• largest ethnicity in Iran. Other Turkic groups include the Turkmen, Qashqai and Kazakhs peoples. Arabs account for about 1-2% of the Iranian population...
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  • This article focuses on the status of ethnic minorities in contemporary Iran. The majority of the Iranian population is formed by the Persians (estimated...
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    Languages and ethnicities in Iran. In addition to its international migration pattern, Iran also exhibits one of the steepest urban growth rates in the world...
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  • Iranians (disambiguation) Languages of Iran Ethnicities in Iran Demographics of Iran Indo-Iranian languages Irani (disambiguation) List of Iranians This...
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    Iran's ethnic diversity means that the languages of Iran come from a number of linguistic origins, although the primary language spoken and used is Persian...
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    of debate, most notably regarding the largest and second largest ethnicities in Iran, the Persians and Azerbaijanis. Percentages given by the CIA's World...
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    Christian denominations are represented in Iran. Many members of the larger and older churches belong to minority ethnic groups, with the Armenians and Assyrians...
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    Azerbaijani ethnicity. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. They are mainly of Iranian descent. They are primarily found in and...
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    arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California...
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    separatist movements in Iran, most of which are associated with a particular minority ethnic group. Iran is a highly diverse country: in 2015, it was estimated...
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  • Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking;...
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  • conquest of Iran, which culminated in the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the nascent Rashidun Caliphate, brought about a monumental change in Iranian society...
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    Iraqi citizens of Iranian ancestry. Most of them went to Iran. Most could prove an Iranian ancestry in Iran's court received Iranian citizenship (400,000)...
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  • Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran is a 2013 book by Alam Saleh in which the author examines inter-ethnic tension and the politicization of ethnic...
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    Tajiks (redirect from Tajiks in Iran)
    Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan...
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  • Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that...
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  • Circassians in Iran are an ethnic minority in Iran. Circassians in Iran differ somewhat from other Circassian diasporas, in that most in the former stem...
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    Azerbaijanis (redirect from Ethnic Azeris)
    Türkləri, آذربایجان تۆرکلری) are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are...
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    Iranians in Germany (German: Iraner in Deutschland) include immigrants from Iran to Germany as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background...
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  • ethnic minority) 4 autonomous okrugs (usually with substantial or predominant ethnic minority) 1 autonomous oblast Population pyramids of ethnicities...
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  • PUR-zhənz or /ˈpɜːrʃənz/ PUR-shənz) are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise the majority of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and...
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    Georgians in Iran Semites Arabs in Iran Assyrians in Iran Jews in Iran Persian Jews Mandaeans Turkic peoples Azerbaijanis in Iran Qashqai Turkmen in Iran Because...
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  • Iranians in Qatar or Qatari Persians accounts for some 30,000 people of the Iranian diaspora. In 1908 the Qatar population was numbered at 27,000. Out...
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    provinces of Iran. The province is 28,817 km2 in area and its capital is the city of Sanandaj. Kurdistan province is located in the west of Iran, in Region...
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  • Norwegian-Iranians are ethnic Persians, with sizeable ethnic minorities being Iranian Azerbaijanis, Kurd-Iranians, Arab-Iranians, Northern Iranians (Gilak...
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    ary; Bactrian: αρια, aria) was the ethnonym used by Iranians during the early History of Iran. In contrast to cognates of Arya used by the Vedic people...
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  • or joint ethnic origin in the census survey. Iranian-Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian-Canadian, partly due to the fact that, in the Western...
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  • This is a list of notable Iranian-Americans of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and...
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    identity and ethnicity in Iran. Mehri publication, London. pg. 440. "Ahmady, Kameel. Investigation of the Ethnic Identity Challenge in Iran- A Peace-Oriented...
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  • Iranian Jews in Israel refers to the community of Iranian Jews who immigrated to Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and later the State of Israel...
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