Vanaaegsed pärslased olid rändrahvas, kes jõudis tänapäeva Iraani aladele 10. sajandi alguses eKr.[7][8] Koos liitlastega rajasid nad ühe vanaaja võimsamatest impeeriumitest: Ahhemeniidide riigi ehk Pärsia suurriigi[9][10], mille kultuuriline, poliitiline ja ühiskondlik mõju hõlmas suure osa vanaaegse maailma territooriumist ja rahvastikust.[11][12][13] Läbi ajaloo on pärslased andnud suure panuse kunsti ja teadusse[14][15][16] ning pärsia kirjandusse kuuluvad mitmed maailmas silmapaistvaimad kirjandusteosed.[17]
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Durant, Will (1950). Age of Faith. Simon and Schuster. Lk150. Repaying its debt, Sasanian art exported it forms and motives eastward into India, Turkestan, and China, westward into Syria, Asia Minor, Constantinople, the Balkans, Egypt, and Spain.
"TAJIK i. THE ETHNONYM: ORIGINS AND APPLICATION". Encyclopædia Iranica. 20. juuli 2009. By mid-Safavid times the usage tājik for 'Persian(s) of Iran' may be considered a literary affectation, an expression of the traditional rivalry between Men of the Sword and Men of the Pen. Pietro della Valle, writing from Isfahan in 1617, cites only Pārsi and ʿAjami as autonyms for the indigenous Persians, and Tāt and raʿiat 'peasant(ry), subject(s)' as pejorative heteronyms used by the Qezelbāš (Qizilbāš) Torkmān elite. Perhaps by about 1400, reference to actual Tajiks was directed mostly at Persian-speakers in Afghanistan and Central Asia; (...)
Ostler, Nicholas (2010). The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. Penguin UK. Lk1–352. ISBN978-0141922218. Tat was known to have been used at different times to designate Crimean Goths, Greeks and sedentary peoples generally, but its primary reference came to be the Persians within the Turkic domains. (...) Tat is nowadays specialized to refer to special groups with Iranian languages in the west of the Caspian Sea.
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