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	Iransaga - Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
		Therefore, in the collective memory of the Iranian peoples, their history was mixed with legends and myths in order to revive the past in a new appearance not manifestly incompatible with the faith of the conquerors.
		Therefore, in a study of the mythical character of a hero like Rostam, the relation between the people and their hero is as important as the hero's devotion to his duty, which, in its turn is perceived and determined by the people, i.e.
		Therefore, the epic narratives were primarily prevalent among and developed by the ordinary people who gathered round and listened to the gosans (minstrels), and also by the aristocratic dehgans, who had remained away from the effects of urban life and the influences of the Sassanian court.
	www.art-arena.com /fs.htm (1654 words)

	Iranian peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Iranian peoples populated the Iranian plateau (for example Medes, Persians, Bactrians, and Parthians), and the steppes north of the Black Sea (for example Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans) by the 1st millennium BCE.
		Iranian cultural influences have also been significant in Central Asia where Turkic invaders are believed to have largely mixed with native Iranian peoples of which only the Tajik remain, in terms of language usage.
		The Iranian Peoples of the Caucasus, Routledge Curzon
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_peoples (2909 words)

	BRITNTEX-Day Trading Online
		As Iranian peoples are not confined to the borders of the current state of Iran, the term Iranic peoples is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the citizens of Iran.
		The Iranian peoples have played an important role throughout history: the Achaemenid Persians established one of the world's first multi-national states and the Scythian-Sarmatian nomads dominated the vast expanses of Russia and western Siberia for centuries with a group of Sarmatian warrior women possibly being the inspiration for the Greek legend of the Amazons.
		Iranian cultural influences have also been significant in Central Asia, where Turkic invaders are believed to have largely mixed with native Iranian peoples of which only the Tajik remain, in terms of language usage.
	www.britntex.com /index.php?q=Iran (4995 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical ...
		Although the Iranian tongues, being Indo-European, are distinct from the Altaic Turkic dialects, the speakers themselves have often been less easy to distinguish, since their shared history has provided them with many shared traits, ideas, and ways of life.
		Ancient Iranian cosmology, with its numerology based on the number seven, may be the precedent for later evolutions in Greek philosophy and in Jewish, Christian and Muslim mysticism.
		Under the rule of their fellow Iranian peoples the Parthian and the Sasanians, Sogdian merchants moved easily in the Iranian lands to the west, where some of them were won over to the Christian message (especially in its Nestorian form), just as others active in the former Kushan lands had embraced Buddhism.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/interactions/foltz.html (6033 words)

	iranian.com: Hamid Karimi, Interview with Azadeh Hariri, an Iranian American philanthropist
		Ehsan Yarshater is an iconic figure by all measures; he is perhaps the foremost expert in Iranian history, language and culture and with a steely resolve has set out to accomplish a grand task: to scholarly document the facts of history, language andcivilization of Iranian peoples through multi-disciplinary reference work and research in Encyclopedia Iranica.
		This is a stewardship project worthy of pride and generous support of all who are either Iranian by ethnicity, were influenced by its profound culture, or pursue a balanced, accurate account of its history and for that matter, the history of all civilizations.
		People who are interested in our work or whovalue the dissemination of information about Persian culture have been a great source of support for us by organizing gala benefit dinners, offering donations and holding auctions and special events.
	www.iranian.com /Karimi/2006/April/Yarshater/index.html (3872 words)

	Iranian People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ossetians Iranian peoples and their language is Aryan.
		the Iranian peoples are a group of peoples speaking Iranian languages, descending from ancient Aryan tribes, and inhabiting a part of Central Asia on and near the Iranian plateau.
		An Iranian was called Persian in the English language prior to 1936, but the people of Iran has always used the name Iranian for themselves from the ancient times onward.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/105/iranian-people.html (595 words)

	Category:Iranian peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A core group of Iranian peoples exist, while other groups are either assumed to be putatively descended from them or have some unknown affiliation.
		Some of these groups, such as the Mountain Jews and the Hazara, are either entirely or predominantly descended from non-Iranian peoples.
		The ancient tribes affiliated with Iranian peoples vary in terms of what is known about their background, while modern groups are defined by their linguistic affiliation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Iranian_peoples (159 words)

	Persian-Iranian Parade 2006 (1385/2565) In New York City Set A New Milestone
		It displayed the historical role the Iranians (Persians) have played in the advancement of human civilization from as far back as 5,000 years ago, and also showcased the more contemporary face of Iran and the multifaceted contributions of Iranian Americans in particular, to the betterment of life in the US and the world.
		Iranian (from the Satem branch of the Indo-European), Medean and Persian tribes had settled in the Iranian plateau as late as the eleventh century BCE.
		According to the US census and other independent think tanks, the Americans of Iranian ancestry are among the most educated and the most affluent communities in the US, and have substantially contributed to the US economy in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and thus immeasurably to the US quality of life.
	www.payvand.com /news/06/mar/1209.html (1824 words)

	Articles - Iranian peoples (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Having descended from the Aryans (Proto-Indo-Iranians), the ancient Iranian peoples were separated from the Indo-Aryans in the early 2nd millennium BC [5].
		Ancient Iranian peoples populated the Iranian plateau (Medes, Persians, Parthians), and the steppes north of the Black Sea (Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans) from the early 1st millennium BC.
		Although most of the Iranian peoples are found in the Iranian plateau region, many are also found in the periphery, ranging from the Caucasus and Turkey to the Indus and western China.
	www.pointgathering.com /articles/Iranian_peoples (1089 words)

	Iranian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the...
		The Iranian peoples are a collection of ethnic groups, defined along linguistic lines as speaking Iranian languages.
		The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian mainy spoken by the Iranian Peoples.
	encarta.msn.com /Iranian.html (185 words)

	HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TATAR ROOTS
		Thus, there are various opinions on the time of the development of the Tatar people’s roots in the Volga and Urals: some attribute it to the 4 c., others to the 8 c., to the 9 c., to the 13 c., or to the 14 c.
		The study of the beginning and the process of formation of the Tatar people or its language-carrying components is further complicated by some scientists (mainly the official Finno-ugrian school which seeks to prove an Uralic origin of the Hungarians) trying to place the so-called Magna Hungaria (Great Hungary) in the Middle Volga and Urals.
		In North Iranian, Caspian, and Caucasus ethnonymy and toponymy, and also per Assyrian and other ancient Eastern written sources as far back as the 3rd millennium BC there were known people Udy, which correspond to Caspian Udy, later Udyns, Bodins, Budins [Yelnitskiy L.A., 1977, 4].
	www.hunmagyar.org /turan/tatar/tatar-origin.html (9947 words)

	Tajikistan - Historical Background (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tajik people came fully under Russian rule, after a series of military campaigns that began in the 1860s, at the end of the nineteenth century.
		Iranian (see Glossary) peoples, including ancestors of the modern Tajiks, have inhabited Central Asia since at least the earliest recorded history of the region, which began some 2,500 years ago.
		Contemporary Tajiks are the descendants of ancient Eastern Iranian inhabitants of Central Asia, in particular the Soghdians and the Bactrians, and possibly other groups, with an admixture of Western Iranian Persians (see Glossary) and non-Iranian peoples.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-13606.html (302 words)

	History of Iran: History of the Tudeh Party of Iran
		This decade witnessed the beginning of the guerrilla movement by the newly-formed Organisation of the Iranian Peoples' Fadaian Guerrillas and Organisation of the Peoples' Mojahedin of Iran and also the emergence and development of the underground organisation of the Tudeh Party of Iran called "Navid".
		The people armed struggle and resistance on 8th, 9th and 10th of Feb. inflicted the decisive and final blow to the regime of the Shah and put an end to the 2500 years of monarchy in Iran.
		In this election, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, one of the closest people to Ayatollah Khomeini was elected as the President of Iran.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/tudeh/tudeh_party03.php (1212 words)

	THE ORIGIN OF THE PRE- IMPERIAL IRANIAN PEOPLES
		This is by far the most important, and enduring designation given by the classical sources to the nomadic Iranians of the steppes; the name refers to the entire non-sedentary Iranians, both in the West, and in the East (the Saka).
		This modern Iranian nation, still provides a physical link between the Indo-Europeans of the East, and those of the West, that is, most people of Europe; such a romantic link, it will be remembered, had already been established thousands of years ago by their blond and blue-eyed ancestors.
		Iranians are credited with being probably the first people to recognise the concept of nationhood, and to assume a proper national identity, which incredibly, has survived until the present day as Iran.
	www.azargoshnasp.net /history/Scythians/scythioric.htm (1236 words)

	Tajikistan
		The Tajik people came fully under Russian rule, after a series of military campaigns that began in the 1860s, at the end of the nineteenth century.
		Iranian peoples, including ancestors of the modern Tajiks, have inhabited Central Asia since at least the earliest recorded history of the region, which began some 2,500 years ago.
		Until the twentieth century, people in the region used two types of distinction to identify themselves: way of life--either nomadic or sedentary--and place of residence.
	faculty.oxy.edu /richmond/dwa278/tajikistan.htm (7000 words)

	CHN \| News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iranian peoples (Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lurs, Tajiks, Baluchis, Bakhtiaris and Gilanis) as well as other peoples in the proximity (e.g., Armenians, Assyrians, Afghanis, Kazakhs and Kashmiris) all participate in the Norooz celebration.
		Iranian (from the Satem branch of the Indo-European), Medean and Persian tribes had settled in the Iranian plateau as late as the eleventh century BCE.
		According to the US census and other independent think tanks, the Americans of Iranian ancestry are among the most educated and the most affluent communities in the US, and have substantially contributed to the US economy in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and thus immeasurably to the US quality of life.
	heritage.chn.ir /en/Article/?id=95 (1234 words)

	Muslimedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Note that each of these categories are referred to as "peoples" rather than a single people, as none of them has an over-riding homogeneity that can justify their reduction to a single "people".
		Such a definition of Iranian nationhood and nation-statehood is wholly unfounded, as well as being contrary to the contemporary historic reality that throughout the Middle East and the Muslim world, people’s convictions, grievances, principles and divine commitments transcend the geopolitical infrastructure of nation-states by which we understand the Middle East.
		The most obvious and first hint of their resurgence was the gradual removal from the discourse of the Islamic Revolution and State of public references to the oppressed of the world and the larger Islamic Ummah; hence the once-common references to the mustad’afeen and millet-e-Islam have all but disappeared.
	www.muslimedia.com /ARCHIVES/abudharr04/abudharr173.htm (1545 words)

	Iranian Society :: University of Manchester
		Iranian women accounted for 33 percent of the workforce (out of 25 million people) Many Westerns believe Iranian women are oppressed just because they wear hijab, but they don't understand that hijab is part of traditional Iranian costume.
		Iranian politics are diametrical reversed to talibans or Osama bin Laden; Afghanistan and Iran were one step from war in late 90's.
		Iranians are notable for tolerance to Jews since their early history; significant among Cyrus deeds was his granting of permission to the Jews to return from their exile in Babylon to their native Israel to rebuild the Temple of Solomon.
	www.iraniansociety.co.uk (2864 words)

	Cause iof the Iranian Revolution
		The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the revolution of the Iranian people against the shah because they were dissatisfied with his government’s rule.
		What led up to the revolution was an amalgam of things, including the anger of the people at their mistreatment at the hands of the Shah to the rebellious words of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from 1963 to 1979, which were debasing the Shah even in the early sixties.
		During the late nineteen seventies the revolutionary acts of the Iranian’s against the Shah began to resettle around the Ayatolluh Khomeini, (Trescot par 7) who was leading from the exile that was imposed upon him by the Shah in 1964.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/02/curme/curme.htm (1503 words)

	Iranian Now-Ruz (New Year), the Nissanu and the 365 Day Year
		To investigate the origins of the Iranian Nowruz (literally New day, New Year), one is compelled to go back a great deal in time, well beyond 3000 years in fact.
		amongst the Iranian Magi of Soghdia, Transoxiana and Chorasmia.
		, in Iran and wherever Iranian peoples reside in the Caucasus (e.g.
	www.ghandchi.com /iranscope/Anthology/KavehFarrokh/farrokh8.htm (1807 words)

	Iran Heritage
		Nowruz was not only a seasonal and climactic renewal, but an occaision to renew the pledges of friendship, loyalty, camaraderie, and peace between peoples of all races in the ancient Persian Empire, both Iranian and non-Iranian.
		Much of Iranian culture and mythology has survived intact in Central Asia, despite the almost full takeover of the region by non-Iranian Turkic peoples by the 11th century AD.
		Despite the passage of over 2,500 years, the Iranian new year (Nowruz) continues to be commemorated every March 21st, in Iran and wherever Iranian peoples reside in the Caucasus (e.g.
	www.iran-heritage.org /interestgroups/nowruz365.htm (1957 words)

	[Infoshop News] Religious Fundamentalist Regimes: a lesson from the Iranian Revolution 1978-1979
		On the other hand, many religious working class peoples who have borne the brunt of these wars - especially when driven by US imperialism as in Afghanistan - have succumbed to the false belief that they are being protected by their domestic theocratic (religious state) regimes.
		In mid-February, there was an insurrection,with air force cadets joining with guerrilla forces - the leftist Organisation of Iranian Peoples' Fedai Guerrillas, or Fedayeen, and the nationalist Mujahedeen - in over-running the military academy, army bases, the parliament, factories, armouries and the TV station.
		Khomeini founded the fundamentalist Iranian Republican Party (IRP) to squeeze opposition parties out of the provisional government and at the same time established the Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran), a political police force to marginalise the secular left within the komitehs which it wanted to mobilise as a supporter bloc.
	flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2002-May/001028.html (1665 words)

	Iran, Iranian Peoples of \| www.30-days.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eleven million people are from an Azeri background; they live mostly south and west of the Caspian Sea.
		Other significant people groups include the Kurds in the northwest (5 million) and the Baluch in the southeast (623,000).
		Another important element of Iranian society is that two-thirds of Iran's 70 million people today are under 30 years of age, and half are under 20 years.
	www.30-days.net /email03/day26.htm (519 words)

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