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Russians in Iran (Persia) have a long history dating back many centuries, [3] [4] all the way to the Middle Ages with the Caspian expeditions of the Rus', and later on the Russo-Persian War in the 18th century, when the Russian Empire temporarily occupied the Caspian regions of Tabaristan and Astarabad for a decade.
Religion in Iran has been shaped by multiple religions and sects over the course of the country's history. Zoroastrianism was the main followed religion during the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), Parthian Empire (247 BC-224 AD), and Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD). Another Iranian religion known as Manichaeanism was present in Iran during this period.
Blagovery (Russian: Благоверие, Blagoverie; literally "Good Faith") or Russian Zoroastrianism is a branch of Zoroastrianism practised in Russia. It emerged in the 1990s under the influence of Pavel P. Globa, in Saint Petersburg , as an independent movement from usually endogamous Iranian Zoroastrians. [ 1 ]
The Ossetians (/ ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ə n z / oss-EE-shənz or / ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ən z / oss-ET-ee-ənz; [26] Ossetic: ир, ирæттæ / дигорӕ, дигорӕнттӕ, romanized: ir, irættæ / digoræ, digorænttæ), [27] also known as Ossetes (/ ˈ ɒ s iː t s / OSS-eets), [28] Ossets (/ ˈ ɒ s ɪ t s / OSS-its), [29] and Alans (/ ˈ æ l ə n z / AL-ənz), are an Iranian [30] [31] [32 ...
St. Basil's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow is a World Heritage Site.. Orthodox Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Russia, with significant minorities of non-religious people and adherents of other faiths.
International Review of Social History. 48 (3). Cambridge University Press: 401– 426. doi: 10.1017/S0020859003001135. JSTOR 44582777. S2CID 143195687. "v. IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES" Touraj Atabaki. The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran I.B.Tauris, 15 ...
The Iranian religions, also known as the Persian religions, are, in the context of comparative religion, a grouping of religious movements that originated in the Iranian plateau, which accounts for the bulk of what is called "Greater Iran".
Zoroastrianism, a form of the ancient Iranian religion that is still practiced by some communities, [116] was later developed and spread to nearly all of the Iranian peoples living in the Iranian Plateau. Other religions that had their origins in the Iranian world were Mithraism, Manichaeism, and Mazdakism, among others. The various religions ...