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The Indigenous minority peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East of Russia (Russian: коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока, romanized: korennye malochislennye narody Severa, Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka) is a Russian census classification of local Indigenous peoples, assigned to groups with fewer than 50,000 ...
There are two main stories about the origins of the Shirazi people. One thesis based on oral tradition and some written sources (ie: the Kilwa Chronicle) states that immigrants from the Shiraz region in southwestern Iran directly settled various mainland ports and islands on the eastern Africa seaboard beginning in the tenth century, in an area between Zanzibar in the north and Sofala in the ...
The word Barzakh can also refer to a person. Chronologically between Jesus and Mohammad is the contested Prophet Khalid. Ibn Arabi considers this man to be a Barzakh, meaning a Perfect Human Being. Chittick explains that the Perfect Human acts as the Barzakh or "isthmus" between God and the world. [28]
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia. [1] ...
Fars province (Persian: استان فارس; / f ɑːr s /) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.Its capital is the city of Shiraz. [11]The province has an area of 122,400 km 2 and is located in Iran's southwest, in Region 2.
Actual idealism; Aestheticization of politics; Anti-communism; Anti-intellectualism; Anti-materialism; Anti-pacifism; Authoritarianism; Chauvinism; Class collaboration
The sedentary people of pre-Islamic Eastern Arabia were mainly Aramaic, Arabic and to some degree Persian speakers while Syriac functioned as a liturgical language. [5] [6] In pre-Islamic times, the population of Eastern Arabia consisted of Christianized Arabs (including Abd al-Qays), Aramean Christians, Persian-speaking Zoroastrians [7] and Jewish agriculturalists.