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4999: 5656:: is the most common Hg in Iran (~23%); almost exclusively represented by J2a-M410 subclade (93%), the other major sub-clade being J2b-M12. Apart from Iranians, J2 is common in northern Arabs, Mediterranean and Balkan peoples (Croats, Serbs, Greeks, Bosniaks, Albanians, Italians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Turks), in the Caucasus (Armenians, Georgians, Chechens, Ingush, northeastern Turkey, north/northwestern Iran, Kurds, Persians); whilst its frequency drops suddenly beyond Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. In Europe, J2a is more common in southern Greece and southern Italy; whilst J2b (J2-M12) is more common in Thessaly, Macedonia and central – northern Italy. Thus J2a and its subgroups within it have a wide distribution from Italy to India, whilst J2b is mostly confined to the Balkans and Italy, being rare even in Turkey. Whilst closely linked with Anatolia and the Levant; and putative agricultural expansions, the distribution of the various sub-clades of J2 likely represents a number of migrational histories which require further elucidation. 3594: 9196:(Fig 2 including "Old World" populations only; see S2 Fig for all 1000G populations), CIC Iranians closely clustered with Europeans, while Iranian Turkmen showed similar yet distinct degrees of admixture compared to other South Asians. A local comparison corroborated the distinct genetic diversity of CIC Iranians relative to other geographically close populations (Fig 3 and S3 Fig). Still, genetic substructure was much smaller among Iranian groups than in relation to any of the 1000G populations, supporting the view that the CIC groups form a distinct genetic entity, despite internal heterogeneity. European (FST~0.0105–0.0294), South Asians (FST~0.0141–0.0338), but also some Latin American populations (Puerto Ricans: FST~0.0153–0.0228; Colombians: FST~0.0170–0.0261) were closest to Iranians, whereas Sub-Saharan Africans and admixed Afro-Americans (FST~0.0764–0.1424) as well as East Asians (FST ~ 0.0645–0.1055) showed large degrees of differentiation with Iranians. 5621: 6960:
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5665:: is common in Iran, more so in the east and south rather than the west and north; suggesting a migration toward the south to India then a secondary westward spread across Iran. Whilst the Grongi and Regueiro studies did not define exactly which sub-clades Iranian R1a haplogrouops belong to, private genealogy tests suggest that they virtually all belong to "Eurasian" R1a-Z93. Indeed, population studies of neighbouring Indian groups found that they all were in R1a-Z93. This implies that R1a in Iran did not descend from "European" R1a, or vice versa. Rather, both groups are collateral, brother branches which descend from a parental group hypothesized to have initially lived somewhere between central Asia and Eastern Europe. 5522: 3972: 5582: 2484: 3617: 3055: 3602: 5361:(Turco-Mongols) and Turkic invaders mixed with the local indigenous Turkic and Iranian populations. for example Qara'unas settled in what is now Afghanistan and mixed with the local populations. A second wave of mostly Chagatai Turco-Mongols came from Central Asia, associated with the Ilkhanate and the Timurids, all of whom settled in Hazarajat and mixed with the local populations. Phenotype can vary, with some noting that certain Hazaras may resemble peoples native to the Iranian plateau. 2908: 229: 2929: 5079: 5179: 3940: 3439: 6026:, p. 348: "From the first millennium b.c., we have abundant historical, archaeological and linguistic sources for the location of the territory inhabited by the Iranian peoples. In this period the territory of the northern Iranians, they being equestrian nomads, extended over the whole zone of the steppes and the wooded steppes and even the semi-deserts from the Great Hungarian Plain to the Ordos in northern China." 3996: 5571: 3173: 5168: 5214:, which began to spread within the region since the time of the Sasanian Empire. The language-shift from Middle Iranian to Turkic and New Persian was predominantly the result of an "elite dominance" process. Moreover, various Turkic-speaking ethnic groups of the Iranian Plateau are often conversant also in an Iranian language and embrace Iranian culture to the extent that the term 2999:; and a migration south-eastward of the Vedic people, over the Hindu Kush into northern India. The Indo-Aryans split off around 1800–1600 BC from the Iranians, whereafter they were defeated and split into two groups by the Iranians, who dominated the Central Eurasian steppe zone and "chased to the extremities of Central Eurasia." One group were the Indo-Aryans who founded the 9598:
Farjadian, Shirin; Kushniarevich, Alena; Herrera, Rene J; Grugni, Viola; Battaglia, Vincenza; Nici, Carmela; Crobu, Francesca; Karachanak, Sena; Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar; Houshmand, Massoud; Sanati, Mohammad H; Toncheva, Draga; Lisa, Antonella; Semino, Ornella; Chiaroni, Jacques; Cristofaro, Julie Di; Villems, Richard; Kivisild, Toomas; Underhill, Peter A (December 2012).
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Alevi). The latter were to keep the name 'Turkmen' for a long time: from the thirteenth century onwards they 'Turkised' the Iranian populations of Azerbaijan (who spoke west Iranian languages such as Tat, which is still found in residual forms), thus creating a new identity based on Shiism and the use of Turkish. These are the people today known as Azeris.
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Alevi). The latter were to keep the name 'Turkmen' for a long time: from the 13th century onwards they 'Turkised' the Iranian populations of Azerbaijan (who spoke west Iranian languages such as Tat, which is still found in residual forms), thus creating a new identity based on Shiism and the use of Turkish. These are the people today known as Azeris.
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genetically overlap with Iranian peoples. The genetic substructure of Iranians is low and homogeneous, compared with other "1000G" populations. Europeans, and certain South Asians (specifically the Parsi minority) showed the highest affinity with Iranians, while Sub-Saharan Africans and East Asians showed the highest differentiation with Iranians.
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Easterners. The authors concluded that the Iranian gene pool has been an important source for the Middle Eastern and Eurasian Y chromosome diversity, and the results suggest that there was already rather high Y chromosome diversity during the Neolithic period, placing Iranian populations in between Europeans, Middle Easterners and South Asians.
4267: 3254:(2100–1800), formerly included within the Andronovo culture, is now considered separately, but regarded as its predecessor, and accepted as part of the wider Andronovo horizon. At least four sub-cultures of the Andronovo horizon have been distinguished, during which the culture expands towards the south and the east: 9647:
Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel E.; Ashrafian Bonab, Maziar; Youhanna, Sonia C.; Soria-Hernanz, David F.; Martínez-Cruz, Begoña; Douaihy, Bouchra; Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella; Rafatpanah, Hoshang; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Whale, John; Balanovsky, Oleg; Wells, R. Spencer; Comas, David; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua,
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A rough estimate in this edition gives populations of 14.3 million in Turkey, 8.2 million in Iran, about 5.6 to 7.4 million in Iraq, and less than 2 million in Syria, which adds up to approximately 28–30 million Kurds in Kurdistan or in adjacent regions. The CIA estimates are as of August 2015 –
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Recent population genomic studies found that the genetic structure of Iranian peoples formed already about 5,000 years ago and show high continuity since then, suggesting that they were largely unaffected by migration events from outside groups. Genetically speaking, Iranian peoples generally cluster
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Cinnioğlu, Cengiz; King, Roy; Kivisild, Toomas; Kalfoğlu, Ersi; Atasoy, Sevil; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Lillie, Anita S.; Roseman, Charles C.; Lin, Alice A.; Prince, Kristina; Oefner, Peter J.; Shen, Peidong; Semino, Ornella; Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca; Underhill, Peter A. (1 January 2004). "Excavating
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As the Ottoman Turks learned Persian, the language and the culture it carried seeped not only into their court and imperial institutions but also into their vernacular language and culture. The appropriation of Persian, both as a second language and as a language to be steeped together with Turkish,
5674:: is widespread from Ireland to Iran, and is common in highland West Asian populations such as Armenians, Turks and Iranians – with an average frequency of 8.5%. Iranian R1b belongs to the L-23 subclade, which is an older than the derivative subclade (R1b-M412) which is most common in western Europe. 5050:
Like other Indo-Europeans, the early Iranians practiced ritual sacrifice, had a social hierarchy consisting of warriors, clerics, and farmers, and recounted their deeds through poetic hymns and sagas. Various common traits can be discerned among the Iranian peoples. For instance, the social event of
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Myres, Natalie M; Rootsi, Siiri; Lin, Alice A; Järve, Mari; King, Roy J; Kutuev, Ildus; Cabrera, Vicente M; Khusnutdinova, Elza K; Pshenichnov, Andrey; Yunusbayev, Bayazit; Balanovsky, Oleg; Balanovska, Elena; Rudan, Pavao; Baldovic, Marian; Herrera, Rene J; Chiaroni, Jacques; Di Cristofaro, Julie;
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Sengupta, Sanghamitra; Zhivotovsky, Lev A.; King, Roy; Mehdi, S. Q.; Edmonds, Christopher A.; Chow, Cheryl-Emiliane T.; Lin, Alice A.; Mitra, Mitashree; Sil, Samir K.; Ramesh, A.; Usha Rani, M. V.; Thakur, Chitra M.; Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca; Majumder, Partha P.; Underhill, Peter A. (February 2006).
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The extensive contact between these Scytho-Sarmatian Iranian tribes in Eastern Europe and the (Early) Slavs included religion. After Slavic and Baltic languages diverged the Early Slavs interacted with Iranian peoples and merged elements of Iranian spirituality into their beliefs. For example, both
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Seven groups (Iranian Arabs, Azeris, Gilaks, Kurds, Mazanderanis, Lurs and Persians) strongly overlapped in their overall autosomal diversity in an MDS analysis (Fig 1B), suggesting the existence of a Central Iranian Cluster (CIC), notably also including Iranian Arabs and Azeris. On a global scale
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Allentoft, Morten E.; Sikora, Martin; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Rasmussen, Simon; Rasmussen, Morten; Stenderup, Jesper; Damgaard, Peter B.; Schroeder, Hannes; Ahlström, Torbjörn; Vinner, Lasse; Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo; Margaryan, Ashot; Higham, Tom; Chivall, David; Lynnerup, Niels; Harvig, Lise; Baron,
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Rootsi, Siiri; Myres, Natalie M; Lin, Alice A; Järve, Mari; King, Roy J; Kutuev, Ildus; Cabrera, Vicente M; Khusnutdinova, Elza K; Varendi, Kärt; Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Behar, Doron M; Khusainova, Rita; Balanovsky, Oleg; Balanovska, Elena; Rudan, Pavao; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir;
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James Minahan, "One Europe, Many Nations", Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. pg 518: "The Ossetians, calling themselves Iristi and their homeland Iryston are the most northerly Iranian people. ... They are descended from a division of Sarmatians, the Alans who were pushed out of the
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The mass of the Oghuz who crossed the Amu Darya towards the west left the Iranian Plateau, which remained Persian, and established themselves more to the west, in Anatolia. Here they divided into Ottomans, who were Sunni and settled, and Turkmens, who were nomads and in part Shiite (or, rather,
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A 2012 study by Grugni et al. analyzed the haplogroups of 15 different ethnic groups from Iran. They found that about 31.4% belong to J, 29.1% belong to R, 11.8% belong to G, and 9.2% belong to E. They found that Iranian ethnic groups display high haplogroup diversity, compared to other Middle
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While the Iranian tribes of the south are better known through their texts and modern counterparts, the tribes which remained largely in the vast Eurasian expanse are known through the references made to them by the ancient Greeks, Persians, Chinese, and Indo-Aryans as well as by archaeological
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The mass of the Oghuz who crossed the Amu Darya towards the west left the Iranian Plateau, which remained Persian and established themselves more to the west, in Anatolia. Here they divided into Ottomans, who were Sunni and settled, and Turkmens, who were nomads and in part Shiite (or, rather,
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cluster tightly together, forming a single cluster known as the CIC (Central Iranian cluster). Compared with worldwide populations, Iranians (CIC) cluster in the center of the wider West-Eurasian cluster, close to Europeans, Middle Easterners, and South-Central Asians. Iranian Arabs and Azeris
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tribes were assimilated with the numerically superior Slavs, passing on their name. Iranian-speaking peoples did inhabit parts of the Balkans in late classical times, and would have been encountered by the Slavs. An archaeogenetic IBD study found that the Slavs make a specific and recognisable
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during different periods of the empire, the native Old Iranian sources provide no indication of Greek linguistic evidence. However, there is plenty of evidence (in addition to the accounts of Herodotus) that Greeks, apart from being deployed and employed in the core regions of the empire, also
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are a Persian-speaking ethnic group native to, and primarily residing in, the mountainous region of Hazarajat, in central Afghanistan. Although the origins of the Hazara people have not been fully reconstructed, genetic analysis of the Hazara indicate partial Mongol ancestry. Invading Mongols
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N. Sims-Williams, "Further notes on the Bactrian inscription of Rabatak, with the Appendix on the name of Kujula Kadphises and VimTatku in Chinese". Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies (Cambridge, September 1995). Part 1: Old and Middle Iranian<Studies, N.
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With numerous artistic, scientific, architectural, and philosophical achievements and numerous kingdoms and empires that bridged much of the civilized world in antiquity, the Iranian peoples were often in close contact with people from various western and eastern parts of the world.
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is an ancient Iranian festival that is still celebrated by nearly all of the Iranian peoples. However, due to their different environmental adaptations through migration, the Iranian peoples embrace some degrees of diversity in dialect, social system, and other aspects of culture.
6124:(...) Ancient accounts link the Amazons with the Scythians and the Sarmatians, who successively dominated the south of Russia for a millennium extending back to the seventh century B.C. The descendants of these peoples were absorbed by the Slavs who came to be known as Russians. 4224:
Early Iranian and Slavic supreme gods were considered givers of wealth, unlike the supreme thunder gods in many other European religions. Also, both Slavs and Iranians had demons –- given names from similar linguistic roots, Daêva (Iranian) and Divŭ (Slavic) –- and a concept of
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Semino, Ornella; Magri, Chiara; Benuzzi, Giorgia; Lin, Alice A.; Al-Zahery, Nadia; Battaglia, Vincenza; Maccioni, Liliana; Triantaphyllidis, Costas; Shen, Peidong; Oefner, Peter J.; Zhivotovsky, Lev A.; King, Roy; Torroni, Antonio; Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca; Underhill, Peter A.;
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A 2024 study by Vallini et al. stated that ancient and modern populations in the Iranian plateau have a similar genetic component to the Ancient West Eurasian lineage which stayed in the 'population hub' (WEC2). But they also display some ancestry from
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Two large – scale papers by Haber (2012) and Di Cristofaro (2013) analyzed populations from Afghanistan, where several Iranian-speaking groups are native. They found that different groups (e.g. Baluch, Hazara, Pashtun) were quite diverse, yet overall:
3777:(although the main capital was located in Babylon) the Achaemenids would rule much of the known ancient world for centuries. This First Persian Empire was equally notable for its successful model of a centralised, bureaucratic administration (through 9254:
Grugni, Viola; Battaglia, Vincenza; Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak; Parolo, Silvia; Al-Zahery, Nadia; Achilli, Alessandro; Olivieri, Anna; Gandini, Francesca; Houshmand, Massoud; Sanati, Mohammad Hossein; Torroni, Antonio; Semino, Ornella (18 July 2012).
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Di Cristofaro, Julie; Pennarun, Erwan; Mazières, Stéphane; Myres, Natalie M.; Lin, Alice A.; Temori, Shah Aga; Metspalu, Mait; Metspalu, Ene; Witzel, Michael; King, Roy J.; Underhill, Peter A.; Villems, Richard; Chiaroni, Jacques (18 October 2013).
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Vallini, Leonardo; Zampieri, Carlo; Shoaee, Mohamed Javad; Bortolini, Eugenio; Marciani, Giulia; Aneli, Serena; Pievani, Telmo; Benazzi, Stefano; Barausse, Alberto; Mezzavilla, Massimo; Petraglia, Michael D.; Pagani, Luca (25 March 2024).
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Grugni, Viola; Battaglia, Vincenza; Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak; Parolo, Silvia; Al-Zahery, Nadia; Achilli, Alessandro; Olivieri, Anna; Gandini, Francesca; Houshmand, Massoud; Sanati, Mohammad Hossein; Torroni, Antonio (18 July 2012).
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Damgaard, Peter de Barros; Marchi, Nina; Rasmussen, Simon; Peyrot, Michaël; Renaud, Gabriel; Korneliussen, Thorfinn; Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor; Pedersen, Mikkel Winther; Goldberg, Amy; Usmanova, Emma; Baimukhanov, Nurbol (May 2018).
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Mehrjoo, Zohreh; Fattahi, Zohreh; Beheshtian, Maryam; Mohseni, Marzieh; Poustchi, Hossein; Ardalani, Fariba; Jalalvand, Khadijeh; Arzhangi, Sanaz; Mohammadi, Zahra; Khoshbakht, Shahrouz; Najafi, Farid (24 September 2019).
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G. Gnoli, "Iranian Identity as a Historical Problem: the Beginnings of a National Awareness under the Achaemenians", in The East and the Meaning of History. International Conference (23–27 November 1992), Roma, 1994, pp.
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that moved east into the region between 2800 and 2600 BC. Several Sintashta towns were built over older Poltavka settlements or close to Poltavka cemeteries, and Poltavka motifs are common on Sintashta pottery. Sintashta
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pp. 4–5. "The wide distribution of the Turkic languages from Northwest China, Mongolia and Siberia in the east to Turkey and Bulgaria in the west implies large-scale migrations out of the homeland in Mongolia.
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During the 1st centuries of the 1st millennium BC, the ancient Persians established themselves in the western portion of the Iranian Plateau and appear to have interacted considerably with the Elamites and
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was a collective definition, denoting peoples who were aware of belonging to the one ethnic stock, speaking a common language, and having a religious tradition that centered on the cult of Ohrmazd.
9320:"Polarity and Temporality of High-Resolution Y-Chromosome Distributions in India Identify Both Indigenous and Exogenous Expansions and Reveal Minor Genetic Influence of Central Asian Pastoralists" 8996:
B. Campbell, Disappearing people? Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities in South and Central Asia in: Barbara Brower, Barbara Rose Johnston (Ed.) International Mountain Society, California, 2007
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MacKenzie D.N. Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum Part. 2., inscription of the Seleucid and Parthian periods of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 2. Parthian, London, P. Lund, Humphries 1976–2001
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Nauta, Ane H. (1972). "Der Lautwandel von a > o and von a > ä in der özbekischen Schriftsprache" [The sound change from a> o and from a> ä in the written Özbek language].
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Pamjav, Horolma; Fehér, Tibor; Németh, Endre; Pádár, Zsolt (December 2012). "Brief communication: New Y-chromosome binary markers improve phylogenetic resolution within haplogroup R1a1".
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Quellen der klassischen Musiktradition Mittelasiens: Die usbekisch-tadshikischen maqom-Zyklen und ihre Beziehung zu anderen regionalen maqam-Traditionen im Vorderen and Mittleren Orient
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In the Dna and Dse, Darius and Xerxes describe themselves as "an Achaemenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, and an Aryan, of Aryan stock". Although Darius the Great called his language
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and ultimately Slavic migrations and invasions. Another group of Alans allied with Goths to defeat the Romans and ultimately settled in what is now called Catalonia (Goth-Alania).
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Millward, James A.; Perdue, Peter C. (2004). "Chapter 2: Political and Cultural History of the Xinjiang Region through the Late Nineteenth Century". In Starr, S. Frederick (ed.).
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evidently lived and worked in the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire, namely Iran. For example, Greeks were part of the various ethnicities that constructed Darius' palace in
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The geographical extent of the culture is vast and difficult to delineate exactly. On its western fringes, it overlaps with the approximately contemporaneous, but distinct,
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Turkey: Kurdish 18%, of 81.6 million; Iran: Kurd 10%, of 81.82 million; Iraq: Kurdish 15–20%, of 37.01 million, Syria: Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%, of 17.01 million.
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and various subclades are frequently found among Middle Easterners, Europeans, northern and eastern African populations. They are present in less than 10% of Iranians.
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show their common Proto-Iranian roots, emphasized in Strabo and Herodotus' description of their languages as very similar to the languages spoken by the Bactrians and
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were the names given to the nomadic and semi-nomadic populations of the area. Still, as of today, modern Uzbeks and Tajiks are known to their Turkic neighbors, the
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across its territories and a large professional army and civil services (inspiring similar systems in later empires), and for emancipation of slaves including the
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Heyer, Evelyne; Balaresque, Patricia; Jobling, Mark A; Quintana-Murci, Lluis; Chaix, Raphaelle; Segurel, Laure; Aldashev, Almaz; Hegay, Tanya (1 September 2009).
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Because of the difficulty of identifying the remains of Sintashta sites beneath those of later settlements, the culture was only recently distinguished from the
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Deep phylogenetic analysis of haplogroup G1 provides estimates of SNP and STR mutation rates on the human Y-chromosome and reveals migrations of Iranic speakers
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are the descendants of the Alano-Sarmatians, and their claims are supported by their Northeast Iranian language, while culturally the Ossetians resemble their
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around 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 entire
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texts from a later period make references to such tribes they were witness of pointing them towards the southeasternmost edges of Central Asia, around the
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Hanks, B.; Linduff, K. (2009). "Late Prehistoric Mining, Metallurgy, and Social Organization in North Central Eurasia". In Hanks, B.; Linduff, K. (eds.).
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Nasidze, Ivan; Quinque, Dominique; Ozturk, Murat; Bendukidze, Nina; Stoneking, Mark (1 July 2005). "MtDNA and Y-chromosome Variation in Kurdish Groups".
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language. Even though the Achaemenids had extensive contacts with the Greeks and vice versa, and had conquered many of the Greek-speaking area's both in
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H. W. Bailey, "Arya" in Encyclopedia Iranica. Excerpt: "ARYA an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.
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have been found in Sintashta burials, and the culture is considered a strong candidate for the origin of the technology, which spread throughout the
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Anthony, D. W. (2009). "The Sintashta Genesis: The Roles of Climate Change, Warfare, and Long-Distance Trade". In Hanks, B.; Linduff, K. (eds.).
6267:(...) Iran means all lands and people where Iranian languages were and are spoken, and where in the past, multi-faceted Iranian cultures existed. 3415:. In the Volga basin, interaction with the Srubna culture was the most intense and prolonged, and Federovo style pottery is found as far west as 9208:
Regueiro, M.; Cadenas, A.M.; Gayden, T.; Underhill, P.A.; Herrera, R.J. (2006). "Iran: Tricontinental Nexus for Y-Chromosome Driven Migration".
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The second wave is interpreted as the Iranian wave, and took place in the third stage of the Indo-European migrations from 800 BC onwards.
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The Sintashta culture emerged from the interaction of two antecedent cultures. Its immediate predecessor in the Ural-Tobol steppe was the
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as their royal centre) beyond their original homeland and had eventually a territory stretching roughly from northeastern Iran to the
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The Andronovo culture's approximate maximal extent, with the formative Sintashta-Petrovka culture (red), the location of the earliest
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Later, during the 2nd millennium AD, the Iranian peoples would play a prominent role during the age of Islamic expansion and empire.
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sect. As ancient tribes and identities changed, so did the Iranian peoples, many of whom assimilated foreign cultures and peoples.
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Inan, Murat Umut (2019). "Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World". In Green, Nile (ed.).
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population, the population is actually higher, nearly 40%, most of whom don't speak Balochi anymore. Many Balochis such as the
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Nowadays, most Iranian people follow Islam (Sunnism, followed by Shi'ism), with minorities following Christianity, Judaism,
4332:) are remnants of the various Scythian-derived tribes from the vast far and wide territory they once dwelled in. The modern 3727:. After the fall of the Assyrian Empire, between 616 BC and 605 BC, a unified Median state was formed, which, together with 7494: 5171: 4453:) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language spoken throughout much of what is today Iran and the 836: 7005: 6324: 8677: 8261: 4364:. A remnant of the Sogdians is found in the Yaghnobi-speaking population in parts of the Zeravshan valley in Tajikistan. 1942: 8360: 7469: 4414:
and others. Ultimately, the various Iranian peoples, including the Persians, Pashtuns, Kurds and Balochis, converted to
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are believed to be the direct descendants of the Alans, as other remnants of the Alans disappeared following Germanic,
3814: 2007: 1964: 895: 8139: 5333:: Contemporary scholars consider modern Uyghurs to be the descendants of, apart from the ancient Uyghurs, the Iranian 3867:) while elsewhere other languages were used. The administrative languages were Elamite in the early period, and later 2991:
The Indo-Iranian migrations took place in two waves. The first wave consisted of the Indo-Aryan migration through the
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gives a more clear description. The languages used are Parthian, Middle Persian, and Greek. In Greek inscription says
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Leonid Vyazov; Gulnaz Sagmanova; Olga Flegontova; Harald Ringbauer; David Reich; Pavel Flegontov (15–16 March 2023).
7932: 7900: 7744: 7674: 7173: 6484: 5981: 2844:. Some inhabitants of Iran are not necessarily ethnic Iranians by virtue of not being speakers of Iranian languages. 2253: 228: 7490: 9062: 5704:(subclade not further analyzed) was the predominant haplogroup, especially amongst Pashtuns, the Baloch and Tajiks. 5298: 5005:, an ancient Iranian annual festival that is still widely celebrated throughout the Iranian Plateau and beyond, in 3833: 1971: 735: 9943:
The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
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Minorsky, V. "Azerbaijan". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; Donzel, E. van; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.).
7163: 5106:, embraced various male and female deities. Fire was regarded as an important and highly sacred element, and also 3222: 2660:
which approximately means "expanse of the Iranians". The homeland varied in its geographic range, the area around
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Zerjal, Tatiana; Wells, R. Spencer; Yuldasheva, Nadira; Ruzibakiev, Ruslan; Tyler-Smith, Chris (September 2002).
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The Sarmatians differed from the Scythians in their veneration of the god of fire rather than god of nature, and
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This article is about the group of Indo-European peoples. For the inhabitants of the modern country of Iran, see
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and adopted aspects of Iranian culture amongst the early Slavs, are all a remnant of this. A connection between
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In the 1st millennium AD, their area of settlement, which was mainly concentrated in the steppes and deserts of
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Iranian languages were and, to a lesser extent, still are spoken in a wide area comprising regions around the
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The following either partially descend from or are sometimes regarded as descendants of the Iranian peoples.
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World
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The Horse, The Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World
9770:"Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians" 9257:"Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians" 6352: 2401: 1260: 763: 574: 569: 564: 459: 5406:". Although previous direct linguistic, historical, or archaeological proof for such a theory is lacking. 3892:, apart from the Greek inscriptions found nearby there, and one short Persepolis tablet written in Greek. 11148: 10523:(1999). "The formation of the Aryan branch of Indo-European". In Blench, Roger; Spriggs, Matthew (eds.). 9092: 8069: 7952:
was encouraged notably by the sultans, the ruling class, and leading members of the mystical communities.
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List of Iranian peoples with the respective groups's core areas of settlements and their estimated sizes
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There are an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers of Iranian languages, the six major groups of
3668:(Persia) to various regions of the Empire, with the modern dialects of Iran, Afghanistan (also known as 9967: 6661:
R.W. Thomson. History of Armenians by Moses Khorenat’si. Harvard University Press, 1978. Pg 118, pg 166
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genetic cluster which "was formed by admixture of a Baltic-related group with East Germanic people and
5247: 3810: 2507:, the gentilic is attested as a self-identifier included in ancient inscriptions and the literature of 915: 873: 473: 8695:
Farjadian, S.; Ghaderi, A. (4 October 2007). "HLA class II similarities in Iranian Kurds and Azeris".
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The Sintashta culture, also known as the Sintashta–Petrovka culture or Sintashta–Arkaim culture, is a
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as the name for the linguistic family of this category (many of which are spoken outside Iran), while
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The Sarmatians: 600 BC-AD 450 (Men-at-Arms) by Richard Brzezinski and Gerry Embleton, 19 August 2002
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Some of the Saka-Scythian tribes in Central Asia would later move further southeast and invade the
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Throughout the 1st millennium AD, the large presence of the Sarmatians who once dominated Ukraine,
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According to Allentoft (2015), the Sintashta culture probably derived from the Corded Ware culture.
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Malyarchuk, B. A.; Derenko, M. V.; Denisova, G. A.; Nassiri, M. R.; Rogaev, E. I. (1 April 2002).
7584: 5613:(2012) have performed large-scale sampling of Y chromosome haplogroups of different ethnic groups 9957: 8539: 7553: 5383:, an ancient Iranian people who once settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern 5379:: Some scholars suggest that the Slavic-speaking Serbs and Croats are descended from the ancient 5154: 4462: 3015: 2693:" (7.62). In Armenian sources, the Parthians, Medes and Persians are collectively referred to as 2249: 2040: 1772: 1499: 609: 604: 594: 238: 148: 110: 7486: 6462:"Arya an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition" 5988:
The Iranians are one of the three major ethno-linguistic groups who define the modern Near East.
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Population genomic PCA, showing the CIC (Central Iranian cluster) among other worldwide samples.
3785:) and a government working to the profit of its subjects, for building infrastructure such as a 9550:"A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western Europe" 8081: 6538: 6345: 5878: 5789:
are members of the ethnic group of the Avesta-reciters themselves, in contradistinction to the
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Dawn of Civilization: Earliest Times to 700 B. C
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Chopra, R. M.,"Indo-Iranian Cultural Relations Through The Ages", Iran Society, Kolkata, 2005.
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From the late 2nd millennium BC to early 1st millennium BC the Iranians had expanded from the
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The "Aryan" Language, Gherardo Gnoli, Instituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Roma, 2002
4654: 4357: 4098:. At their greatest reported extent, around the 1st century AD, these tribes ranged from the 3692: 3511: 2834:
and its various citizens (who are all Iranian by nationality), in the same way that the term
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Kuznetsov, P.F. (September 2006). "The emergence of Bronze Age chariots in eastern Europe".
9650:"Afghanistan's Ethnic Groups Share a Y-Chromosomal Heritage Structured by Historical Events" 9060: 8543: 8321: 5944: 5521: 2804:) at Rabatak, which was discovered in 1993 in an unexcavated site in the Afghan province of 11114: 9849: 9838:"The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal" 9781: 9721: 9661: 9268: 7811: 7515: 6973: 6526: 6070:(...) Indeed, it is now accepted that the Sarmatians merged in with pre-Slavic populations. 5798: 5720: 5677: 5453: 5259: 4944: 4836: 4714: 3971: 3864: 3844: 3798: 3566: 3023: 2957: 2902: 2528: 2520: 2488: 1855: 1820: 1133: 816: 768: 705: 675: 633: 613: 477: 331: 27: 20: 11168: 8413: 7715:
Terek River lowlands and in the Caucasus foothills by invading Huns in the 4th century CE.
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accounting for about 90% of this number. Currently, most of these Iranian peoples live in
4430:. The Iranian peoples would later split along sectarian lines as the Persians adopted the 3903:
who speak a west Iranian language relate an oral tradition regarding their migration from
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on the north; for these speak approximately the same language, with but slight variations.
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
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Bečka, J. "Tajik Literature from the 16th Century to the Present". In Rypka, J. (ed.).
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The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
8883: 8858: 8616: 6497: 5813:(DNa 14–15), in Darius I's inscription at Susa (DSe 13–14), and in the inscription of 5713:, especially in Hazaras (33–40%), in part linked to Mongol expansions into the region. 3895:
The early inhabitants of the Achaemenid Empire appear to have adopted the religion of
3585:(c. 1500 BC – 1100 BC) as a candidate for the development of Eastern Iranian culture. 3085:. It is probably the archaeological manifestation of the Indo-Iranian language group. 11193: 11140: 11130: 11031: 10640: 10615: 10593: 10574: 10559: 10540: 10509: 10494: 10476: 10432: 10404: 10398: 10386: 10346:"An Overview of the Andronovo Culture: Late Bronze Age Indo-Iranians in Central Asia" 10345: 10312: 10295: 10259: 10222: 10191: 10170: 10136: 10083: 10068: 10051: 10033: 10026: 9971: 9946: 9928: 9883: 9865: 9817: 9799: 9749: 9689: 9629: 9579: 9520: 9443: 9385: 9349: 9296: 9225: 9186: 9168: 8977: 8954: 8888: 8839: 8720: 8712: 8708: 8549: 8492: 8387: 8073: 8043: 8012: 8008: 7928: 7896: 7845: 7837: 7740: 7670: 7309: 7263: 7235: 7207: 7169: 7083: 6989: 6707: 6603: 6537:. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 681–683. Archived from 6480: 6293: 6256: 6221: 6165: 6113: 6036: 5977: 5350: 5073: 5040: 5024: 4870: 4593: 4530: 4470: 4317: 4147: 3988: 3860: 3794: 3754: 3740: 3605: 3384: 3350: 3251: 3185: 3167: 3158:. It is now recognised as a separate entity forming part of the 'Andronovo horizon'. 3155: 3049: 2973: 2969: 2941: 2860:
for anything about the country Iran. He uses the same analogue as in differentiating
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A History of Russia by Nicholas Riasanovsky, pp. 11–18, Russia before the Russians,
6637: 5581: 5387:, and that their ethnonyms are of Iranian origin. It is proposed that the Sarmatian 3820:
The Greco-Persian Wars resulted in the Persians being forced to withdraw from their
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by 605 BC. The Medes were subsequently able to establish their Median kingdom (with
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and subclades: most concentrated in the Caucasus, it is present in 10% of Iranians.
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is the name of a language or script (DB 4.89). The other three instances occur in
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components were observed in Turkmen populations with the frequencies of about 20%.
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basis in Anatolia was set already by the predecessors of the Ottomans, namely the
3840:, overthrew the incumbent Persian king, by which the Achaemenid Empire was ended. 2689:, remarks about the Iranian Medes that "Medes were called anciently by all people 10630: 10466: 10422: 10287: 10218: 10130: 9961: 9924: 9794: 9734: 9674: 9281: 9163: 8486: 7890: 7782: 7763: 7702: 7473: 7454: 7382: 7329: 7259: 7231: 7203: 6159: 5964: 5483: 5032: 5019: 4927: 4921: 4808: 4766: 4672: 4542: 4450: 4403: 4348:. Various extinct Iranian peoples existed in the eastern Caucasus, including the 4294: 4278: 4161:, gradually started to diminish mainly due to assimilation and absorption by the 4154: 4047:
It is believed that these Scythians were conquered by their eastern cousins, the
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Kieffer, Charles M. "HAZĀRA" . Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
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A Grammar of Ancient Geography,: Compiled for the Use of King's College School
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A Grammar of Ancient Geography,: Compiled for the Use of King's College School
6703: 4138:). According to authors Arrowsmith, Fellowes and Graves Hansard in their book 11223: 11109: 11062: 11021: 10984: 10854: 10751: 10736: 10607: 10544: 10458: 10418: 10162: 10126: 10094: 9869: 9803: 9172: 8716: 8077: 7886: 7841: 7466: 7056: 6711: 6642: 6108:
Atkinson, Dorothy; Dallin, Alexander; Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky, eds. (1977).
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occurred between the 6th and 10th centuries, when they spread across most of
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within the broader Andronovo horizon, and their homeland with an area of the
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As the name of the language of the Old Persian version of the inscription of
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would be applied. A number of Iranian peoples were also intermixed with the
4426:, thus laying the foundation for the fact that the modern-day Ossetians are 4266: 3616: 715: 11072: 10949: 10882: 10741: 10588:(2008). "Proto-Slavonic". In Comrie, Bernard; Corbett, Greville G. (eds.). 10520: 10394: 10183: 9887: 9821: 9753: 9693: 9633: 9583: 9524: 9447: 9389: 9353: 9300: 9229: 9190: 8958: 8892: 8724: 8040:
The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society
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R. G. Kent. Old Persian. Grammar, texts, lexicon. 2nd ed., New Haven, Conn.
5825:"a Persian, son of a Persian, an Ariya, of Ariya origin." "The phrase with 5555: 5437: 5255: 5199: 5131: 4890: 4644: 4423: 4381: 4244: 4071:. These Iranian-speaking Scythians and Sarmatians dominated large parts of 4060: 3975:
Archaeological cultures c. 750 BC at the start of Eastern-Central Europe's
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are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the
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Due to recent migrations, there are also large communities of speakers of
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and Iranian languages is also furthermore proven by the earliest layer of
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Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals, and Mobility
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Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals, and Mobility
9615: 7520: 6651:. Vol. 742 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 742. 6382: 5821:(XPh 12–13). In these, the two Achaemenid dynasts describe themselves as 5766: 5744: 5575: 5487: 5429: 5342: 5123: 5111: 5017:
Iranian culture is today considered to be centered in what is called the
4900: 4895: 4739: 4518: 4478: 4345: 4309:, were assimilated and/or displaced in Central Asia by the migrations of 4282: 4158: 4115: 4080: 4059:
steppe in the 1st millennium AD. These Sarmatians were also known to the
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Die Arier in den nahöstlichen Quellen des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr.
10018: 9147:"Distinct genetic variation and heterogeneity of the Iranian population" 9069:. Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście. 8456: 7832: 7601: 6985: 4067:
and sent Sarmatian conscripts, as part of Roman legions, as far west as
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The Old Persian and Avestan evidence is confirmed by the Greek sources.
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Villems, Richard; Kivisild, Toomas; Underhill, Peter A (January 2011).
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The Music and Tradition of the Bukharan Shashmaqam in Soviet Uzbekistan
7653: 7301: 6719: 6323:, vol. 2, New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 684–687, 5818: 5586: 5399: 5380: 5028: 5010: 4570: 4562: 4538: 4431: 4302: 4048: 4028:; he describes them as having dwelt in what is today southern European 3884: 3852: 3790: 3704: 3620: 3491: 3487: 3408: 3400: 3388: 3372: 3266: 3201: 3148: 3063: 3030: 2981: 2928: 2600: 2134: 2122: 2114: 2098: 1486: 1400: 1278: 1043: 135: 81: 10118: 9221: 8923:"Genetic diversity and the emergence of ethnic groups in Central Asia" 7115:"Amazons in the Scythia: new finds at the Middle Don, Southern Russia" 6732:
Kümmel, Martin Joachim. "Iranic vs. Iranian." Update of 30 Mar (2018).
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dynasty that ruled much of Sindh and parts of Balochistan during the
5403: 5338: 5281: 5191: 5162: 5142: 5119: 5036: 4885: 4841: 4427: 4333: 4270: 4256: 4126:, corresponded to the western part of greater Scythia (mostly modern 4111: 4075:
for a millennium, and were eventually absorbed and assimilated (e.g.
4041: 4021: 3728: 3696: 3680: 3574: 3503: 3416: 3411:). The northern boundary vaguely corresponds to the beginning of the 3404: 3376: 3340: 3273: 3133: 2985: 2768: 2742: 2680: 2512: 2470: 2233: 2201: 2138: 2126: 1689: 1466: 1458: 1451: 1444: 1430: 1298: 184: 176: 61: 11163: 8920: 7645: 7632:
Cross, S. H. (1946). "Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Slavs".
7293: 7253:"Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe" 6811: 5178: 3920: 3172: 2539:. As is also the case for all other Old Iranian language usage, the 2343: 11203: 10978: 10964: 10775: 10110: 9429: 9335: 8874: 5814: 5806: 5539: 5433: 5277: 5207: 5195: 5006: 4976: 4854: 4700: 4687: 4649: 4629: 4601: 4566: 4534: 4522: 4510: 4454: 4361: 4321: 4306: 4298: 4193: 4169: 4119: 4037: 4008: 3976: 3939: 3916: 3724: 3716: 3649: 3609: 3542: 3318:(1300–1100 BC "final Bronze") in eastern Kazakhstan, contacts with 3306: 2876:. German scholar Martin Kummel also argues the same distinction of 2797: 2772: 2746: 2631: 2604: 2570: 2559: 2492: 2440: 2241: 2213: 2209: 2110: 2094: 1632: 1623: 1514: 1315: 1290: 1194: 685: 261: 194: 172: 85: 69: 10691: 9706: 9034:[Idea about Iranian theory lasts over two hundred years]. 5797:". The word also appears four times in Old Persian: One is in the 5490:. It was believed that the first Baloch came to Sindh during the 5090:, presumed to belong to a temple dedicated to the ancient goddess 3438: 11067: 11011: 10991: 10913: 10803: 9999:
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
9646: 7739:
From Scythia to Camelot by Littleton and Malcor, pp. 40–43,
7533: 7436:
A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity
6690:
Perry, John R. (1998). "Languages and Dialects: Islamic Period".
6144:. Vol. 9–11. Society for Slovene Studies. 1987. p. 36. 5475: 5459: 5441: 5384: 5357: 5330: 5316: 5135: 5091: 4821: 4747: 4743: 4720: 4706: 4696: 4692: 4664: 4582: 4526: 4442: 4438: 4402:
began a conquest of the Iranian Plateau. The Arabs conquered the
4352:, while some Iranian peoples remain in the region, including the 4293:
in Central Asia, and who later become indistinguishable from the
4248: 4177: 4135: 4127: 4095: 4064: 4033: 4025: 4004: 3995: 3758: 3708: 3700: 3534: 3518: 3507: 3476: 3472: 3319: 3208: 3181: 3140:. Sintashta settlements are also remarkable for the intensity of 3129: 3000: 2996: 2840: 2349: 2325: 2205: 2169: 2153: 2106: 2086: 1682: 1646: 1639: 1437: 1057: 690: 164: 73: 10400:
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth
10241:"The Emergence of the Indo-Iranians: The Indo-Iranian Languages" 8745: 6751:
Martin Joachim Kümmel, department of Indo-European linguistics,
4360:
found in Azerbaijan and as far north as the Russian republic of
4289:). Another Iranian tribe related to the Saka-Scythians were the 4150:
covering a combined area of 503,000 sq mi or 1,302,764 km.
3979:; the Proto-Scythian culture borders the Balto-Slavic cultures ( 3113:
zone north of the Sintashta region that were also predominantly
2654:(Videvdat 1), one of the mentioned homelands was referred to as 2650:("Iranian stretch of the good Dāityā"). In the late part of the 2565:
As the ethnic background of Darius the Great in inscriptions at
11183: 11077: 11016: 10824: 10780: 10770: 10255: 9143: 8856: 7947:
The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
7529: 7078:
Okladnikov, A. P. (1994), "Inner Asia at the dawn of history",
6958: 6059: 6057: 5966:
Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C.
5794: 5625: 5570: 5559: 5547: 5445: 5389: 5372: 5290: 5203: 5183: 5127: 5052: 5002: 4960: 4710: 4597: 4586: 4550: 4502: 4396: 4341: 4181: 4103: 4056: 4052: 4029: 3904: 3880: 3828:
and the rest of Europe. More than a century later, a prince of
3825: 3821: 3778: 3774: 3570: 3515: 3290: 3145: 3141: 2764: 2759: 2728: 2673: 2651: 2508: 2221: 2185: 2130: 2063: 1405: 1359: 878: 695: 65: 10093: 9834: 9207: 8384:
The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy
7994: 7062: 6850: 5474:
came to Sindh to find jobs and eventually founded the city of
5167: 4196:
in the former. For instance, the Proto-Slavonic words for god
4122:
to the south. Their territory, which was known as Sarmatia to
11041: 10896: 10790: 9366: 7794: 7448:"Kurdish: An Indo-European Language By Siamak Rezaei Durroei" 5617:. They found that the most common paternal haplogroups were: 5563: 5543: 5463: 5376: 5263: 5221: 5044: 4972: 4558: 4498: 4419: 4415: 4411: 4290: 4252: 4239:, who also ventured far and wide, with a branch ending up in 4236: 4165: 4107: 4094:
in warfare, which possibly served as the inspiration for the
4084: 4036:. He was the first to make a reference to them. Many ancient 3908: 3824:
territories, setting the direct further course of history of
3802: 3750: 3732: 3633: 3526: 3495: 3464: 3412: 3368: 3262: 3177: 3118: 3019: 2738: 2661: 2635: 2464: 2450: 2237: 2189: 2157: 2102: 2090: 2082: 1504: 1378: 1372: 1354: 725: 700: 127: 9316: 7798:"137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes" 6744:"Areal developments in the history of Iranic: West vs. East" 6054: 3422:
Most researchers associate the Andronovo horizon with early
3215:. It is probably better termed an archaeological complex or 2371:
There have been many attempts to qualify the verbal root of
26:"Iranics" redirects here. For the left-leaning italics, see 10811: 10537: 7927:
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates by Hugh Kennedy,
6636: 6590:
Lazard, G. (1975). "The Rise of the New Persian Language".
6479:
Dalby, Andrew (2004), Dictionary of Languages, Bloomsbury,
5551: 5341:) tribes and other Indo-European peoples who inhabited the 5334: 5303: 5107: 5087: 4802: 4554: 4514: 4494: 4446: 4399: 4392: 4260: 4024:(5th century BC) makes references to a nomadic people, the 3959:
correlating to speakers of Balto-Slavic in the Bronze Age (
3911:
around the year 1000 AD, whereas linguistic evidence links
3889: 3855:
kings usually wrote their inscriptions in trilingual form (
3801:, and is noted in Western history as the antagonist of the 3538: 3442: 3302: 2831: 2596:
because it is the ancestor of the modern Persian language.
2379:. The following are according to 1957 and later linguists: 2193: 2118: 1896: 10348:. The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads (CSEN). 10327:. The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads (CSEN). 10167:
A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, 2nd edition
7427: 7425: 7423: 7421: 6940: 6161:
The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations
5258:: In spite of being native speakers of a Turkic language ( 4184:), as well as loanwords adopted predominantly through the 3711:
in 612 BC, which resulted in the eventual collapse of the
3151:
carried out there, which is unusual for a steppe culture.
2638:
13.143–44, etc.), where it appears in expressions such as
9700: 9119:"From Zardaris to Makranis: How the Baloch came to Sindh" 7576: 7545: 6862: 6828: 6826: 4671:
Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the Caucasus, Uzbekistan,
3753:
and the Babylonian Empire after which he established the
3339:(1500–1300 BC) in southern Siberia (earliest evidence of 2968:
The Proto-Indo-Iranians are commonly identified with the
2050:
are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the
9032:"Ideja o iranskom podrijetlu traje preko dvjesto godina" 7280:
Liverani, M. (1995). "The Medes at Esarhaddon's Court".
7044: 7032: 6874: 5293:: The unique grammatical and phonetical features of the 4457:. Iranian influence was also an principal factor in the 4449:, while various empires centered in Iran (including the 4134:, also to a smaller extent north eastern Balkans around 3379:
depression, with some sites as far west as the southern
7418: 6789: 6787: 3749:, would overthrow the leading Median rule, and conquer 3200:
The Andronovo culture is a collection of similar local
9502: 6838: 6823: 6799: 6082: 6080: 6078: 5716:
The presence of haplogroup J2, like in Iran, of 5–20%.
5145:, Iranian religions and various levels of irreligion. 4765:
Pakistan, Iran, Oman, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, UAE,
9498: 9496: 9410: 9249: 9247: 7371: 7137:"Secrets of the Dead, Casefile: Amazon Warrior Women" 6630: 6628: 6107: 3387:. Additional sites are scattered as far south as the 2611:, which translates to "I am the king of the kingdom ( 2523:
of the 6th century BC. The inscription of Bistun (or
8648:"AZERBAIJAN vii. The Iranian Language of Azerbaijan" 8587:"AZERBAIJAN vii. The Iranian Language of Azerbaijan" 8315: 8313: 8311: 6784: 6560:
Gershevitch, Ilya (1968). "Old Iranian Literature".
6368: 6357: 6191:"AZERBAIJAN vii. The Iranian Language of Azerbaijan" 6063: 5110:. In ancient Iran, fire was kept with great care in 4481:
identities until the 19th and early 20th centuries.
4055:
as the dominant tribe which controlled the southern
2405: 2300: 2081:
who emerged after the 1st millennium BC include the
9596: 9546: 6772: 6075: 3597:
Distribution of Iranic peoples during the Iron Age.
3207:cultures that flourished c. 1800–900 BC in western 2615:) of the Iranians". In Middle Persian, Shapur says 9493: 9244: 7949:. University of California Press. pp. 88–89. 6906: 6904: 6891: 6889: 6760: 6625: 6473: 6136: 6134: 6132: 6103: 6101: 3561:" group by the early 1st millennium is visible in 3219:. The name derives from the village of Andronovo ( 2964:cultures are candidates for the same associations. 2256:in the east—a region that is sometimes called the 10205:, Schocken Books, Zurich (1963). ASIN B0006BYXHY. 10132:The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus 9640: 8411: 8308: 8201: 8199: 8197: 7892:The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus 7583:(3 April 2006 ed.). Hansard London. p.  7577:Arrowsmith, A; Fellowes, B; Hansard, G L (1832). 7552:(3 April 2006 ed.). Hansard London. p.  7546:Arrowsmith, A; Fellowes, B; Hansard, G L (1832). 7467:"The Iranian Language Family, Khodadad Rezakhani" 7332:– University of Chicago. . Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7107: 7082:, Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, p. 83, 6064:Brzezinski, Richard; Mielczarek, Mariusz (2002). 5031:, which is associated with other cultures of the 3184:finds (purple), and the adjacent and overlapping 2852:Some scholars such as John Perry prefer the term 2569:and Susa (Dna, Dse) and the ethnic background of 2543:of the inscription does not signify anything but 11221: 10213:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 146–167. 10050:, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2002). 9412:Santachiara-Benerecetti, A. Silvana (May 2004). 8694: 8381: 7705:– Thirteen WNET New York. Retrieved 4 June 2006. 6292:. Vol. 8. Costa Mesa: Mazda. Archived from 5872: 5870: 5868: 5866: 4285:and finally deep into present day Pakistan (see 3652:in the east. Following the establishment of the 10606: 8412:Steblin-Kamenskij, Ivan M. (30 December 2012). 7619: 6901: 6886: 6308: 6129: 6098: 4752:Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan 3548: 3375:interfluvial. To the east, it reaches into the 10038:: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2024 ( 9919:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 47–73. 9312: 9310: 8971: 8905: 8899: 8670: 8407: 8405: 8403: 8350: 8194: 7376:, etymology and concept by Alexander Lubotsky" 7020: 6521: 6519: 6419: 6417: 6415: 6413: 6411: 6409: 6407: 6405: 5879:"IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (1) A General Survey" 5647:people, was rarely over 10% in Iranian groups. 4320:in southern Xinjiang and the Ossetians of the 4313:tribes emanating out of Xinjiang and Siberia. 2443: 10707: 10309:Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East 6576: 6574: 6572: 5863: 5462:: Though today the Balochis are only 3.6% of 4176:proper (e.g. some of the largest rivers; the 3739:, became one of the four major powers of the 3679:At first, the Western Iranian peoples in the 3043: 2356: 2008: 10628: 10208: 9368:Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia". 8906:Askarov, A.; Ahmadov, B. (20 January 1994). 8538: 7360:Achaemenid dynasty (i. The clan and dynasty) 7351: 7038: 6916: 6279: 6277: 6275: 5499: 5448:in Iran who settled along the Swahili coast. 5186:worn by a Sogdian horseman, 8th–10th century 4473:amongst others) as well to the court of the 4388:into being primarily of East Asian descent. 2668:'s view) and even the entire expanse of the 2592:("Iranian"), modern scholars refer to it as 2550:In royal Old Persian inscriptions, the term 2535:) describes itself to have been composed in 10457: 9997:Burrow, T. (1973), "The Proto-Indoaryans", 9945:, Syracuse University Press (August 1988). 9307: 8400: 7718: 7479: 7161: 7129: 6962:"Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia" 6559: 6553: 6516: 6402: 6373:"to assemble skillfully", present in Greek 5707:The presence of "East-Eurasian" haplogroup 4573:. There are also Iranian peoples living in 4142:published in 1832, Sarmatia had two parts, 3687:empires. An alliance of the Medes with the 3537:, while other Scythian tribes, such as the 3383:, overlapping with the area of the earlier 3117:. Allentoft et al. (2015) also found close 2609:"ego ... tou Arianon ethnous despotes eimi" 2156:, was significantly reduced as a result of 10714: 10700: 10558:, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2004). 10343: 10322: 7316: 7262:University Press of America, 16 May 2009. 7077: 7073: 7071: 6910: 6895: 6569: 6220:Emmerick, Ronald Eric (23 February 2016). 6017: 5762:List of geographic names of Iranian origin 5023:, and has its origins tracing back to the 4063:, who conquered the western tribes in the 3934: 3588: 3426:, though it may have overlapped the early 2576:As the definition of the God of Iranians, 2495:describes itself to have been composed in 2458:remains in ethno-linguistic names such as 2137:, among other Iranian-speaking peoples of 2015: 2001: 1979:Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 10364: 10311:, University of California Press (1991). 10292:The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates 10105:(3). American Oriental Society: 473–477. 9941:Banuazizi, Ali and Weiner, Myron (eds.). 9877: 9811: 9793: 9743: 9733: 9683: 9673: 9623: 9573: 9505:American Journal of Physical Anthropology 9437: 9343: 9290: 9280: 9180: 9162: 9029: 9014: 8965: 8948: 8938: 8882: 8645: 8584: 8104: 8068:(Online ed.). Langley, Virginia: US 8056: 7831: 7460: 7441: 7080:The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia 7026: 6455: 6453: 6451: 6426:"Iranian Identity ii. Pre-Islamic Period" 6283: 6272: 6188: 6005: 5993: 4231:The Sarmatians of the east, based in the 3847:(c. 519 BC), recording a proclamation by 3608:at its greatest extent under the rule of 3433: 3014:) the other group were the Vedic people. 2887: 2573:in the inscription from Persepolis (Xph). 10629:Waldman, Carl; Mason, Catherine (2006). 10584: 10508:, Minority Rights Group, London (1992). 10235: 10099:Journal of the American Oriental Society 9956: 9093:"Baloch and Sindhis share historic ties" 8484: 7660: 7634:American Slavic and East European Review 7607: 7363: 7279: 7063:Diakonoff, Kuz'mina & Ivantchik 1995 6868: 6856: 6832: 6817: 6793: 6219: 6112:. Stanford University Press. p. 3. 6023: 5999: 5619: 5585:Tat men from the village of Adur in the 5580: 5569: 5520: 5494:. The Baloch in Sindh are known as the 5345:before the arrival of the Turkic tribes. 5266:, aside from the rise of the subsequent 5177: 5166: 5148: 5098:The early Iranian peoples practiced the 5077: 4997: 4265: 3994: 3970: 3938: 3656:, the Persian language (referred to as " 3615: 3600: 3592: 3510:and Sarmatian tribes were spread across 3437: 3171: 3121:genetic relationship between peoples of 3053: 2948:have often been associated with it. The 2932:Archaeological cultures associated with 2927: 2906: 2482: 10551:, Tibbi Academy, Aligarh, India (1998). 10519: 10493:, I.B. Tauris, 3rd Rev edition (2004). 10417: 10393: 9914: 9905: 8697:International Journal of Immunogenetics 8678:"The Columbia Encyclopedia: Azerbaijan" 8267: 8236: 7696:"Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Archaeologist" 7689: 7665: 7663: 7396:Old Persian: Grammar, texts and lexicon 7101: 7068: 7050: 6946: 6934: 6922: 6880: 6844: 6805: 6778: 6562:Handbuch der Orientalistik, Literatur I 6314: 6011: 5600: 4406:of the Persians and seized much of the 4011:symbol in the left field on the reverse 3430:-speaking area at its northern fringe. 11222: 10048:Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective 9996: 9418:The American Journal of Human Genetics 8863:The American Journal of Human Genetics 8788: 8488:Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective 8414:"CENTRAL ASIA xiii. Iranian Languages" 8296:from the original on 11 September 2018 8283: 8237:Planhol, Xavier de (7 February 2012). 7963: 7785:– Ethnologue. . Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7750: 7476:– Iranologie. . Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7357: 6766: 6680:Sims-Williams, ed. Wiesbaden, pp 79-92 6589: 6525: 6448: 3660:" in Persian after being changed from 3573:are believed to have been composed by 2923: 2892: 2819:All this evidence shows that the name 2603:inscription erected by the command of 10695: 10445:from the original on 19 February 2023 10424:Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture 10352:from the original on 28 February 2019 10331:from the original on 28 February 2019 10161: 10149:from the original on 18 February 2023 10125: 8908:O'zbek Xalqning Kilib Chiqishi Torixi 8833: 8585:Yarshater, Ehsan (15 December 1988). 8442: 8239:"Evolution of geographical knowledge" 8182:from the original on 12 February 2012 8137: 8098: 7909:from the original on 18 February 2023 7885: 7864:from the original on 21 February 2020 7631: 7413:Aramaic Documents of the V Century BC 6689: 6634: 6436:from the original on 17 November 2011 6232:from the original on 11 November 2020 6189:Yarshater, Ehsan (15 December 1988). 6091:. Taylor & Francis. p. 523. 6089:Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture 6086: 5942: 5833:and not a simple adjectival epithet". 5420:: The Shirazi are a sub-group of the 4949: 4932: 4367: 3101:also shows the influence of the late 2847: 2554:appears in three different contexts: 2180:. Modern Iranian peoples include the 1986:Indo-European Etymological Dictionary 1958:Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture 9984:from the original on 25 January 2023 9030:Stagličić, Ivan (27 November 2008). 8818: 8532: 8523: 8469: 8332:from the original on 26 October 2020 8319: 8214:. Vol. XIII. pp. 204–212. 8037: 7944: 7769: 7766:– Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7708: 6495: 6250: 5885:. Vol. XIII. pp. 321–326. 5172:Bronze Statue of a Parthian nobleman 4255:during their migrations. The modern 3293:settlement dated to the 17th century 3161: 3092:, an offshoot of the cattle-herding 2646:("land inhabited by Iranians"), and 2301: 56:Regions with significant populations 28:Italic type § Iranic font style 10721: 10506:Afghanistan: A Nation of Minorities 8974:Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland 8654:. Vol. III. pp. 238–245. 8646:Yarshater, Ehsan (18 August 2011). 8249:from the original on 24 August 2019 8205: 7976:from the original on 1 October 2012 6937:, p. 390 (fig. 15.9), 405–411. 6157: 6037:"A Persian view of Steppe Iranians" 5823:pārsa pārsahyā puça ariya ariyaciça 5743:via contact events starting in the 5500: 5104:that of other Indo-European peoples 4915: 4879: 4859: 4247:, as they accompanied the Germanic 3817:, was built in the empire as well. 3769:in the east. The largest empire of 2648:airyanəm vaējō vaŋhuyāfi dāityayāfi 2411:, meaning "(skillfully) assembler". 2357: 2172:expansions; many were subjected to 2043:) and other cultural similarities. 1943:Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 13: 10677:." PLoS One 10.4 (2015): e0122968. 10667: 10653:from the original on 11 March 2023 10065:The Iranian People of the Caucasus 9604:European Journal of Human Genetics 9554:European Journal of Human Genetics 9324:American Journal of Human Genetics 9073:from the original on 23 March 2023 8562:from the original on 28 April 2024 8505:from the original on 3 August 2024 8292:. Vol. XV. pp. 496–497. 8286:"KANGAVAR – Encyclopaedia Iranica" 7970:Ethnologue: Languages of the World 7197:"Encyclopedia of European Peoples" 6327:from the original on 20 April 2019 5911:. Vol. 15. 1954. p. 306. 5517:Genetic history of the Middle East 4754: 4729: 4681: 3815:Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 3286:fortified settlement in Kazakhstan 3037:, were also of Indo-Aryan origin. 2737:(1st century AD), mentions of the 2584:version of the Bistun Inscription. 2335:(in Parthian), both deriving from 1965:The Horse, the Wheel, and Language 14: 11251: 10571:Indo-Iranian Languages and People 10531:. London and New York: Routledge. 10275:from the original on 20 June 2015 9481:from the original on 11 July 2024 9099:from the original on 9 April 2023 8803: 8778:from the original on 6 June 2011. 8658:from the original on 11 June 2019 8597:from the original on 11 June 2019 8420:. Vol. V. pp. 223–226. 8363:from the original on 8 April 2023 8284:Kleiss, Wolfram (20 April 2012). 8245:. Vol. X. pp. 426–431. 8156:from the original on 17 June 2023 8119:from the original on 11 June 2009 7008:from the original on 13 July 2019 6470:Also accessed online in May 2010. 6423: 6201:from the original on 11 June 2019 6068:. Osprey Publishing. p. 39. 4796: 3636:also entered in contact with the 2763:is further extended to a part of 2425:"to beget" ("born", "nurturing"). 11240:Ethnic groups in the Middle East 10632:Encyclopedia of European Peoples 10294:, Longman, New York, NY (2004). 9828: 9760: 9590: 9540: 9531: 9463: 9454: 9404: 9360: 9201: 9137: 9125:from the original on 7 June 2019 9111: 9085: 9054: 9042:from the original on 1 July 2015 9023: 9008: 8999: 8990: 8914: 8850: 8827: 8812: 8797: 8782: 8739: 8709:10.1111/j.1744-313x.2007.00723.x 8688: 8639: 8627:from the original on 30 May 2023 8609: 8578: 8517: 8478: 8463: 8436: 8424:from the original on 17 May 2019 8375: 8344: 8277: 8230: 8218:from the original on 17 May 2016 8168: 8147:United states institute of peace 8038:Kaya, Mehmed S. (15 June 2011). 8009:10.1046/j.1529-8817.2005.00174.x 7497:from the original on 11 May 2020 7409:Persepolis Fortification Tablets 7117:. Taylorandfrancis.metapress.com 6504:from the original on 17 May 2023 5889:from the original on 17 May 2019 5876: 5836: 5299:Russian conquest of Central Asia 4956:Zoroastrian groups in South Asia 4853:Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China ( 4281:, large sections of present-day 4007:(reigned c. 35–12 BC). Buddhist 3834:First Persian invasion of Greece 3276:fortification of ca. 1800 BC in 3136:and played an important role in 3081:, dated to the period 2100–1800 1972:Journal of Indo-European Studies 736:Bible translations into Armenian 227: 10403:. London: Thames & Hudson. 8976:. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 40–41. 8131: 8031: 7988: 7964:Gordon, Raymond G. Jr. (2005). 7957: 7938: 7935:(retrieved 4 June 2006), p. 135 7921: 7879: 7788: 7733: 7680: 7625: 7613: 7570: 7539: 7509: 7401: 7388: 7335: 7273: 7245: 7223:Prudence Jones. Nigel Pennick. 7217: 7195:Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason. 7189: 7155: 7095: 6952: 6735: 6726: 6683: 6673: 6664: 6655: 6616: 6583: 6564:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 1–31. 6489: 6392: 6338: 6244: 6213: 6182: 6151: 5848:Origin hypotheses of the Croats 5779: 5757:List of ancient Iranian peoples 5719:A relative paucity of "Indian" 5432:, especially on the islands of 4484: 3967:dots = archaic Slavic hydronyms 3843:Old Persian is attested in the 3676:) descending from Old Persian. 2826:The academic usage of the term 2515:attested reference to the word 247:List of Indo-European languages 10614:. Cambridge University Press. 10592:. Routledge. pp. 60–121. 10529:Artefacts, languages and texts 8491:. Cambridge University Press. 8386:. Cambridge University Press. 7966:"Report for Iranian languages" 7729:. Microsoft Corporation. 2008. 7491:Encyclopædia Britannica Online 6284:MacKenzie, David Niel (1998). 6029: 5936: 5901: 5844:Origin hypotheses of the Serbs 5538:. Analyzed samples of Iranian 4140:A Grammar of Ancient Geography 4110:, bordering the shores of the 3707:, helped the Medes to capture 3683:were dominated by the various 3463:, and Iranian peoples such as 2830:is distinct from the state of 2717:(1.94.2) considers Zoroaster ( 1: 10687:. Princeton University Press. 10491:A Modern History of the Kurds 9910:. Princeton University Press. 8806:History of Iranian Literature 8351:Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques. 7162:Tim McNeese (November 2004). 6600:10.1017/CHOL9780521200936.021 6592:The Cambridge History of Iran 6251:Frye, Richard Nelson (2005). 6066:The Sarmatians, 600 BC-AD 450 5972:. Vol. 11 (2 ed.). 5970:The Cambridge Ancient History 5943:Young, T. Cuyler Jr. (1988). 5856: 5224:, and many were subjected to 3836:) later known by the name of 3672:) and Central-Asia (known as 3450: 3004: 2767:and of Media, as also to the 2421:Harold Walter Bailey (1959): 1573:Proto-Indo-European mythology 842:Paleolithic continuity theory 16:Group of Indo-European people 10219:10.1017/CBO9780511605376.005 9925:10.1017/CBO9780511605376.005 9795:10.1371/journal.pone.0041252 9735:10.1371/journal.pone.0076748 9675:10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 9282:10.1371/journal.pone.0041252 9164:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008385 8485:Canfield, Robert L. (2002). 8140:"Conflict dynamics in sindh" 7620:Sussex & Cubberley (2011 7282:Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4549:majority populated areas of 4044:range in northern Pakistan. 3851:. In southwestern Iran, the 3549:Western and Eastern Iranians 3486:Scythian tribes, along with 3003:kingdom in northern Syria; ( 2792:(a Middle Iranian language) 2324:are oblique plural forms of 1261:Northern Black Polished Ware 460:Proto-Indo-European language 7: 11149:Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism 10190:, Mazda Publishers (2005). 9648:Pierre A. (28 March 2012). 9015:Milanović, Miodrag (2008). 8752:Russian Journal of Genetics 8138:Hasan, Syed shoaib (2015). 8070:Central Intelligence Agency 7372: 7225:"A History of Pagan Europe" 7206:Infobase Publishing, 2006. 6820:, p. 33 note 20, p.35. 5750: 5624:Kurdish people celebrating 5510: 5063: 4994:Proto-Indo-European society 4926:Uzbekistan and Tajikistan ( 4441:, a noted adversary of the 4391:Starting with the reign of 3955:, the latter with proposed 3765:proper in the west, to the 2749:of the Iranian Plateau and 1578:Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism 10: 11256: 10681:Anthony, David W. (2007). 10673:Balanovsky, Oleg, et al. " 10610:; Cubberley, Paul (2011). 10573:, British Academy (2003). 10325:"Sintashta-Arkaim Culture" 10013:(inactive 3 August 2024), 9968:Princeton University Press 9906:Anthony, David W. (2007). 9898: 9862:10.1038/s41467-024-46161-7 8548:. I.B. Tauris. p. 6. 8322:"Ancient Iranian religion" 7528:as the bitter foe of King 6369: 6358: 6164:. I.B. Tauris. p. 6. 6087:Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). 5974:Cambridge University Press 5909:The Encyclopedia Americana 5514: 5248:Origin of the Azerbaijanis 5241: 5152: 5067: 4991: 4987: 4087:population of the region. 3875:, making it a widely used 3811:Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 3165: 3047: 3044:Sintashta–Petrovka culture 2896: 2562:in the Bistun Inscription. 2406: 2344: 2271: 2258:Iranian Cultural Continent 874:Domestication of the horse 25: 18: 11139: 11123: 11102: 11086: 11050: 10729: 10569:Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 10379:10.1017/S0003598X00094096 10011:10.1017/S0035869X00130837 9382:10.1007/s00439-003-1031-4 8382:Runciman, Steven (1982). 7824:10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2 7323:"The Geography of Strabo" 6704:10.1080/00210869808701929 6315:Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987), 5174:, National Museum of Iran 4124:Greco-Roman ethnographers 3514:, South-Eastern Ukraine, 3259:Sintashta-Petrovka-Arkaim 2808:, clearly refers to this 2383:Emmanuel Laroche (1957): 1583:Historical Vedic religion 860:Chalcolithic (Copper Age) 122: 117: 105: 100: 60: 55: 50: 45: 11154:Ancient Iranian religion 10549:Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman 10525:Archaeology and Language 10307:& Kostiner, Joseph. 10250:; Masson, V. M. (eds.). 10078:Derakhshani, Jahanshah. 10046:Canfield, Robert (ed.). 9958:Beckwith, Christopher I. 8621:Encyclopaedia Britannica 8107:"Oman's Diverse Society" 7747:. Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7701:19 February 2006 at the 7677:. Retrieved 4 June 2006. 7168:. Infobase. p. 14. 7039:Hanks & Linduff 2009 6500:. Encyclopedia Iranica. 5772: 5100:ancient Iranian religion 5070:Ancient Iranian religion 5043:as the contrast between 4907:Georgia (South Ossetia), 4625:Persian-speaking peoples 4186:Eastern Slavic languages 3799:Jewish exiles in Babylon 3541:, spread as far east as 2993:Bactria-Margiana Culture 2919:and across Central Asia. 2913:Indo-European migrations 2810:Eastern Iranian language 2626:The Avesta clearly uses 2619:and in Parthian he says 2428:Émil Benveniste (1969): 2418:"to share" (as a union). 2414:Georges Dumézil (1958): 2331:(in Middle Persian) and 1588:Ancient Iranian religion 951:Novotitarovskaya culture 798:Indo-European migrations 11094:Ancient Iranian peoples 10554:Riasanovsky, Nicholas. 10344:Koryakova, L. (1998b). 10323:Koryakova, L. (1998a). 8940:10.1186/1471-2156-10-49 8789:Gabain, A. von (1945). 8764:10.1023/A:1015262522048 8445:Central Asiatic Journal 8357:Encyclopædia Britannica 8326:Encyclopædia Britannica 8208:"IRAN i. LANDS OF IRAN" 7411:; A. L. Driver (1954), 7381:7 February 2006 at the 6648:Encyclopædia Britannica 6226:Encyclopædia Britannica 5643:; commonly found among 5488:British colonial period 5470:and the African Baloch 5155:Turco-Persian tradition 4807:Iran, Kuwait, Oman and 4051:, who are mentioned by 3935:Eastern Iranian peoples 3589:Western Iranian peoples 3301:(2100–1400 BC) between 3125:and Sintashta culture. 3016:Christopher I. Beckwith 2934:Indo-Iranian migrations 2621:"aryānšahr xwadāy ahēm" 2532: 2267: 2079:ancient Iranian peoples 2041:Indo-European languages 1089:Northern/Eastern Steppe 111:Indo-European languages 10590:The Slavonic Languages 10586:Schenker, Alexander M. 10169:. London: Bloomsbury. 10135:. London: Bloomsbury. 10082:, 2nd edition (1999). 9038:(in Croatian). Zadar. 9019:. Beograd. p. 81. 8526:Encyclopaedia of Islam 7972:(Fifteenth ed.). 7895:. London: Bloomsbury. 7472:9 October 2004 at the 7234:Routledge, 11 okt. 2. 6635:Meyer, Eduard (1911). 5741:Ancient East Eurasians 5633: 5597: 5578: 5536:Middle Eastern peoples 5526: 5187: 5175: 5095: 5014: 4727:Afghanistan, Pakistan 4619:population (millions) 4274: 4092:women's prominent role 4012: 3992: 3968: 3951:dialect continuums in 3664:) spread from Pars or 3624: 3613: 3598: 3553:The division into an " 3456: 3434:Scythians and Persians 3424:Indo-Iranian languages 3217:archaeological horizon 3197: 3067:archaeological culture 3059: 2965: 2920: 2888:History and settlement 2786: 2500: 2444: 2394:("fitting", "proper"). 2288:derives directly from 2248:in the south and from 1560:Religion and mythology 1519:Medieval Scandinavians 810:Alternative and fringe 11051:Related ethnic groups 9842:Nature Communications 9566:10.1038/ejhg.2010.146 9475:www.familytreedna.com 9067:archeologia.uw.edu.pl 8793:. Leipzig and Vienna. 8472:Basic course in Uzbek 8320:Malandra, William W. 7781:21 March 2006 at the 7596:Scythia square miles. 7565:Scythia square miles. 7524:, iii) envisaged the 7328:3 August 2024 at the 7258:18 April 2023 at the 7139:. PBS. Archived from 6859:, p. 33 note 20. 6527:Bailey, Harold Walter 6255:. Mazda. p. xi. 6158:Roy, Olivier (2007). 5623: 5584: 5573: 5524: 5515:Further information: 5482:was an ethnic Baloch 5181: 5170: 5149:Cultural assimilation 5081: 5001: 4269: 4233:Pontic–Caspian steppe 3998: 3974: 3942: 3773:, with their base in 3745:Later on, in 550 BC, 3619: 3604: 3596: 3512:Great Hungarian Plain 3441: 3175: 3057: 2931: 2910: 2755: 2617:"ērānšahr xwadāy hēm" 2486: 2400:being descended from 1910:Indo-European studies 1273:Peoples and societies 11235:Indo-Iranian peoples 11115:Proto-Indo-Europeans 11027:Tats of the Caucasus 10612:The Slavic Languages 10429:Taylor & Francis 10258:. pp. 346–370. 9616:10.1038/ejhg.2012.86 8910:. O'zbekiston Ovozi. 8791:Özbekische Grammatik 8652:Encyclopædia Iranica 8591:Encyclopædia Iranica 8545:The new Central Asia 8418:Encyclopædia Iranica 8290:Encyclopædia Iranica 8243:Encyclopædia Iranica 8212:Encyclopædia Iranica 8206:Planhol, Xavier de. 7762:28 June 2011 at the 7453:17 June 2006 at the 7230:7 April 2023 at the 7202:7 April 2023 at the 6594:. pp. 595–632. 6535:Encyclopedia Iranica 6430:Encyclopedia Iranica 6367:adjective to a root 6321:Encyclopedia Iranica 6290:Encyclopedia Iranica 6195:Encyclopædia Iranica 5883:Encyclopædia Iranica 5799:Behistun inscription 5601:Paternal haplogroups 4228:, of good and evil. 4157:, and swaths of the 4118:Seas as well as the 4106:and eastward to the 4102:to the mouth of the 3845:Behistun Inscription 3328:in the south of the 2984:on the west and the 2903:Proto-Indo-Europeans 2800:(the founder of the 2244:in the north to the 2070:in the east and the 817:Anatolian hypothesis 769:Proto-Indo-Europeans 676:Hittite inscriptions 221:Indo-European topics 189:(Historically also: 91:(Historically also: 21:Demographics of Iran 10637:Infobase Publishing 10556:A History of Russia 10473:Thames & Hudson 9854:2024NatCo..15.1882V 9786:2012PLoSO...741252G 9726:2013PLoSO...876748D 9666:2012PLoSO...734288H 9273:2012PLoSO...741252G 8808:. pp. 520–605. 7816:2018Natur.557..369D 7757:"Report for Talysh" 7622:, pp. 111–112) 7407:R. Hallock (1969), 7346:Ancient Mesopotamia 7143:on 29 December 2013 6986:10.1038/nature14507 6978:2015Natur.522..167A 6949:, pp. 385–388. 6353:Proto-Indo-European 6222:"Iranian languages" 4609: 3999:Silver coin of the 3838:Alexander the Great 3713:Neo-Assyrian Empire 3284:Petrovka settlement 3234: /  3128:The earliest known 3123:Corded Ware culture 3109:settlements in the 2972:and the subsequent 2924:Proto-Indo-Iranians 2893:Indo-European roots 2868:or differentiating 2642:("Iranian lands"), 2630:as an ethnic name ( 2402:Proto-Indo-European 2066:in the west to the 1073:Multi-cordoned ware 944:Mikhaylovka culture 832:Indigenous Aryanism 822:Armenian hypothesis 681:Hieroglyphic Luwian 84:, western areas of 80:, western areas of 42: 10095:Diakonoff, Igor M. 9517:10.1002/ajpa.22167 8838:(PhD). Princeton. 8834:Levin, T. (1984). 8065:The World Factbook 6753:University of Jena 6468:on 3 January 2013. 6014:, pp. 308–311 5809:'s inscription at 5785:In the Avesta the 5634: 5609:(2006) and Grugni 5598: 5579: 5574:Tajik people from 5527: 5260:Azerbaijani Turkic 5244:Old Azeri language 5208:northwest of China 5188: 5176: 5159:Persianate society 5096: 5015: 4607: 4368:Later developments 4275: 4013: 3993: 3969: 3807:Greco-Persian Wars 3793:and the use of an 3640:. Remnants of the 3625: 3614: 3612:(522 BC to 486 BC) 3599: 3457: 3278:Chelyabinsk Oblast 3198: 3105:, a collection of 3073:on the borders of 3060: 3018:suggests that the 2966: 2921: 2848:Iranian vs. Iranic 2521:Bistun Inscription 2501: 2489:Bistun Inscription 2435:("companionable"). 653:Proto-Indo-Iranian 639:Proto-Balto-Slavic 620:Proto-Italo-Celtic 38: 11217: 11216: 11141:Iranian religions 11131:Iranian languages 11001: 10994: 10987: 10973: 10959: 10952: 10943: 10936: 10929: 10922: 10908: 10899: 10892: 10885: 10864: 10857: 10850: 10843: 10836: 10827: 10820: 10806: 10799: 10760: 10621:978-0-521-29448-5 10599:978-0-415-28078-5 10527:. Vol. III: 10489:McDowall, David. 10410:978-0-500-27616-7 10305:Khoury, Philip S. 10265:978-92-3-102719-2 10228:978-0-511-60537-6 9960:(16 March 2009). 9934:978-0-511-60537-6 9610:(12): 1275–1282. 9222:10.1159/000093774 9121:. 27 March 2014. 8983:978-0-7656-1318-9 8819:Jung, A. (1983). 8555:978-1-84511-552-4 8498:978-0-521-52291-5 8470:Raun, A. (1969). 8393:978-0-521-28926-9 8084:on 6 January 2019 7810:(7705): 369–374. 7776:"Report for Tats" 7536:(modern Georgia). 7432:Greek and Iranian 7089:978-0-521-24304-9 7053:, pp. 20–21. 6972:(7555): 167–172. 6883:, pp. 42–43. 6609:978-1-139-05496-6 6377:"chariot", Greek 6262:978-1-56859-177-3 6171:978-1-84511-552-4 6119:978-0-8047-0910-1 5953:Hammond, N. G. L. 5924:Missing or empty 5917:cite encyclopedia 5084:ruins at Kangavar 5074:Iranian religions 5041:Iranian mythology 5025:Andronovo culture 4985: 4984: 4877:Azerbaijan, Iran 4594:Iranian languages 4529:, other parts of 4471:Anatolian Beyliks 4410:populated by the 4148:Sarmatia Asiatica 3957:material cultures 3803:Greek city states 3795:official language 3755:Achaemenid Empire 3741:ancient Near East 3654:Achaemenid Empire 3606:Achaemenid Empire 3577:, the founder of 3449:, from a carpet, 3385:Afanasevo culture 3252:Sintashta culture 3238:55.883°N 55.700°E 3196:cultures (green). 3168:Andronovo culture 3162:Andronovo culture 3156:Andronovo culture 3050:Sintashta culture 2980:that borders the 2974:Andronovo culture 2970:Sintashta culture 2838:is distinct from 2705:and all those of 2699:Eudemus of Rhodes 2676:'s designation). 2640:airyāfi daiŋˊhāvō 2505:Iranian languages 2133:, and likely the 2037:Iranian languages 2025: 2024: 1286:Anatolian peoples 1256:Painted Grey Ware 1144:Nordic Bronze Age 793:Kurgan hypothesis 746:Old Irish glosses 711:Gaulish epigraphy 206: 205: 149:Eastern Orthodoxy 109:(a branch of the 107:Iranian languages 11247: 10997: 10990: 10983: 10969: 10955: 10948: 10939: 10932: 10925: 10918: 10904: 10895: 10888: 10881: 10860: 10853: 10846: 10839: 10832: 10823: 10816: 10802: 10795: 10756: 10716: 10709: 10702: 10693: 10692: 10688: 10662: 10660: 10658: 10625: 10603: 10532: 10486: 10454: 10452: 10450: 10414: 10390: 10373:(309): 638–645. 10361: 10359: 10357: 10340: 10338: 10336: 10284: 10282: 10280: 10274: 10245: 10232: 10180: 10158: 10156: 10154: 10122: 10043: 10037: 10029: 9993: 9991: 9989: 9938: 9911: 9892: 9891: 9881: 9832: 9826: 9825: 9815: 9797: 9764: 9758: 9757: 9747: 9737: 9704: 9698: 9697: 9687: 9677: 9644: 9638: 9637: 9627: 9594: 9588: 9587: 9577: 9544: 9538: 9535: 9529: 9528: 9500: 9491: 9490: 9488: 9486: 9467: 9461: 9458: 9452: 9451: 9441: 9424:(5): 1023–1034. 9408: 9402: 9401: 9364: 9358: 9357: 9347: 9314: 9305: 9304: 9294: 9284: 9251: 9242: 9241: 9205: 9199: 9198: 9184: 9166: 9141: 9135: 9134: 9132: 9130: 9115: 9109: 9108: 9106: 9104: 9089: 9083: 9082: 9080: 9078: 9058: 9052: 9051: 9049: 9047: 9027: 9021: 9020: 9017:Srpski stari vek 9012: 9006: 9003: 8997: 8994: 8988: 8987: 8969: 8963: 8962: 8952: 8942: 8918: 8912: 8911: 8903: 8897: 8896: 8886: 8854: 8848: 8847: 8831: 8825: 8824: 8816: 8810: 8809: 8801: 8795: 8794: 8786: 8780: 8779: 8743: 8737: 8736: 8692: 8686: 8685: 8680:. 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Genet 7993: 7989: 7979: 7977: 7962: 7958: 7943: 7939: 7926: 7922: 7912: 7910: 7903: 7884: 7880: 7867: 7865: 7793: 7789: 7783:Wayback Machine 7774: 7770: 7764:Wayback Machine 7755: 7751: 7738: 7734: 7724: 7723: 7719: 7713: 7709: 7703:Wayback Machine 7694: 7690: 7685: 7681: 7668: 7661: 7646:10.2307/2491581 7630: 7626: 7618: 7614: 7606: 7602: 7589: 7587: 7575: 7571: 7558: 7556: 7544: 7540: 7514: 7510: 7500: 7498: 7485: 7484: 7480: 7474:Wayback Machine 7465: 7461: 7455:Wayback Machine 7446: 7442: 7430: 7419: 7406: 7402: 7393: 7389: 7383:Wayback Machine 7368: 7364: 7356: 7352: 7340: 7336: 7330:Wayback Machine 7321: 7317: 7294:10.2307/1359815 7278: 7274: 7260:Wayback Machine 7250: 7246: 7232:Wayback Machine 7222: 7218: 7204:Wayback Machine 7194: 7190: 7180: 7178: 7176: 7165:The Volga River 7160: 7156: 7146: 7144: 7135: 7134: 7130: 7120: 7118: 7113: 7112: 7108: 7100: 7096: 7090: 7076: 7069: 7061: 7057: 7049: 7045: 7037: 7033: 7025: 7021: 7011: 7009: 6957: 6953: 6945: 6941: 6933: 6929: 6921: 6917: 6911:Koryakova 1998a 6909: 6902: 6896:Koryakova 1998b 6894: 6887: 6879: 6875: 6867: 6863: 6855: 6851: 6843: 6839: 6831: 6824: 6816: 6812: 6804: 6800: 6792: 6785: 6777: 6773: 6765: 6761: 6746: 6742: 6740: 6736: 6731: 6727: 6692:Iranian Studies 6688: 6684: 6678: 6674: 6669: 6665: 6660: 6656: 6633: 6626: 6621: 6617: 6610: 6588: 6584: 6579: 6570: 6558: 6554: 6544: 6542: 6541:on 3 March 2016 6524: 6517: 6507: 6505: 6494: 6490: 6478: 6474: 6460: 6458: 6449: 6439: 6437: 6422: 6403: 6397: 6393: 6344:Laroche. 1957. 6343: 6339: 6330: 6328: 6313: 6309: 6299: 6297: 6282: 6273: 6263: 6249: 6245: 6235: 6233: 6218: 6214: 6204: 6202: 6187: 6183: 6172: 6156: 6152: 6142:Slovene Studies 6140: 6139: 6130: 6120: 6110:Women in Russia 6106: 6099: 6085: 6076: 6062: 6055: 6045: 6043: 6035: 6034: 6030: 6022: 6018: 6010: 6006: 5998: 5994: 5984: 5941: 5937: 5925: 5923: 5914: 5913: 5907: 5906: 5902: 5892: 5890: 5875: 5864: 5859: 5854: 5853: 5841: 5837: 5784: 5780: 5775: 5753: 5737:Basal Eurasians 5603: 5519: 5513: 5484:Sindhi speaking 5272:Turkic elements 5250: 5165: 5151: 5076: 5068:Main articles: 5066: 5033:Eurasian Steppe 5020:Iranian Plateau 4996: 4990: 4908: 4815: 4773: 4543:Iraqi Kurdistan 4487: 4404:Sassanid Empire 4370: 4340:neighbors, the 4338:North Caucasian 4279:Iranian Plateau 4155:Southern Russia 4132:Southern Russia 3937: 3929:Zazaki language 3771:ancient history 3747:Cyrus the Great 3642:Median language 3591: 3551: 3481:Iranian Plateau 3461:Eurasian Steppe 3453: 3436: 3322:VI in Turkmenia 3311:Kyzylkum desert 3242: 3240: 3236: 3233: 3228: 3225: 3223: 3221: 3220: 3170: 3164: 3138:ancient warfare 3094:Yamnaya horizon 3071:Eurasian steppe 3052: 3046: 3011: 3007: 2997:Mittani kingdom 2978:Eurasian steppe 2926: 2905: 2897:Main articles: 2895: 2890: 2850: 2785: 2779: 2670:Iranian Plateau 2511:. 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10085: 10081: 10077: 10074: 10073:0-7007-0649-6 10070: 10066: 10062: 10059: 10057: 10056:0-521-52291-9 10053: 10049: 10045: 10041: 10035: 10028: 10024: 10020: 10016: 10012: 10008: 10004: 10000: 9995: 9983: 9979: 9973: 9969: 9965: 9964: 9959: 9955: 9952: 9951:0-8156-2448-4 9948: 9944: 9940: 9936: 9930: 9926: 9922: 9918: 9913: 9909: 9904: 9903: 9889: 9885: 9880: 9875: 9871: 9867: 9863: 9859: 9855: 9851: 9847: 9843: 9839: 9831: 9823: 9819: 9814: 9809: 9805: 9801: 9796: 9791: 9787: 9783: 9780:(7): e41252. 9779: 9775: 9771: 9763: 9755: 9751: 9746: 9741: 9736: 9731: 9727: 9723: 9719: 9715: 9711: 9703: 9695: 9691: 9686: 9681: 9676: 9671: 9667: 9663: 9660:(3): e34288. 9659: 9655: 9651: 9643: 9635: 9631: 9626: 9621: 9617: 9613: 9609: 9605: 9601: 9593: 9585: 9581: 9576: 9571: 9567: 9563: 9560:(1): 95–101. 9559: 9555: 9551: 9543: 9537:Grugni, 2013. 9534: 9526: 9522: 9518: 9514: 9510: 9506: 9499: 9497: 9480: 9476: 9472: 9466: 9457: 9449: 9445: 9440: 9435: 9431: 9427: 9423: 9419: 9415: 9407: 9399: 9395: 9391: 9387: 9383: 9379: 9375: 9371: 9363: 9355: 9351: 9346: 9341: 9337: 9333: 9329: 9325: 9321: 9313: 9311: 9302: 9298: 9293: 9288: 9283: 9278: 9274: 9270: 9267:(7): e41252. 9266: 9262: 9258: 9250: 9248: 9239: 9235: 9231: 9227: 9223: 9219: 9215: 9211: 9204: 9197: 9192: 9188: 9183: 9178: 9174: 9170: 9165: 9160: 9156: 9152: 9151:PLOS Genetics 9148: 9140: 9124: 9120: 9114: 9098: 9094: 9088: 9072: 9068: 9064: 9057: 9041: 9037: 9036:Zadarski list 9033: 9026: 9018: 9011: 9002: 8993: 8985: 8979: 8975: 8968: 8960: 8956: 8951: 8946: 8941: 8936: 8932: 8928: 8924: 8917: 8909: 8902: 8894: 8890: 8885: 8880: 8876: 8872: 8868: 8864: 8860: 8853: 8845: 8841: 8837: 8830: 8822: 8815: 8807: 8800: 8792: 8785: 8777: 8773: 8769: 8765: 8761: 8757: 8753: 8749: 8742: 8734: 8730: 8726: 8722: 8718: 8714: 8710: 8706: 8702: 8698: 8691: 8683: 8679: 8673: 8657: 8653: 8649: 8642: 8626: 8622: 8618: 8617:"Azerbaijani" 8612: 8596: 8592: 8588: 8581: 8574: 8561: 8557: 8551: 8547: 8546: 8541: 8535: 8527: 8520: 8504: 8500: 8494: 8490: 8489: 8481: 8473: 8466: 8458: 8454: 8450: 8447:(in German). 8446: 8439: 8423: 8419: 8415: 8408: 8406: 8404: 8395: 8389: 8385: 8378: 8362: 8358: 8354: 8347: 8331: 8327: 8323: 8316: 8314: 8312: 8295: 8291: 8287: 8280: 8273: 8269: 8264: 8248: 8244: 8240: 8233: 8217: 8213: 8209: 8202: 8200: 8198: 8181: 8177: 8171: 8152: 8148: 8141: 8134: 8115: 8112:. p. 4. 8108: 8101: 8083: 8079: 8075: 8071: 8067: 8066: 8059: 8051: 8045: 8041: 8034: 8026: 8022: 8018: 8014: 8010: 8006: 8002: 7998: 7991: 7975: 7971: 7967: 7960: 7953: 7948: 7941: 7934: 7933:0-582-40525-4 7930: 7924: 7908: 7904: 7902:9780755618453 7898: 7894: 7893: 7888: 7882: 7875: 7863: 7859: 7855: 7851: 7847: 7843: 7839: 7834: 7829: 7825: 7821: 7817: 7813: 7809: 7805: 7804: 7799: 7791: 7784: 7780: 7777: 7772: 7765: 7761: 7758: 7753: 7746: 7745:0-8153-3566-0 7742: 7736: 7728: 7725:"Ossetians". 7721: 7711: 7704: 7700: 7697: 7692: 7683: 7676: 7675:0-19-515394-4 7672: 7666: 7664: 7655: 7651: 7647: 7643: 7639: 7635: 7628: 7621: 7616: 7609: 7604: 7597: 7586: 7582: 7581: 7573: 7566: 7555: 7551: 7550: 7542: 7535: 7531: 7527: 7523: 7522: 7517: 7512: 7496: 7492: 7488: 7482: 7475: 7471: 7468: 7463: 7456: 7452: 7449: 7444: 7437: 7434:, E. Tucker, 7433: 7428: 7426: 7424: 7422: 7414: 7410: 7404: 7397: 7391: 7384: 7380: 7377: 7374: 7366: 7359: 7354: 7347: 7343: 7338: 7331: 7327: 7324: 7319: 7311: 7307: 7303: 7299: 7295: 7291: 7287: 7283: 7276: 7269: 7265: 7261: 7257: 7254: 7248: 7241: 7237: 7233: 7229: 7226: 7220: 7213: 7209: 7205: 7201: 7198: 7192: 7177: 7175:9780791082478 7171: 7167: 7166: 7158: 7142: 7138: 7132: 7116: 7110: 7103: 7098: 7091: 7085: 7081: 7074: 7072: 7064: 7059: 7052: 7047: 7040: 7035: 7028: 7023: 7007: 7003: 6999: 6995: 6991: 6987: 6983: 6979: 6975: 6971: 6967: 6963: 6955: 6948: 6943: 6936: 6931: 6924: 6919: 6912: 6907: 6905: 6897: 6892: 6890: 6882: 6877: 6870: 6869:Beckwith 2009 6865: 6858: 6857:Beckwith 2009 6853: 6846: 6841: 6835:, p. 33. 6834: 6833:Beckwith 2009 6829: 6827: 6819: 6818:Beckwith 2009 6814: 6807: 6802: 6795: 6794:Beckwith 2009 6790: 6788: 6780: 6775: 6768: 6763: 6755: 6754: 6745: 6738: 6729: 6721: 6717: 6713: 6709: 6705: 6701: 6697: 6693: 6686: 6676: 6667: 6658: 6650: 6649: 6644: 6639: 6631: 6629: 6619: 6611: 6605: 6601: 6597: 6593: 6586: 6577: 6575: 6573: 6563: 6556: 6540: 6536: 6532: 6528: 6522: 6520: 6503: 6499: 6492: 6486: 6485:0-7475-7683-1 6482: 6476: 6467: 6463: 6456: 6454: 6452: 6435: 6431: 6427: 6420: 6418: 6416: 6414: 6412: 6410: 6408: 6406: 6395: 6388: 6384: 6380: 6376: 6366: 6362: 6354: 6350: 6347: 6346:Proto-Iranian 6341: 6326: 6322: 6318: 6311: 6295: 6291: 6287: 6280: 6278: 6276: 6268: 6264: 6258: 6254: 6247: 6231: 6227: 6223: 6216: 6200: 6196: 6192: 6185: 6178: 6173: 6167: 6163: 6162: 6154: 6147: 6143: 6137: 6135: 6133: 6125: 6121: 6115: 6111: 6104: 6102: 6094: 6090: 6083: 6081: 6079: 6071: 6067: 6060: 6058: 6042: 6038: 6032: 6025: 6024:Harmatta 1992 6020: 6013: 6008: 6001: 6000:Beckwith 2009 5996: 5989: 5985: 5983:0-521-22804-2 5979: 5976:. p. 1. 5975: 5971: 5968: 5967: 5962: 5958: 5954: 5950: 5946: 5939: 5931: 5918: 5910: 5904: 5888: 5884: 5880: 5873: 5871: 5869: 5867: 5862: 5849: 5845: 5839: 5832: 5828: 5824: 5820: 5816: 5812: 5808: 5804: 5800: 5796: 5792: 5788: 5782: 5778: 5768: 5765: 5763: 5760: 5758: 5755: 5754: 5748: 5746: 5742: 5738: 5732: 5725: 5724: 5718: 5715: 5712: 5711: 5706: 5703: 5700: 5699: 5698: 5691: 5690: 5685: 5682: 5681: 5676: 5673: 5671: 5667: 5664: 5662: 5658: 5655: 5653: 5649: 5646: 5642: 5640: 5636: 5635: 5631: 5627: 5622: 5618: 5616: 5612: 5608: 5596: 5592: 5588: 5583: 5577: 5572: 5568: 5565: 5561: 5557: 5553: 5549: 5545: 5541: 5537: 5533: 5530:closely with 5523: 5518: 5497: 5493: 5489: 5485: 5481: 5477: 5473: 5469: 5465: 5461: 5458: 5457: 5455: 5452: 5447: 5443: 5439: 5435: 5431: 5427: 5426:Swahili coast 5423: 5419: 5416: 5415: 5413: 5410: 5405: 5401: 5396: 5392: 5391: 5386: 5382: 5378: 5374: 5371: 5370: 5368: 5365: 5359: 5355: 5354: 5352: 5349: 5344: 5340: 5336: 5332: 5329: 5326: 5322: 5318: 5314: 5310: 5306: 5305: 5300: 5296: 5292: 5289: 5286: 5283: 5279: 5276: 5273: 5269: 5265: 5261: 5257: 5254: 5253: 5252: 5251: 5249: 5245: 5237: 5234: 5233: 5232: 5229: 5227: 5226:Slavicisation 5223: 5219: 5218: 5217:Turko-Iranian 5213: 5209: 5205: 5201: 5197: 5193: 5185: 5180: 5173: 5169: 5164: 5160: 5156: 5146: 5144: 5139: 5137: 5133: 5129: 5125: 5121: 5117: 5113: 5109: 5105: 5101: 5093: 5089: 5085: 5080: 5075: 5071: 5061: 5057: 5054: 5048: 5046: 5042: 5038: 5034: 5030: 5026: 5022: 5021: 5012: 5008: 5004: 5000: 4995: 4980: 4978: 4974: 4971: 4967: 4964: 4962: 4959: 4958: 4957: 4954: 4953: 4946: 4942: 4940: 4937: 4936: 4929: 4925: 4923: 4920: 4919: 4912: 4911:North Ossetia 4906: 4902: 4899: 4897: 4894: 4892: 4889: 4888: 4887: 4884: 4883: 4876: 4872: 4869: 4868: 4867: 4864: 4863: 4856: 4852: 4848: 4845: 4843: 4840: 4838: 4835: 4833: 4830: 4828: 4825: 4824: 4823: 4820: 4819: 4812: 4810: 4806: 4804: 4801: 4800: 4793: 4791: 4790: 4785: 4781: 4778: 4777: 4770: 4768: 4764: 4762: 4759: 4758: 4751: 4749: 4745: 4741: 4737: 4734: 4733: 4726: 4722: 4719: 4716: 4712: 4708: 4705: 4702: 4698: 4694: 4691: 4690: 4689: 4686: 4685: 4678: 4674: 4670: 4666: 4663: 4661: 4658: 4656: 4653: 4651: 4648: 4646: 4643: 4641: 4640:Achomi people 4638: 4636: 4633: 4631: 4628: 4627: 4626: 4623: 4622: 4618: 4615: 4612: 4611: 4605: 4603: 4599: 4595: 4590: 4588: 4584: 4580: 4579:northern Oman 4576: 4572: 4568: 4564: 4560: 4556: 4552: 4548: 4544: 4540: 4536: 4532: 4528: 4524: 4520: 4516: 4512: 4508: 4504: 4500: 4496: 4492: 4482: 4480: 4476: 4475:Mughal Empire 4472: 4468: 4464: 4463:Turko-Persian 4460: 4456: 4452: 4448: 4444: 4440: 4435: 4433: 4429: 4425: 4422:converted to 4421: 4417: 4413: 4409: 4405: 4401: 4398: 4394: 4389: 4387: 4383: 4379: 4375: 4365: 4363: 4359: 4355: 4351: 4347: 4343: 4339: 4335: 4331: 4330:North Ossetia 4327: 4326:South Ossetia 4323: 4319: 4314: 4312: 4308: 4304: 4300: 4296: 4292: 4288: 4284: 4280: 4272: 4268: 4264: 4262: 4258: 4254: 4250: 4246: 4242: 4238: 4235:, became the 4234: 4229: 4227: 4221: 4219: 4215: 4211: 4207: 4203: 4199: 4195: 4191: 4187: 4183: 4179: 4175: 4171: 4167: 4164: 4160: 4156: 4151: 4149: 4145: 4141: 4137: 4133: 4129: 4125: 4121: 4117: 4113: 4109: 4105: 4101: 4100:Vistula River 4097: 4093: 4088: 4086: 4082: 4078: 4077:Slavicisation 4074: 4070: 4069:Roman Britain 4066: 4062: 4058: 4054: 4050: 4045: 4043: 4039: 4035: 4031: 4027: 4023: 4019: 4010: 4006: 4002: 4001:Indo-Scythian 3997: 3990: 3986: 3982: 3978: 3973: 3966: 3962: 3958: 3954: 3950: 3946: 3941: 3932: 3930: 3926: 3922: 3918: 3914: 3910: 3906: 3902: 3898: 3893: 3891: 3886: 3882: 3878: 3874: 3871:, as well as 3870: 3866: 3862: 3858: 3854: 3850: 3846: 3841: 3839: 3835: 3831: 3827: 3823: 3818: 3816: 3813:, one of the 3812: 3808: 3804: 3800: 3796: 3792: 3788: 3787:postal system 3784: 3780: 3776: 3772: 3768: 3764: 3760: 3756: 3752: 3748: 3743: 3742: 3738: 3734: 3730: 3726: 3722: 3718: 3714: 3710: 3706: 3702: 3698: 3694: 3690: 3686: 3682: 3677: 3675: 3671: 3667: 3666:Fars Province 3663: 3659: 3655: 3651: 3647: 3643: 3639: 3635: 3631: 3622: 3618: 3611: 3607: 3603: 3595: 3586: 3584: 3580: 3576: 3572: 3568: 3564: 3560: 3556: 3546: 3544: 3540: 3536: 3532: 3528: 3524: 3520: 3517: 3513: 3509: 3505: 3502:north of the 3501: 3497: 3493: 3489: 3484: 3482: 3478: 3474: 3470: 3466: 3462: 3454: 300 BC 3448: 3444: 3440: 3431: 3429: 3425: 3420: 3418: 3414: 3410: 3406: 3402: 3398: 3394: 3390: 3386: 3382: 3378: 3374: 3370: 3366: 3357:(1000–800 BC) 3356: 3352: 3349: 3348: 3346: 3342: 3338: 3335: 3331: 3330:Tyumen Oblast 3327: 3326:Ingala Valley 3324: 3321: 3317: 3314: 3313: 3312: 3308: 3304: 3300: 3297: 3292: 3288: 3285: 3281: 3279: 3275: 3271: 3270: 3268: 3264: 3260: 3257: 3256: 3255: 3253: 3247: 3218: 3214: 3211:and the west 3210: 3206: 3203: 3195: 3191: 3187: 3183: 3179: 3174: 3169: 3159: 3157: 3152: 3150: 3147: 3143: 3139: 3135: 3131: 3126: 3124: 3120: 3116: 3112: 3111:forest steppe 3108: 3104: 3100: 3095: 3091: 3086: 3084: 3080: 3076: 3072: 3068: 3065: 3056: 3051: 3041: 3038: 3036: 3032: 3028: 3025: 3024:Indo-European 3021: 3017: 3002: 2998: 2994: 2989: 2988:on the east. 2987: 2983: 2979: 2975: 2971: 2963: 2959: 2955: 2951: 2947: 2943: 2939: 2935: 2930: 2918: 2914: 2909: 2904: 2900: 2899:Indo-Iranians 2885: 2883: 2879: 2875: 2871: 2867: 2863: 2859: 2855: 2845: 2843: 2842: 2837: 2833: 2829: 2824: 2822: 2817: 2815: 2811: 2807: 2803: 2802:Kushan Empire 2799: 2795: 2791: 2782: 2776: 2774: 2770: 2766: 2762: 2761: 2754: 2752: 2748: 2744: 2740: 2736: 2735: 2730: 2726: 2724: 2720: 2716: 2712: 2708: 2704: 2700: 2696: 2692: 2688: 2687: 2682: 2677: 2675: 2671: 2667: 2663: 2659: 2658: 2653: 2649: 2645: 2644:airyō šayanəm 2641: 2637: 2633: 2629: 2624: 2622: 2618: 2614: 2610: 2606: 2602: 2597: 2595: 2591: 2583: 2579: 2575: 2572: 2568: 2567:Rustam Relief 2564: 2561: 2557: 2556: 2555: 2553: 2548: 2546: 2542: 2538: 2534: 2530: 2526: 2522: 2518: 2514: 2510: 2506: 2498: 2494: 2490: 2485: 2481: 2479: 2478: 2473: 2472: 2467: 2466: 2461: 2457: 2453: 2452: 2446: 2442: 2434: 2432: 2427: 2424: 2420: 2417: 2413: 2410: 2403: 2399: 2393: 2391: 2389: 2382: 2381: 2380: 2378: 2374: 2369: 2367: 2364: 2363:Proto-Iranian 2354: 2351: 2341: 2338: 2334: 2330: 2327: 2323: 2319: 2315: 2311: 2308: 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Index

Demographics of Iran
Italic type § Iranic font style
West Asia
Turkey
Caucasus
Ossetia
Central Asia
South Asia
Xinjiang
Eastern Europe
Iranian languages
Indo-European languages
Islam
Sunni
Shia
Christianity
Eastern Orthodoxy
Nestorianism
Catholicism
Protestantism
Judaism
Baháʼí Faith
Yazidism
Yarsanism
Zoroastrianism
Assianism
Iranian paganism
Buddhism
Manichaeism
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