Persians
The term “Persians” refers to an ethnic group who speak the Western dialect of Persian and live in the modern country of Iran as well as the descendants of the people who emigrated from the territory of modern-day Iran to other countries. Today, the Persian community of Malaysia is the most populous, followed by the middle east in nations such as UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman. Significant communities also lie in the west, (notably USA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, France and other countries).
Ethnic Persians inhabit traditionally the Tehran province, Esfahan province, Fars province, Alborz province, Razavi Khorasan, South Khorasan, Yazd province, Kerman province, Bushehr province, Hormozgan province, Markazi province (Arak), Qom province, Gilan province, Mazandaran province, Semnan province, Qazvin province, the majority of Hamadan province including the city of Hamadan, parts of the North Khorasan, parts of Khuzestan province, parts of Lorestan province (Borujerd), northern half of Sistan and Baluchistan (Zabol), southern half of Golestan province (Gorgan), eastern half of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari including the city of Shahrekord.Ethnic Persians form also a sizeable population in the bilingual cities of Kermanshah, Ahvaz and Zahedan along with Shia Kurds, Shia Arabs and Sunni Baluchs respectively.The majority of the Iranian immigrants in the west and other parts of the world also hail from Persian speaking cities especially from Tehran.
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“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)