Bactria (Bâkhtriš): country in the south of oxus (Amu-Daria )northern Afghanistan, in Antiquity famous for its fierce warriors and its ancient religion, which was founded by the prophet Zarathustra...
Bactria (Bâkhtriš): country in the south of oxus (Amu-Daria )northern Afghanistan, in Antiquity famous for its fierce warriors and its ancient religion, which was founded by the prophet Zarathustra.
If there was ever a region that can be described with the old geographical cliché that it is a country of opposites, it must be Bactria. Situated between the Hindu Kush mountain range in the south and the river Oxus (Amudar'ya) in the north, it is essentially an east-west zone that consists of extremely fertile alluvial plains, a hot desert, and cold mountains.
Bactria (Bactriana, Bākhtar in Persian, also Bhalika in Arabic and Indian languages, and Ta-Hsia in Chinese) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus); its capital, Bactra or Balhika or Bokhdi (now Balkh), was located in what is now Afghanistan. It is a mountainous region with a moderate climate. Water is abundant and the land is very fertile. Bactria was the homeland of Aryan tribes who moved south-west into Iran and into North-Western India around 2500-2000 BC Later it became the north province of the Persian Empire in Central Asia.(Cotterell, 59) It was in these regions, where the fertile soil of the mountainous country is surrounded by the Turanian desert, that the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was said to have been born and gained his first adherents. Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was once called "old-iranic" which is related to Sanskrit. Today some scholars believe the Avestan-Language was the western dialect of the Sanskrit because both languages are the oldest Indo-Iranian language of Aryans we know. With the time the Avestan-Language became developed by own western style. Bactria was bounded on the south by the ancient region of Gandhara. The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family. Bactrian was completely assimilated by the Persian and later by Turkish language, which spread in Tocharistan. This process is believed to take place until the 12th century. Some Bactrians moved south, some north-west who saved partially thier languages
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Ýou asked me which turks in iran have been iraniazed ? According to to all hitory books 12 dynasties which ruld iran in the last 10 century were from turk or mongol origin a very few of them maybe were mixd with iranic people . 1- Seljuk Dynasty 2- Khwarezmian dynasty 3- II- Khanate 4- Muzafarids Dynasty 5-Chupanid dynasty 6-Jalayirid dynasty 7- Timurid Dynasty 8- Kara Koyunlu dynasty 9- Ak Koyunlu 10- Safavid Dynasty 11- Afsharid dynasty 12- Qajar Dynasty
what happend to descendants of these dynasties . are they not persianized ? the stranges thing i remark in your claims is that according to you there is not more turks in In turkey, caucasus , iran and Afghanistan you make them all iranic or some other indo-europeans. all turks are disappeard. everybody is iranic now :)
grecobactrian You said " hazras are mixed Mongols, but they speak Persian " then you say " so what " :) :) OMG Are you hearing yourself? Do you realize what for answers you give to my questions?:) Is that not iranification or persianization of mongols ? :) Why you never get to the point? :) your answers have nothing to do with my questions. Pls dont lecture me about who is who. things you are saying is not new for me :) pls get to the poin.
you dont have explain to me who hazra's are ? i know that they are mixed BUT in the name of god answer my questions. are they genetically iranic ? i know that you know that they are mixed but i never get a direct answer . you always say something else. since 2 days i'm writing to you but you didn't answer even 20% of questions. please read my comments and answer my questions . you dont need to explain thing that i allready know
grecobactrian i'm happy that you can admit at least in one case persianizetion of east iranians ( Bactrians sogdanians khorazmians). I'm have doen my researchs about ossetic pamiriian pushtu and yaghnobi languages they are close to west iranian languages but still they have their own pure east iranian elements . so pls dont extra lecture me about these langauges . I think we are going to the point.
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Which Turks in Iran have been Iranized?
According to to all hitory books 12 dynasties which ruld iran in the last 10 century were from turk or mongol origin a very few of them maybe were mixd with iranic people .
1- Seljuk Dynasty
2- Khwarezmian dynasty
3- II- Khanate
4- Muzafarids Dynasty
5-Chupanid dynasty
6-Jalayirid dynasty
7- Timurid Dynasty
8- Kara Koyunlu dynasty
9- Ak Koyunlu
10- Safavid Dynasty
11- Afsharid dynasty
12- Qajar Dynasty
the stranges thing i remark in your claims is that according to you there is not more turks in In turkey, caucasus , iran and Afghanistan you make them all iranic or some other indo-europeans.
all turks are disappeard. everybody is iranic now :)
You said " hazras are mixed Mongols, but they speak Persian " then you say " so what " :) :) OMG
Are you hearing yourself? Do you realize what for answers you give to my questions?:)
Is that not iranification or persianization of mongols ? :)
Why you never get to the point? :)
your answers have nothing to do with my questions.
Pls dont lecture me about who is who. things you are saying is not new for me :) pls get to the poin.
are they genetically iranic ? i know that you know that they are mixed but i never get a direct answer . you always say something else.
since 2 days i'm writing to you but you didn't answer even 20% of questions.
please read my comments and answer my questions . you dont need to explain thing that i allready know
i'm happy that you can admit at least in one case persianizetion of east iranians ( Bactrians sogdanians khorazmians).
I'm have doen my researchs about ossetic pamiriian pushtu and yaghnobi languages they are close to west iranian languages but still they have their own pure east iranian elements . so pls dont extra lecture me about these langauges .
I think we are going to the point.