"ethnic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The vast majority of the Mashhadi people are ethnic Persians who form over 95% of the city's population.
- Zoroastrians mainly are ethnic Persians and are concentrated in the cities of Tehran, Kerman, and Yazd.
- Shia Muslims, especially ethnic Persians, were given preferential state treatment, economic and occupational opportunities, and dominated the government.
- The northern part of the province is called Sistan and is inhabited by ethnic Persians that speak a dialect of Persian called Sistani.
- The southern half including the capital of the province, Gorgan is inhabited by ethnic Persians and they have adopted the Tehrani dialect of Persian.
- Consequently, they were slowly able to take on administrative jobs in areas which had hitherto been the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Persians.
- Iranian Kuwaitis are of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the predominant being ethnic Persians (including Lurs), Azeris, Kurds and Balochis.
- The 'elite' contingents of the Persian infantry seem to have been the ethnic Persians, Medians, Cissians and the Saka.
- Not all this literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included.
- Many famous Arabic writers were ethnic Persians and others (e.g. Harun Al-Rashid) were of mixed ancestry.
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