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The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group that comprise the speakers of Iranian languages.
Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia in the mid 2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid 1st millennium BC, the territory of the Iranian peoples stretched across the Iranian Plateau and the entire Eurasian Steppe from the Great Hungarian Plain in the west to the Ordos Plateau in the east. The Western Iranian Persian Empires came to dominate much of the ancient world at this time, leaving an important cultural legacy, while the Eastern Iranian nomads of the steppe played a decisive role in the development of Eurasian nomadism and the Silk Route. Ancient Iranian peoples include the Alans, Bactrians, Dahae, Massagetae, Medes, Khwarezmians, Parthians, Saka, Sarmatians, Scythians, Sogdians and other peoples of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Iranian Plateau.
Iranians may refer to:
Iranian is of, from, or related to the nation of Iran (Persia).
Persian may refer to:
Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.
In modern contexts, all definitions of Central Asia include these five republics of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan (pop. 17 million), Kyrgyzstan (5.7 million), Tajikistan (8.0 million), Turkmenistan (5.2 million), and Uzbekistan (30 million), for a total population of about 66 million as of 2013–2014. Afghanistan (pop. 31.1 million) is also sometimes included.
Various definitions of Central Asia's exact composition exist, and not one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, the region does have some important overall characteristics. For one, Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. As a result, it has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, Western Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.
In search of the Zoroastrians an ancient people who have tended a holy flame for the last 2500 years. I do not condone any insults towards the Islamic religion or any other.
SOGDIANA, now known as Tajikistan, is probably one of the most ancient regions inhabited by Iranian Peoples. It was part of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex in the Bronze Age, and is a candidate to be the cradle of Proto-Indo-Iranian and/or Proto-Iranian culture. Sogdiana, an Iranian-speaking region in Central Asia, stretches from the rivers Āmu Daryā in the south to the Syr Daryā in the north, with its heart in the valleys of the Zarafšān and the Kaška Daryā. Pre-Achaemenid Sogdiana is recalled in the Younger Avesta (chap. 1 of the Vidēvdād, q.v.) under the name Gava and said to be inhabited by the Sogdians. Cyrus the Great (see CYRUS iii) conquered Sogdiana in about 540 BCE. He advanced as far as the Syr Darya, where he established the town of Kyrèschata (Cyropolis), the fart...
Nowhere in the world outside the Greater Iran have the Iranian People reached prominence as they have in India. The history of Iranic and Indic peoples is very much intertwined. As they both are the descendants of Indo-Iranian people who separated some 5000 years ago. Subsequent Iranian Empires have successively controlled north-west and north India through the history. Starting with the Persian Achaemenid Empire, followed by Bactrian Empire, Parthian Empire, Kushan Empire, Indo-Saka Empire, Indo-Parthian Empire, Hephthalites Empire, Sassanid Empire....etc,etc. This has caused a continuous stream of Iranic people penetrating India and settling in different parts of this land. Many people in India can claim and do claim descendants from Iranian Tribes. For example Jat, Gujjar and Rajput ar...
While a categorization of a "Persian" ethnic group persists in the West, Persians have generally been a pan-national group often comprising regional people who often refer to themselves as 'Persians' and have also often used the term "Iranian". Old Persians were part of the wider Ariya (Iranian nation). Until the Parthian era, Iranian identity had an ethnic, linguistic, and religious value, however it did not yet have a political import. In the 1st century BCE, Strabo (c. 64 BCE--24 CE) would note a relationship between the various Iranian peoples and their languages: "[From] beyond the Indus [...] Ariana is extended so as to include some part of Persia, Media, and the north of Bactria and Sogdiana; for these nations speak nearly the same language." (Geography, 15.2.1--15.2.8. He mention...
Western Part of Xinjiang was within Sassanid Empires borders, around 450 A.D. and the inhabitants of these regions were referred to as "Cina-deva-gotra" (from Sanskrit). The name literally means "descendant of Han and the sun-god" The Tokharians (Yuezhi) and The Saka (Scythians) were the first group of People who settled Tarim-Basin. They were both indo-european people. We know of the language of the Saka via the kingdoms of Khotan and Tumxuk in what is now Xinjiang, China. The language and dialects are classified as a part of the Middle Iranian family of languages.Other languages in this group are Khwarezmian(Chorasmian), Sogdian and Bactrian. Originally, these languages would have all derived from the language of the Zoroastrian scriptures, the Avesta. According to Litvinsky and Voroby...
Real Sarmatians: Very few individuals are even aware of the existence of these forgotten northern Iranians. In the west, the Sarmatians are incorrectly assumed to be another group of "Eastern Germans" (Ostrogoths). Some western authors have recently attempted to avoid referring to the Saramatians Iranian origins. Nevertheless History cannot be changed and the descendents of the Saramatians now live in a region called Ossetia (between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia). The Ossetians speak an Iranian language related to the Farsi of Iran. The Ossetians descend from Iranian tribes of Eurasia, namely Alans, Sarmatians and Scythians. They became Christians during the early Middle Ages under Georgian and Byzantine influence. In the 8th century a consolidated Alan kingdom, re...
Mongoloid Caucasoids of Mesolithic - Tatiana Chikisheva, 2010: As soon as you touch physical anthropology, odontology, genetics, osteology, lactose tolerance, blood groups, and other mundane details, traits intolerable for patriots of Indo-Iranism (or Arianism) come to light, and there are no intelligible answers from the Arian department, whose only arguments are name-calling and accusations in Pan-Turkism. Worse yet, self-aggrandizing theory was mostly forged by intellectually masculine “Arian” males, who dreamt up noble riders as their ancestors, but not in a small degree is debunked by contemned females unobtrusively doing their daily work on mundane details, the ickiest offence of which is to find that noble Arian riders had flattish faces, squintish eyes, and Mongoloid admixture. ht...
All rights reserved. Video created by me, Derya Tetwan Kurd, portrays Iranians from various ethnic group in and out of today Iran's boarders. The images include traditional dresses in Kurdistan, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Tajikistan and Baluchistan. The people living in those lands are mainly Iranians following Iranian language, culture, and tradition. The first song is in Kurdish, the second music is Azeri and the third song is Baluchi and they are all a part of Iranian languages alongside with Persian and many other langauges. TAGS: Iranian people, Iranian culture, Iranian Tradition, Iranian history, Kurdish people, Kurdish culture, Kurdish Tradition, Kurdish history, Azeri people, Azeri culture, Azeri Tradition, Azeri history, Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani culture, Aze...
Multicultural Iran. Music: Bijan Mortezavi - Sabzezaar. Persians are on the most of photos: 0:14, 0:25, 1:33, 1:53, 0:47, 2:09, 2:21, 2:28, 2:33, 4:21, 4:32, 5:11, 6:31, 6:53, 7:01, 7:11, 7:14, 7:57, 9:09, 9:15, 9:49, 11:12, 11:42, 12:16, 12:20, 12:55, 13:08, 13:46, 14:35), Persian Zoroastrians (5:17). Some photos are of Iranian Turkmen (at 0:01, 0:09, 1:15, 2:04, 3:48, 4:01, 4:48, 5:02, 11:55, 14:04, 15:04, 15:10, 15:33) from Khorasan province, where 1,3 millions Turkmen live. Other photos are of Persian Gilakis or of Gilaki culture (1:38, 1:58, 3:23, 3:43, 4:06, 7:18, 7:35, 7:53, 10:22, 10:28, 10:34, 13:14, 14:30) - Persian ethnic subgroup from Gilan province next to Caspian Sea, Persian or Gilaki girl at 0:31, Persian Mazanderanis (13:19, 10:05), Lourish Bakhtiaris (7:25, 13:30) central...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes The Medes (Old Persian Māda-, Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι,) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media (Northwestern Iran) and who spoke the Median language. Their arrival in the region is associated with the first wave of migrating Iranic Aryan tribes into Ancient Iran from around 1000 BC (the Bronze Age collapse) through to around 900 BC. This period of migration coincided with a power vacuum in the Near East with the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1020 BC), which had dominated northwestern Iran and eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, going into a comparative decline. This allowed new peoples to pass through and settle. In addition Elam, the dominant power in Ancient Iran, was suffering a period of severe weakness, as was Babylonia to th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes The Medes (Old Persian Māda-, Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι,) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media (Northwestern Iran) and who spoke the Median language. Their arrival in the region is associated with the first wave of migrating Iranic Aryan tribes into Ancient Iran from around 1000 BC (the Bronze Age collapse) through to around 900 BC. This period of migration coincided with a power vacuum in the Near East with the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1020 BC), which had dominated northwestern Iran and eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, going into a comparative decline. This allowed new peoples to pass through and settle. In addition Elam, the dominant power in Ancient Iran, was suffering a period of severe weakness, as was Babylonia to th...
Several reconstructions in full from ancient fragments. The Book of the Giants was published in not less than six or seven languages. From the original Syriac the Greek and Middle Persian versions were made. Also known as The Book of Giants or the Book Of Og (Vir-Og-dad) it's about the Giborim, the sons of the Nephilim, the Fallen Angels, it features a full summary of the interesting "Dream Sequences" (parables) of the giants, via the Interpretations of several professional theologians. Reading from The Book of Giants found in the Qumran Caves, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Ka-Wan of the Manichaeans, we'll reconstruct the full story, and examine several key aspects. GIANTS AT THE NORTH POLE /EDEN? The book of giants, or known as the book of Og (ogres), states that 32 or 36 towns were bu...
New Special Link About Iranian Player's Talking With Iranian People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNB_Vfxgs4&feature;=share Persian People The Persian people are the people of Iran who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects. Their origins are traced to the ancient Iranian peoples, themselves part of the greater Indo-European peoples. The term Persian translates to "from Persis" which is a region north of the Persian Gulf located in Pars, Iran. It was from this region that Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid empire, united all other Iranian empires (such as the Medes), and expanded the Persian cultural and social influences by incorporating the Babylonian empire, and the Lydian empire. Although not the first Iranian empire, the Achaemenid empire i...
In late 2013 I had the chance to travel through Iran for around 5 weeks, a great possibility to see more of a country that captivated my attention in previous years. Mostly making headlines for all the wrong reasons, there had to be more to a country with such a long and diverse history. This travel video is a modest attempt to show some of the diversity that exists in Iran. It was edited in early 2014 and should be seen in a different (political) context than today's. The economic sanctions, that have recently been eased, were still very much in place. Many people were struggling to make a living, yet there always seemed a way to make things happen. The openess and welcoming attitude of the Iranian people were probably the things that most impressed me. Walking the ancient bazaars was a...
The Kurds also the Kurdish people are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of eastern and southeastern Turkey , western Iran , northern Iraq , and northern Syria .The Kurds are culturally and linguistically closely related to the Iranian peoples and, as a result, are often themselves classified as an Iranian people.Many Kurds consider themselves descended from the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, and even use a calendar dating from 612 B.C., when the Assyrian capital of Nineveh was conquered by the Medes.The claimed Median descent is reflected in the words of the Kurdish national anthem: "We are the children of the Medes and Kai Khosrow." The Kurdish languages form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian languages. ---Image-Copyri...
What Is Afghanistan,https://goo.gl/r1938O Excavations of prehistoric sites by Louis Dupree and others suggest that humans were living in what is now Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago, and that farming communities in the area were among the earliest in the world. An important site of early historical activities, many believe that Afghanistan compares to Egypt in terms of the historical value of its archaeological sites.[11][12] The country sits at a unique nexus point where numerous civilizations have interacted and often fought. It has been home to various peoples through the ages, among them the ancient Iranian peoples who established the dominant role of Indo-Iranian languages in the region. At multiple points, the land has been incorporated within large regional empires, among the...
What is so magical about the ancient Iranian cultural hub of Isfahan is it's people. Watch the video and learn how the smart, thoughtful and funny the Iranian people are. They are not to be feared but embraced as our friends and partners in all things business, culture and innovation. For more on Iran and other videos please visit http://corcoranproductions.com/isfahan-iran-a-36-hour-love-story/
Persian mythology are traditional tales and stories of ancient origin, all involving extraordinary or supernatural beings. Drawn from the legendary past of Iran, they reflect the attitudes of the society to which they first belonged - attitudes towards the confrontation of good and evil, the actions of the gods, yazats, and the exploits of heroes and fabulous creatures. Myths play a crucial part in Iranian culture and our understanding of them is increased when we consider them within the context of Iranian history. For this purpose we must ignore modern political boundaries and look at historical developments in the Greater Iran, a vast area covering the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Central Asia, beyond the frontiers of present-day Iran. The geography of this region, with its high...
Excavations of prehistoric sites by Louis Dupree and others suggest that humans were living in what is now Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago, and that farming communities in the area were among the earliest in the world. An important site of early historical activities, many believe that Afghanistan compares to Egypt in terms of the historical value of its archaeological sites. The country sits at a unique nexus point where numerous civilizations have interacted and often fought. It has been home to various peoples through the ages, among them the ancient Iranian peoples who established the dominant role of Indo-Iranian languages in the region. At multiple points, the land has been incorporated within large regional empires, among them the Achaemenid Empire, the Macedonian Empire, the...
GIANTS: The Book Of Giants Several reconstructions in full from ancient fragments. The Book of the Giants was published in not less than six or seven languages. From the original Syriac the Greek and Middle Persian versions were made. Also known as The Book of Giants or the Book Of Og (Vir-Og-dad) it's about the Giborim, the sons of the Nephilim, the Fallen Angels, it features a full summary of the interesting "Dream Sequences" (parables) of the giants, via the Interpretations of several professional theologians. Reading from The Book of Giants found in the Qumran Caves, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Ka-Wan of the Manichaeans, we'll reconstruct the full story, and examine several key aspects. GIANTS AT THE NORTH POLE /EDEN? The book of giants, or known as the book of Og (ogres), states t...
Zanzibar or "Coast of Blacks" is a semi-autonomous island in Tanzania. Some people from Shiraz immigrated to this island in 10 century AD. They traveled on sailboats. Ali Ibn Hasan was the first Iranian ruler who established a government in Tanzania. Zanzibar is considered as one of the oldest regions of East Africa and is home to people of different colors and religions. More than 90 percent of some 1 million population of Zanzibar are Muslim. Ali Ibn Hasan went to Zanzibar to begin trading with Eastern Africa. Shirazi people are involved in different religious activities in Zanzibar, including mourning ceremony of Imam Hussein (AS), third Shia imam. They built mosques and invited people of the island to Shi'ism. The history of an ancient Persian bath dates back to 12 A.H. It was built ...
Speaker: Dr. Harold Rhode Date: October 21, 2010 www.jcpa.org - Israel and the United States have played directly into the hands of radical-Islamist regime in Iran since the fall of the Shah, says Dr. Harold Rhode, an Iran expert. In this briefing, Dr. Harold Rhode provides an analysis that identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most importantly, he identifies critical elements of Iranian culture that have been systematically ignored by policymakers for decades. It is a precise understanding of these cultural cues that should guide policy objectives toward the Iranian government. View the full article here: http://jcpa.org/article/the-sources-of-iranian-negotiating-behavior-2/
Old Testament - Genesis 10:1-32 - (The Nations) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim Genesis 10:1-32 - The Nations - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #291: - Original Air Date: 11/06/2011 A.D. PASTOR TIM's NOTES: Genesis 10:1-32 “The Nations” 1. The PLAN that God used to separate the son of Noah. Vs. 5,20,31 1a. The PLAN included a social order based on the family 1b. The PLAN included a social order based on language. 1c. The PLAN included a social order based on geological borders. 1d. The PLAN included a social order based on nations Rom 13:1-3 2. The PROPHECY concerning the enlargement of Japheth. Vs. 1-5 Gen 9:27 2a. Japheth has seven sons. 1) Gomer- They become the Indo-European...
Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent. The region, along with Russia, is also part of 'the great pivot' as per the Heartland Theory of Halford Mackinder, which says that the power which controls the Central Asia –richly endowed with natural resources– shall ultimately be the Empire of the world. In modern contexts, all definitions of Central Asia include these five republics ...
Enter the hidden world of Iran with cinematographer Buddy Hatton as he captures the fascination of modern Iran, a country as old as history itself with spectacular and distinctive architectural marvels. Visit magnificent monuments of two great empires of the ancient world and experience the Iranian people -- some of the most amiable, hospitable, and generous group you'll ever meet. Take this incredible journey into today's Iran that dispels many of the stereotypes of Iranian people that resulted from mainstream media portrayals. Visit colorful, bustling bazaars, glorious mosques, majestic palaces, Persian gardens, shimmering deserts, lofty snow-capped peaks, and Persepolis -- the home of a royal complex built in 518 BCE -- the most famous site in Iran along with several other UNESCO World...