Topic: identity (2)

• PeopleThe Elamites

  The Elamites were the ancient people of south-western Iran, holders of the lowland plain of Khuzistan around Susa and of the highland valleys of Fārs, whose civilisation was already some two thousand years old when Cyrus rose. Within the Achaemenid story they are the heartland's other people: the…

• PeopleThe Persians

  The Persians (Old Persian Pārsa) were the ruling people of the Achaemenid Empire: the Iranian-speaking ethnos of the Fārs highland from which the dynasty sprang, whose aristocracy dominated imperial command and the great satrapies from the Indus to the Aegean, and whose name the subject world used…