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The term "Aryan" was originally used as an ethnocultural self-designative identity and epithet of "noble" by Indo-Iranians and the authors of the oldest known religious texts of Rig Veda and Avesta within the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European language family—Sanskrit and Iranian, who lived in ancient India and Iran. [36]
Croats and Serbs: Some scholars suggest that the Slavic-speaking Serbs and Croats are descended from the ancient Sarmatians, [140] [141] an ancient Iranian people who once settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans, and that their ethnonyms are of Iranian origin.
This can be seen above all in the emergence of Persian ایرانی (irâni, Iranian), as a back formation from ایران (irân, Iran). [57] Persian irâni, therefore, replaced the Pre-Islamic Arya and its derivatives as the ethnonym of the Iranian peoples and became the origin of English Iranian and its cognates in other Western languages.
The earliest recorded forms of these languages, Vedic Sanskrit and Gathic Avestan, are remarkably similar, descended from the common Proto-Indo-Iranian language. The origin and earliest relationship between the Nuristani languages and that of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan groups is not completely clear.
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 ...
The History of Costume by Braun & Scheider (1861–1880). The ancient Persians played a major role in the downfall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. [44] The Medes, another group of ancient Iranian people, unified the region under an empire centered in Media, which would become the region's leading cultural and political power of the time by 612 BC. [45]
Afro-Iranians (Persian: ایرانیان آفریقاییتبار) refers to Iranian people with significant black ancestry. Most Afro-Iranians are concentrated in the southern provinces of Iran , including Hormozgan , Sistan and Balochistan , Bushehr , Khuzestan , and Fars .
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