Posted by Iranian on August 16, 2006, 12:35 am Herodotus
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How can you separate Iranians and Persians. The nation was called Arran then changed to Parsa which the Greeks called it Persia and then Reza Shah called it Iran.
All the people are of the Iranian tribes that came from the north that migrated during the ice age 8500 years ago moved south ward around the Caspian Sea and down the, Iranian tribes did split into three tribes. One stayed in Iran, second moved to India and the third moving back to Russia and Europe.
Need more details where Iranians are from not sure where you are from but we have nothing to do with Turks or Mongols at any time and Mongol bastards came and left then the Arab invasion the Tartar left over bastards came and the Arabs used them and no stinking Turk existed because the Mongols had already devastated them before Tamugin got all the Mongols to unite, Tartars came much later and they came in small groups and kept on coming and helping the Arab Tazzi dogs then they killed the Arab sag and took over with brutality.
The Alans or Alani (occasionally but more rarely termed Alauni or Halani) were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of varied backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and to a large extent shared a common culture.
Herodotus (4.21) in the 5th century BC placed the Sarmatians of which he knew on the eastern boundary of Scythia beyond the Tanais (Don) on a treeless steppe. Those Sarmatians, being in the early Iranian range of south Russia, were probably Iranian people akin to the Scythians/Saka. The numerous Iranian personal names in the Greek inscriptions from the Black Sea Coast indicate that the Sarmatians there spoke a north-eastern Iranian dialect related to Sogdian and Ossetic.
Herodotus (4.110-117) reports a tale of the origin of the Sauromatae (Sauromates in the Greek of Herodotus), as the descendants of a band of young Scythian men and a group of Amazons. Herodotus' account, in a way, explains the origins of the Sarmatians' north-eastern Iranian language (as an impure form of Scythian). Moreover, it explains the unusual freedoms of Sauromatae women, including participation in warfare, which is deemed as an inheritance from their Amazon ancestors. Later writers call some of them the "woman-ruled Sarmatae" (γυναικοκρατούμενοι). Hippocrates (De Aere, etc., 24) classes them as Scythian.
Herodotus describes the Sarmatians' physical appearance as blond, stout and tanned; in short, pretty much as the Scythians and Thracians were seen by the other classical authors.
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