Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

PERSIA

Persia: translation

Persia is the old name for the country now calledIran. Reza Shah Pahlavichanged the name to Iran, the land of the Aryans, in 1935. The name Persia comes from the country's southern province, Fars, from where the Achaemenids came to establish the original Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great in 550 BCE. Persian (Farsi) is the national language of Iran, but many of its people speak variants of Turkish, Kurdish, and Arabic. Kurdish is related to Persian. Historically, Persia has been closely associated with the Kurds, who are ethnically related to the Persians but ethnically distinct from the Arabs and Turks.
In 1514, theOttomansultan Selim Yavuz (the Grim) defeated Shah Ismail of the Safavid Persians at the famousBattle of Chal-dirannortheast of Lake Van in what is now easternTurkey. In the succeeding centuries, Kurdistan became a frontier between the two empires and suffered accordingly. In addition, both empires deported entire Kurdishtribes. Their descendants still live today in areas south of Ankara, Turkey, and in the province of Khorasan, Iran, some 1,000 miles east of their original homeland and even farther east in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush Mountains. TheTreaty of Zuhabin 1639 established the boundary that basically still exists today between Turkey and Iran.

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  5. persia—[p]Персия Иран...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  6. persia—n персия...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  7. persia—Persia noun Персия см. Iran...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  8. persia—сущ. Персия см. Iran...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  9. persia—перся...Англо-український словник
  10. persia—n геогр. н. ст. Перся див. Iran....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  11. persia—prsia f v. ltgt Итальянорусский словарь....Большой итальяно-русский и русско-итальянский словарь
  12. pèrsia—ист. Персия в настоящее время Иран Итальянорусский словарь....Большой итальяно-русский и русско-итальянский словарь
  13. persia—ae f. Plem Persis I...Латинско-русский словарь
  14. persia—[p] n геогр. ист.Персия см. Iran...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  15. persia—Persia [p] n геогр. ист.i Персия см. iIran...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  16. persia—p n геогр. ист. Персия см. emIran...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна