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Fars province (Persian: استان فارس; / f ɑːr s /) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.Its capital is the city of Shiraz. [11]Fars province has an area of 122,400 km 2 and is located in Iran's southwest, in Region 2.
Fars territory or Ancient Persia (Persian: سرزمین فارس یا پارس کهن, in Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa) [1]) in the southern part of Iran leading to the Persian Gulf, which has historical, continental, cultural and especially dialectal commonalities and includes the provinces of Khuzestan, Fars, Esfahan, Bushehr ...
Dialects of Fars are a group of Southwestern Iranian dialects spoken in the central Fars province. The southwestern dialects can be divided into three families of dialects according to geographical distribution and local names: Southwestern ( Lori ), South-central ( Kuhmareyi ) and Southeastern ( Larestani ).
Shiraz (Persian: شیراز; / ʃ ɪəˈr ɑː z / ⓘ; [ʃiːˈɾɒːz] ⓘ) [a] is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran [b] and the capital of Fars province, [4] which has been historically known as Pars (پارس, Pārs) and Persis. [5]
The standard Persian of Iran has been called, apart from Persian and Farsi, by names such as Iranian Persian and Western Persian, exclusively. [46] [47] The official language of Iran is designated simply as Persian (فارسی, fārsi). [9] The standard Persian of Afghanistan has been officially named Dari (دری, dari) since 1958. [14]
The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized: Alefbâ-ye Fârsi), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and 'p', respectively), in addition to the ...
The Persians (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən z / PUR-zhənz or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən z / PUR-shənz) are a Western Iranian ethnic group who comprise the majority of the population of Iran. [4] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
Pars (Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩 Pārs) [1] was a Sasanian province in Late Antiquity, which almost corresponded to the present-day province of Fars. The province bordered Khuzestan in the west, Kirman in the east, Spahan in the north, and Mazun in the south.