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The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of February 2025, it has 1,029,456 articles, 1,373,276 registered users, and 95,882 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature; Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam; The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music (2000) Encyclopedia of Islam World; Encyclopedia Islamica; The Persian Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Sophistication (2003) Treasure Box of Knowledge (1993) Persian Wikipedia (2004)
The Persian Encyclopedia (Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions of ...
Iranian Persian (excl. other Persian dialects) Indo-European: Iranian: 62 million 17 million 78 million Javanese: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian — — 68 million Italian: Indo-European: Romance: 64 million 3 million 67 million Gujarati: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 58 million 5 million 63 million Thai: Kra–Dai: Zhuang–Tai: 21 million 40 ...
"New Persian" is the name given to the final stage of development of Persian language. The term Persian is an English derivation of Latin Persiānus, the adjectival form of Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), [12] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), [13] which means "Persia" (a region in southwestern Iran corresponding to modern-day Fars province).
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
Standard Persian (Persian: فارسی معیار) is the standard variety of Persian that is the official language of Iran [5] and Tajikistan [6] and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. [7] It is a set of spoken and written formal varieties used by the educated persophones of several nations around the world. [8]
Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.