Ancient Iranian peoples
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Ancient Iranian peoples were:
- Persians
- Medes
- Parthians
- Parni
- Scythians
- Sarmatians, including the Rhoxolani, Iazyges, Amazons, Siraces, and some regard the Alans as a subset of the Sarmatians as well
- Bactrians
- Khwarezmians
- Alans
- Saka
- Sogdians
- Azaris
- Massagetae
- Pallavas, descended from Persian invaders of India
- Indo-Scythians
- Cimmerians (ethnicity as Iranians specifically unknown)
- Sigynnae (uncertain, known only by obscure reports)
- Kambojas
Literature
- H. Bailey, "ARYA: Philology of ethnic epithet of Iranian people", in Encyclopaedia Iranica, v, pp. 681-683, Online-Edition, [Link]
- A. Shapur Shahbazi, "Iraj: the eponymous hero of the Iranians in their traditional history" in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online-Edition, [Link]
- R. Curzon, "The Iranian Peoples of the Caucasus", ISBN 0700706496
- Jahanshah Derakhshani, "Die Arier in den nahöstlichen Quellen des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr.", 2nd edition, 1999, ISBN 964-90368-6-5
- Richard Frye, "Persia", Zurich, 1963
See also
- Iranian peoples
- Iranian languages
- Demographics of Iran
- Demographics of Afghanistan
- Demographics of Tajikistan
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