21 Facts About Persian people

Ancient Persians were originally an ancient Iranian people who had migrated to the region of Persis by the 9th century BCE.

Persian people literature is one of the world's most prominent literary traditions.

In contemporary terminology, people from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan who natively speak the Persian language are known as Tajiks, with the former two countries having their own dialects of Persian known as Dari and Tajiki, respectively; whereas those in the Caucasus, albeit heavily assimilated, are known as Tats.

Many influential Persian people figures hailed from outside of Iran's present-day borders—to the northeast in Afghanistan and Central Asia, and to a lesser extent within the Caucasus proper to the northwest.

Some medieval and early modern Islamic sources used cognates of the term Persian to refer to various Iranian peoples and languages, including the speakers of Khwarazmian, Mazanderani, and Old Azeri.

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However, the term Persian is still historically used to designate the predominant population of the Iranian peoples living in the Iranian cultural continent.

The name of this region was adopted by a nomadic ancient Iranian people who migrated to the region in the west and southwest of Lake Urmia, eventually becoming known as "the Persians".

The Medes, another group of ancient Iranian Persian people, unified the region under an empire centered in Media, which would become the region's leading cultural and political power of the time by 612 BC.

Middle Persian people, which is the immediate ancestor of Modern Persian people and a variety of other Iranian dialects, became the official language of the empire and was greatly diffused among Iranians.

Contemporary embracement of the legacy of Iran's ancient empires, with an emphasis on the Achaemenid Persian people Empire, developed particularly under the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty, providing the motive of a modern nationalistic pride.

Persian people language belongs to the western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

Old Persian people is one of the oldest Indo-European languages attested in original text.

Samples of Old Persian people have been discovered in present-day Iran, Armenia, Egypt, Iraq, Romania, and Turkey.

The oldest attested text written in Old Persian people is from the Behistun Inscription, a multilingual inscription from the time of Achaemenid ruler Darius the Great carved on a cliff in western Iran.

The origin of the Tat Persian people is traced to an Iranian-speaking population that was resettled in the Caucasus by the time of the Sasanian Empire.

Persian people-speaking communities native to modern Arab countries are generally designated as Ajam, including the Ajam of Bahrain, the Ajam of Iraq, and the Ajam of Kuwait.

From Persis and throughout the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian empires of ancient Iran to the neighboring Greek city states and the kingdom of Macedon, and later throughout the medieval Islamic world, all the way to modern Iran and others parts of Eurasia, Persian people culture has been extended, celebrated, and incorporated.

Persian people language is known to have one of the world's oldest and most influential literatures.

Old Persian people written works are attested on several inscriptions from between the 6th and the 4th centuries BC, and Middle Persian people literature is attested on inscriptions from the Parthian and Sasanian eras and in Zoroastrian and Manichaean scriptures from between the 3rd to the 10th century AD.

New Persian people literature flourished after the Arab conquest of Iran with its earliest records from the 9th century, and was developed as a court tradition in many eastern courts.

Architectural elements from the time of Iran's ancient Persian people empires have been adopted and incorporated in later period.