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Nazi racial theories considered the "purest stock of Aryans" the Nordic people, identified by physical anthropological features such as tallness, white skin, blue eyes, narrow and straight noses, doliocephalic skulls, prominent chins, and blond hair, including Scandinavians, Germans, English and French, [95] [96] with Nordic and Germanic people ...
The majority of the population of Iran (approximately 80%) consists of Iranian peoples. [1] The largest groups in this category include Persians, mostly referred to as Fars (who form 61% of the Iranian population) and Kurds (who form 10% of the Iranian population), with other communities including Semnanis, Khorasani Kurds, Larestanis, Khorasani Balochs, Gilakis, Laks, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats ...
Alans, an Iranian people and ancestors of Ossetians, their name comes from the word Aryan; Aria, province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian Empires; Ariana, Greco-Roman geographical term, synonym of Iran; Arya Samaj, considered a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement, their name means "Noble, i.e Aryan, Society" Graeco-Aryan
For the Nazis, in the beginning there were two types of Aryans: one was predominantly red or blonde haired and blue-eyed (Germanic Aryans); while the other was predominantly dark eyed and dark haired (Mediterranean Aryans). Blond, red hair, and dark hair were common among both kind of Aryans but one predominated over the other.
Animism, ancestor worship, and Indo-Iranian religion [ edit ] While the majority of the Kalash have converted to Islam, minority of the Kalash people have remained following their traditional Kalasha religion, which is a form of animism and ancestor worship [ a ] mixed with elements from ancient Indo-Iranian religion and mythology.
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According to Hiebert, an expansion of the BMAC into Iran and the margin of the Indus Valley is "the best candidate for an archaeological correlate of the introduction of Indo-Iranian speakers to Iran and South Asia", [61] despite the absence of the characteristic timber graves of the steppe in the Near East, [62] or south of the region between ...
This is a list of Iranian women, of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both women born in Iran and women that are of the Iranian diaspora. Nobel laureates