Re: Why Beijing?


"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

John Atkinson wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
>
> "Persia" is the name the country had before "Iran" was plucked out > of
> history to make an illusory connection with the Achaemenids. The
> political term "Persia" comes from the name of the province Fars.

Indeed. Interesting, but irrelevant to present-day usage. Today, all
immigrants from that country call themselves "Iranian" or
"Iranian-Australian". Some of them are ethnic Persians; these have
Farsi as their native language, though not all Farsi-speakers would
self-identify as "Persians". Other immigrants from Iran -- Azaris,
Kurds, Assyrians, Hazaras, and so on -- are not ethnic Persians. Some

there are no Hazaras in Iran. they are a group found in Afghanistan.

There are several hundred thousand Hazaras in Iran. Although some of them fled there after the Taleban came into power, others have been there for generations. Most immigrated as refugees during Abdur Rahman's reign (1880-1903). They mostly live in the city of Mashhad.

John.

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