Persians - Wikipedia
The ancient Persians were originally an ancient Iranian people who had migrated to the region of Persis (corresponding to the modern-day Iranian province of Fars) by the 9th century BCE.
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.
Who were the ancient Persians? - Live Science
2022年7月14日 · The ancient Persians were an Indo-Iranian people who migrated to the Iranian plateau during the end of the second millennium B.C., possibly from the Caucasus or Central Asia.
Iranian vs Persian: What's the Difference? - ThoughtCo
2024年7月26日 · Modern Iran is comprised of a large number of different ethnic and tribal groups. People who identify as Persian account for the majority, but there are also large numbers of Azeri, Gilaki, and Kurdish people, too. While all citizens of Iran are Iranians, only some can identify their lineage in Persia.
Iranian peoples - Wikipedia
The Iranian peoples, [1] or the Iranic peoples, [2] are the collective ethno-linguistic groups [3] who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family.
Ten Ancient Persia Facts You Need to Know - World History ...
2020年9月17日 · Aryan meant “noble” or “free man” and referred to a class of people, not a nationality. One of these Aryan tribes settled in the territory of Persis (also known as Parsa, modern-day Fars), and from Persis, the Greek writer Herodotus (l. c. 484-425/413 BCE) called the people Persians .
Ancient Persian Culture - World History Encyclopedia
2019年11月27日 · 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.