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In pre-Islamic Arabia, there were many Arabs who lived in the cultural sphere of Persia and thus used Persian as their written language. They were referred to as Persian Arabs (Arabic: العرب الفرس Al-‘Arab al-Furs). [5] At the time of the Sasanian Empire, there was a notable Arab-Persian community called Al-Abnaʾ (الأبناء, lit.
Iranian Arabs (Arabic: عرب إيران ʿArab-e Īrān; Persian: عربهای ايران Arabhā-ye Irān) are the citizens of Iran who are ethnically Arab. [4] In 2008, their population stood at about 1.6 million people. [5]
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) Facing the possibility of a Russian conquest of Tehran and with Tabriz already occupied, Persia signed the Treaty of Turkmenchay; decisive and final cession of the last Caucasian territories of Iran comprising modern-day Armenia, the remainder of the Azerbaijan Republic that was still in Iranian hands, and Igdir ...
According to the 2016 population census the population of Iran was 79.9 million, [1] a fourfold increase since 1956. Between 1976 and 1986, an average annual population growth of almost 4% was reached, but due to decreasing fertility levels the growth decreased to 1.2% between 2011 and 2016.
Beginning in the Abbasid period, with its mix of Persian as well as Arab rulers, the Muslim percentage of the population rose. As Persian Muslims consolidated their rule of the country, the Muslim population rose from approximately 40% in the mid-9th century to close to 90% by the end of the 11th century. [87]
This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
The population of the Arab world as estimated in 2023 was about 473 million inhabitants, [3] but no exact figures of the annual population growth, fertility rate, or mortality rate are known to exist. Over 59 percent of the Arab population is concentrated in urban areas [4] and the number is expected to reach 68 percent by 2050. [5]
Country Projected population (10 February 2025) Pct of total UN Population estimates Annual growth [a] Doubling time (years) [b] 1 July 2023 1 July 2022 Increment