Farsi, which linguists classify in the Indo-Iranian Branch of the Indo-European Language Family, had about 23 million speakers in Iran in 1986 and 6 million in Afghanistan the same year (Grimes 1988)
Understanding Persians Persians (present day Iranians) are descendents of a long and glorious empire founded 2,500 years ago by Cyrus the Great and brilliantly governed by his successors Cambyses, Darius, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, and others