Persan (inhabitant of Persia)

This article is about the Persan ones of Iran. For the Persan ones of the Central Asia, see Tadjiks .
The Persans (or the Persian people and Persan Westerners ) living in Iran (Persian) are a Iranian people which speaks the Persan and which shares a culture and a common history.

Significant populations the Persan ones reside from now on apart from Iran, the greatest communities being met with the the United States, in Germany, with the Canada and in Iraq. The smallest communities are located in the adjoining countries and on the Arabic Péninsule.

Terminology

The term of Persia was adopted in all the Western languages via the Greeks, and was the official name of Iran, used by the Occident until 1935. Being given this name, all the Iranians were regarded as Persans. Consequently, in the history of Iran, of many Western sources will name " Persans" not-Persan Iranians, distinguishing nationality then but not necessarily the ethnicity.

History

Persians are descendants of the tribes of the Aryen S which started to migrate from the Central Asia towards the future Iran, at the second millenium before J-C.

Related articles

External bonds

  • Persan Westerners on Statistical Ethnologue.com
  • on the geographical distribution of Persan in the whole world (Joshua Project)
  • About the Diaspora Persian

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