Persians

Newroz predates apparence of persians by millinea; it is celebrated by the Kurds, the Afghans, the Tajicks and the Persians.

Obama, Peres and Colbert on the Persian New Year - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Persians_ the Chorus salutes Atossa in terms every one of which emphasizes this point: "O queen, supreme of Persia's deep-waisted matrons, aged mother of Xerxes, hail to thee! spouse to Darius, consort of the Persians, god and mother of a god thou art," while

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

The points in which the Spartans mock the Athenians, other Greeks and the Persians is not a command to be Spartan, but rather how Spartans would actually act.

300, 7000, Whatever 2007

The tribes that settled in the south became known as the Persians; while those that took possession of the mountain regions of the northwest were called Medes.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

One of the soldiers held a handkerchief to his mouth, as if indicating the loss of a tooth, and all had their shirts and inner vests torn open at the neck, which among Persians is an unfailing sign of woe, as among the Israelites of old.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

Constantinople by the prudence, rather than clemency, of Justinian; and he commanded Dagisteus, with seven thousand Romans, and one thousand of the Zani, * to expel the Persians from the coast of the Euxine.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The story of the seven Persians is told in the third book of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

4 As the lineal heir of the monarchy, he asserted his right to the throne, and challenged the noble task of delivering the Persians from the oppression under which they groaned above five centuries since the death of Darius.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

171 The schism of the Persians is explained by all our travellers of the last century, especially in the iid and ivth volumes of their master, Chardin.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

In the days of the young Cyrus the Great, the Persians were a minor subject people, a band of highland warriors who had swept in from the lands to the north to live on the edge of civilization.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011