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Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (c. 1856–1917) Iranian revolutionary and a chieftain of the Bakhtiari Haft Lang tribe. Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari (1874–1937) Iranian Lor Bakhtiari revolutionary and activist of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. A military commander. Hossein Gholi Khan Ilkhani (1821–1882) Iranian nobleman.
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 finds.
The ethnonym Alān is a dialectal variant of the Old Iranian *Aryāna, itself derived from the root arya-, meaning 'Aryan', the common self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 1 ] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a ...
Qashqai people[a] (pronounced [ɢæʃɢɒːˈjiː]; Persian: قشقایی; Kaşkayı in Turkish) are a Turkic tribal confederation in Iran. Almost all of them speak a Western Turkic (Oghuz) language known as the Qashqai language — which they call "Turkī" — as well as Persian (the national language of Iran) in formal use.
The Saka tribes remained mainly in the far-east, eventually spreading as far east as the Ordos Desert. [1] Ancient Iranian peoples spoke languages that were the ancestors of modern Iranian languages, these languages form a sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian sub-family, which is a branch of the family of the wider Indo-European languages. [1]
“Requiem for a Tribe” follows Hajar, a 55-year-old woman from southwestern Iran’s Bakhtiari tribe who is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon a nomadic lifestyle.
The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars Province in Iran. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. They are one of the five tribes of the larger Khamseh confederation. [2]: 1 The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri.
The Saka tribe of the Massagetae/ Tigraxaudā rose to power in the 8th to 7th centuries BC, when they migrated from the east into Central Asia, [53] from where they expelled the Scythians, another nomadic Iranian tribe to whom they were closely related, after which they came to occupy large areas of the region beginning in the 6th century BC. [42]