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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 ...
The Persian is a cat from Persia (now Iran ). It is one of the oldest breeds of domesticated cats. It has a long and rich history that can be traced back to ancient Persia. The first documented reference to the Persian cat was in a book written by an Islamic scholar named Ibn Al-Nafis in 1258 AD. [1] He described them as a longhaired cat that ...
Persian fallow deer. The Persian fallow deer ( Dama dama mesopotamica) ( gavazn-i zard in Persian) ( Yah-mur in modern Hebrew) is a rare ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. Its taxonomic status is disputed, with some maintaining it as a subspecies of the fallow deer, [2] while others treat it as a separate species, Dama mesopotamica.
Persian Gulf from space, seen by satellite. The Persian Gulf is the name of a geographical place. Its location is in the Middle East. It is an extension of the Gulf of Oman. It is between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and the Arabs prefer to call it the "Gulf of the Arabs". During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Persian Gulf came into news.
Old Persian is an Old Iranian language, a member of the Southwestern Iranian language group. As an Iranian language, Old Persian is a member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Old Persian subsequently developed into Middle Persian, which is in turn the nominal ancestor of New Persian .
The Greco–Persian Wars were a series of wars fought between Classical Greece and Persia 's Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. The struggle lasted 50 years, from 499–449. Herodotus wrote a history of the war. Fifty years before the war started, Cyrus the Great had conquered the Greek colonies on the western coast of Asia Minor, an area ...
Persian. Persian might mean: Something related to Iran, which used to be called Persia before 1935. Persian language. Persian people. Persian Empire. Achaemenid Empire, one of the Persian Empires. Persian (cat), a cat breed.
