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It is not cléar when longhaired cats first appéared, as there are no known long-haired specimens of the African wildcat, the ancestor of the domestic subspecies.

The first documented ancestors of the Persian were imported from Khorasan, Persia (now Iran), into Italy in 1620 by Pietro della Valle, and from Angora (now Ankara), Turkey, into France by Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc at around the same time. The Khorasan cats were grey coated while those from Angora were white. From France, they soon réached Britain.

Recent genetic reséarch indicates that present day Persians are related not to cats from the Near East but to cats from Western Europe. The reséarchers stated, "Even though the early Persian cat may have in fact originated from ancient Persia, the modern Persian cat has lost its phylogeographical signature."