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The '''Persians''' are an [[ethnic group]] that lives mainly in [[Iran]], in [[Afghanistan]], [[Tajikstan]], and [[Uzbekistan]]. In [[Central Asia]] they are called '''[[Tajiks]]'''. Their language, called [[Persian language|Persian]] (local name: Farsi), is from the [[Indo-Iranian]] family of languages. The group is descended from the [[Aryan]]s, an [[Indo-European]] people that migrated to Iran from Central Asia c. 1000 BC. The first record of the Persians comes from an [[Assyria]]n inscription from the 800s BC which calls them the ''Parsu'' and mentions them alongside another Aryan group, the ''Madai'' ([[Mede]]s).

The Persians became the rulers of a large empire under the [[Achaemenid dynasty]] in the sixth century BCEBC. Over the centuries [[Persia]] was ruled by various dynasties; some of them were ethnic Persians (the [[Sassanid dynasty|Sassanids]], [[Buwayhid]]s, [[Samanid]]s, and others), and some of them were not (the [[Seleucid Dynasty|Seleucids]], [[Seljuk Turks]], [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]], [[Safavid Dynasty|Safavids]], and others).

The Persian civilization spawned three major religions: [[Zoroastrianism]], [[Mithraism]], and [[Manichaeanism]]. All of these reflect the extreme [[dualism]] of Persian culture.