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The term Persian, meaning "from Persia", derives from Latin Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), [24] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which evolves into Fārs in modern Persian. [25] In the Bible, particularly in the books of Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemya, it is given as Pārās (פָּרָס).
In Iran, Persian Jews and Jewish people in general are both described with four common terms: Kalīmī (Persian: کلیمی), which is considered the most proper term; Yahūdī (یهودی), which is less formal but correct; Yīsrael (ישראל ) the term Jewish people use to refer to themselves as descendents of the Children of Israel; [6 ...
The dinar (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɑː r /) is the name of the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, with a more widespread historical use. The English word "dinar" is the transliteration of the Arabic دينار ( dīnār ), which was borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā from the Latin dēnārius .
The Iranian toman (Persian: تومان, romanized: tūmân, pronounced [tuː.mɒːn]; from Turko-Mongolian tümen "unit of ten thousand", [1] [2] [a] see the unit called tumen) is a superunit of the official currency of Iran, the rial. One toman is equivalent to 10 (old), or 10,000 (new, official) rials.
Iran Collection, a website about Persian banknotes and coins since Qajar era. Archived January 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine; Statistics, Central Bank of Iran; Iran travel guide from Wikivoyage (information on currency exchange and credit card payment) Latest news about Iran currency, Financialtribune, The First Iranian English Economic ...
Ethnic Arabs and Arabic speakers live alongside Persians primarily in the Khuzestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, and Khorasan regions of Iran. Intermarriages exist between Iranian Arabs and Iranian Persians. [12] [13] Over 1 million Iranian Sayyids are of Arab descent but most are Persianized, mixed and consider themselves Persian and Iranian today. [14]
Although Darius the Great called his language arya-("Iranian"), [25] modern scholars refer to it as Old Persian [25] because it is the ancestor of the modern Persian language. [26] The trilingual inscription erected by the command of Shapur I gives a more clear description. The languages used are Parthian, Middle Persian, and Greek.
The historian and Iranologist Elton L. Daniel explains that for centuries, Iranian rulers maintained contacts with Arabs outside their borders, dealt with Arab subjects and client states such as those of the Lakhmids and Himyarites, and settled Arab tribesmen in various parts of the Iranian Plateau. [9] The Arab expedition to Iran began before ...