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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.
The majority of the population of Iran (approximately 80%) consists of Iranian peoples. [1] The largest groups in this category include Persians, mostly referred to as Fars (who form 61% of the Iranian population) and Kurds (who form 10% of the Iranian population), with other communities including Semnanis, Khorasani Kurds, Larestanis, Khorasani Balochs, Gilakis, Laks, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats ...
Saladin, a noted adversary of the Crusaders, was an ethnic Kurd, while various empires centered in Iran (including the Safavids) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and the Caucasus.
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
Iran is a mosaic of diverse ethnic groups, contrary to popular belief that all Iranians are "just Persian". [ 30 ] [ 31 ] According to a 1939 survey and Anthropological study of the people of Iran, [ 32 ] : 209 these were the ethnic groups that resided in the following areas of Iran:
Iran, [a] [b] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) [c] and also known as Persia, [d] is a country in West Asia.It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Arab-Persians (Arabic: الفرس العرب; Persian: عرب های پارسی) are people who are of mixed Arab and Persian descent. Historically, inter-ethnic marriages between Arabs and Persians have been common in Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, and Bahrain, as well as in Lebanon and Syria, albeit to a lesser extent.
Persians, Iranian ethnic group comprising over half of the population of Iran; The nationals of Iran. Iranian nationality law; Demographics of Iran; See also.