The history of Iran which was commonly known until the mid-20th century as Persia in the Western world is intertwined with the history of a larger region also to an extent known as Greater Iran comprising the area from Anatolia in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe in the north to the Persian Gulf and the.

Iranian names wiki. Chief of the Aryans. Proto-Iranian names given to individuals. Persians are the major ethnic group of Iran and make up.

The name Iran is first attested in the Avesta as airyānąm the text of which is composed in Avestan an old Iranian language spoken in the northeastern part of Greater Iran or in what are now Afghanistan Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Guardian of the Aryans.

The name Iran is from the same root as Aryan which until Hitler perverted it was just an ancient name for those arriving peoples. 2 The Hamas Government in Gaza is not officially recognized by the United Nations though is recognized as legitimate Palestinian entity by several states including Iran. It reappears in the Achaemenid period where the Elamite version of the Behistun Inscription twice mentions Ahura Mazda as nap harriyanam the god of the.

A character in Shahnameh Lohrasbs father Arvin. Name of Khashayars naval commander. 1 The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not officially recognized by the United Nations recognized only by Turkey.

Name of a mountain in ancient Iran. Given names by culture. The Iranian peoples or the Iranic peoples are a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group identified by their use of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities.

Aryan is the name that an ancient people of India and Iran gave to themselves. The Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia in the mid-2nd millennium BC. Definition from Wiktionary the free dictionary.