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Map 6: Asia in 323 BC, showing several Iranian peoples located in Central Asia and Europe. Map 7: Scythian cultures of Scythian, Sarmatians and Saka Iranian peoples located in the Western Eurasian steppe (Central Asia and Europe) from ca. 900 BC - 200 AD Map 8: Dahae tribal confederation Map 9: Roxolani, Siraces and Aorsi in the 4th century BC.
The history of Iran's culture is marked by the influence of ancient civilizations such as the Elamites and Persians, as well as the Achaemenid and Sassanian empires. [10]The Arab conquest in the 7th century introduced Islamic traditions, which merged with pre-Islamic customs.
Iran suffered invasions by nomadic tribes during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period, negatively impacting the region. [17] Iran was reunified as an independent state in 1501 by the Safavid dynasty, which established Shia Islam as the empire's official religion, [18] marking a significant turning point in the history of Islam. [19]
There are also dozens of prehistoric sites across the Iranian plateau pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements in the fourth millennium BC, [9] One of the earliest civilizations in Iranian plateau was the Jiroft culture in southeastern Iran in the province of Kerman. It is one of the most artifact-rich archaeological ...
The ancient Persians were present in the region of Persis from about the 10th century BC. They became the rulers of the largest empire the world had yet seen under the Achaemenid dynasty which was established in the late 6th century BC, at its peak stretching from Thrace - Macedonia , Bulgaria - Paeonia and Eastern Europe proper in the west, to ...
The Achaemenid Empire borrows its name from the ancestor of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the empire, Achaemenes.The term Achaemenid means "of the family of the Achaemenis/Achaemenes" (Old Persian: ππ§π πΆπ΄π‘π, romanized: HaxΔmaniš; [24] a bahuvrihi compound translating to "having a friend's mind"). [25]
The Proto-Indo-Iranians are commonly identified with the descendants of the Indo-Europeans known as the Sintashta culture [20] and the subsequent Andronovo culture within the broader Andronovo horizon, and their homeland with an area of the Eurasian steppe that borders the Ural River on the west, the Tian Shan on the east (where the Indo ...
Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) Seifollah Kambakhshfard (1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita; Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran) Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and the Middle East