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  2. Iranian peoples - Wikipedia

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    [79] [84] Various extinct Iranian peoples existed in the eastern Caucasus, including the Azaris, while some Iranian peoples remain in the region, including the Talysh [85] and the Tats [86] found in Azerbaijan and as far north as the Russian republic of Dagestan. A remnant of the Sogdians is found in the Yaghnobi-speaking population in parts of ...

  3. List of ancient Iranian peoples - Wikipedia

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    Map 12: Persian Empire in Achaemenid era, 6th century BC, showing names of ancient Iranian peoples in the Iranian Plateau and southern Central Asia on the right side of the map Map 13: Ancient regions of Iranian Plateau and part of South Central Asia showing ancient Iranian peoples and tribes; this map also shows ancient peoples of the Indus ...

  4. List of geographic names of Iranian origin - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from the Gharmi people, and Iranian people. Kofarnihon The name comes from the Persian کافر نهان, literally meaning "place where unbelievers hide". Murghab Derived from the Persian word مرغاب meaning "river of the birds". Panjakent Persian پنج‌کند which means Five Cities.

  5. Persians - Wikipedia

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    The Persians (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən z / PUR-zhənz or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən z / PUR-shənz) are a Western Iranian ethnic group who comprise the majority 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.

  6. Category:Iranian people of European descent - Wikipedia

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    Iranian people of Turkish descent (1 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 07:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  7. Alans - Wikipedia

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    The ethnonym Alān is a dialectal variant of the Old Iranian *Aryāna, itself derived from the root arya-, meaning 'Aryan', the common self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 1 ] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a ...

  8. Iranian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Iranian diaspora (collectively known as Iranian expats or expatriates) is the global population of Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. [ 3 ] In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics which showed that 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.

  9. List of Eurasian countries by population - Wikipedia

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    Iran: 78,778,000: 1.54: 1.29: ... List of Asian countries by population; List of European countries by population; List of sovereign states and dependent territories ...