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Iranians in Spain. (Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, and other languages of Iran). Iranians in Spain have a history going back for over a millennium and form a minor population in modern day. [3][4] They are a part of the Iranian diaspora.
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 ...
t. e. The Iranian peoples, [1] or the Iranic peoples, [2] are the collective ethno-linguistic groups [3] who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European language family.
The (late) Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of a common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, as spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans after the split-off of Anatolian and Tocharian. PIE was the first proposed proto-language to be widely accepted by linguists.
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: fataḥ al-andalus), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, [1] by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the destruction of the Christian Visigothic Kingdom of Spain and led to the ...
Etymology. The Ossetians and Ossetia received their name from the Russians, who adopted the Georgian designation Oseti (ოსეთი – note the personal pronoun), which means 'the land of the Osi'. Osi (ოსი, pl. Osebi, ოსები) has been used in Georgian since the Middle Ages to refer to the sole Iranian -speaking population ...
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. Map 10: Alan migrations in the context of the Migration Period.
Spain is a diverse country integrated by contrasting entities with varying economic and social structures, languages, and historical, political and cultural traditions. [1] [2] The Spanish constitution responds ambiguously to the claims of historic nationalities (such as the right of self-government) while proclaiming a common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards.