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The survey had a cooperation rate of 31.2%. Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Persian monarchy, with over 40% settling in ...
Fatemeh Keshavarz, scholar of Rumi and Farsi language & poetry, and poet in Persian and English; Director & Chair of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. Previously, was a professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis
The Persians or Iranian Persians ( / ˈpɜːrʒənz / PUR-zhənz or / ˈpɜːrʃənz / PUR-shənz) are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half 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 Parsis (singular: Parsi / ˈpɑːrsi /) [5] or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of the Persian Empire (part of the early Muslim conquests) to escape religious persecution.
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States and Governor of Indiana Territory. Richard Hatcher, Gary mayor ( Gary) John Hay, U.S. Secretary of State ( Salem) Will H. Hays, U.S. Postmaster General ( Sullivan) Thomas A. Hendricks, U.S. Senator and Vice President (Indianapolis)
Map 7: Scythian cultures of Scythian, Sarmatians and Saka Iranian peoples located in the Western Eurasian steppe ( Central Asia and Europe) from ca. 900 BC - 200 AD. Map 8: Dahae tribal confederation. Map 9: Roxolani, Siraces and Aorsi in the 4th century BC. Map 10: Alan migrations in the context of the Migration Period.
Before British colonisation, the Persian language was the lingua franca of the Indian subcontinent and a widely used official language in North India. [a] The language was brought into South Asia by various Turkics and Afghans and was preserved and patronized by Local Indian dynasties from the 11th century onwards, notable of which were the ...
Iranian diaspora. The Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. [3] This includes the varying ethnicities of the Iranian people including the following groups: Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lors, Baluchs, Arabs, Turkomens, Assyrians, and Armenians. In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran ...