The Iranian Origin of Croats - Philology

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t is unfortunate that Dr. Sahib Singh Verma, Union Labour Minister, was not allowed to attend the recent World Jat Conference in Belgrade ("Sahib Singh wanted to visit Serbia to meet fellow Jats, PM put his foot down and spiked his bonding-in-Belgrade plans", Indian Express, 21/9/2003). Sad indeed, because there actually do exist strong connections between Jats, Serbs and Croats. Several historians view these communities as sharing a common ethnic origin as is evident from a study of the following submissions.

Philology: Croats as Hrvatis
Let us commence our investigation with the Croats. The science of linguistics provides several connections with Iran. Thus, the Croats of Croatia call themselves "Hrvati" and their country "Hrvatska", whence the Croatian domain name on the internet is .hr. The name "Hrvati" is derived from the Avestan province "Harahvaiti" (Greek: "Arachosia"). The scientific philological argument for the identification of the Croats with the Haravatis is given in (Sakac 1955, pp. 33-36; Sakac 1949, 1937) As Dvornik notes, "P.S.Sakac thinks that he discovered the name 'Croats' in Darius' inscriptions from the sixth century B.C. There an old Persian province and people are mentioned, called Harahvaitai, Harahvatis, Horohoati..." (Dvornik 1956, p.26) Further, the Roman leader Ammanius Marcellinus mentioned that two cities arose in ancient Persia called Habroatis and Chroates. In this regard, Prof. Mandic writes, "The Croats of the Don, then had to come in ancient times from Iran. On a stone inscription of the King Darius (522-486 B.C.) the nation of the Haruavat-is appears among the 23 subject nations. The Persian sacred books of the Avesti (Vendidad) call that nation the Harahvaiti. The provinces settled by that nation encompassed in those times the southern half of modern south Afghanistan, the whole of Baluchistan and the eastern part of modern Iran. In that ancient province ought we to look for the paleo-fatherland of the modern Croats." (Mandic 1970, Chapter 1)

Furthermore, the name of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, is related to the Zagros mountain range of Iran. The Dinara mountains in Dalmatia and the Dinar currency may be connected to Mount Dinar (Dene) of Iran. The name Serbia is similar to the Seropi or Surappi River in Elam. Moreover, certain authorities note that the name of the Carpathian mountains is derived from Croatia: "Here the Iranian Croats mingled with the numerous local Slavic tribes and adopted the Slavic language from them. Meanwhile after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire the Croats organized the local Slavs into a state and gave them their national name. Before the invasion of the Avars ca. 560 the White or Western Croats created along with the Antes a great state extending north of the Carpathians from the upper Elbe to the upper Dniester. (35: Niederle, 263-266; Dvornik, The Slavs, 277-297) R. Heinzel is of the opinion that the Carpathians of the old Germanic Hervarsaga took their name from the Croats who called them the Harvate mountains i.e. Croatian mountains. (36: Heinzel, 499; Dvornik, op. cit., 284, sq.)" (Mandic 1970, Ch.1)

Indeed, philologists trace the migration of the Croats from Harahvati (Arachosia, Sarasvati) in the following manner using fossil place-names along the path of migration: * Harahvaiti and Harauvati in Iran and Afghanistan * Hurravat and Hurrvuhe in Armenia and Georgia * Horoouathos in Azova and the Black Sea * Present day Croats Horvati and Hrvati along the Adriatic

It is important to note that the Avesta - the sacred scriptures of the ancient Aryan Zoroastrians - mentions the lands settled by the Iranic peoples. Hapta-Hindawa (ie. the Punjab, "Sapta-Sindhu" in Prakrit) is mentioned in the Avesta amongst the Irano-Aryan lands. Even today, the Punjab is the primary home of the Jats. Since the Croats are named after the Harahvaiti or Sarasvati River, and the Jats are the present-day inhabitants of the lost Harahvaiti, it would appear that Jats and Croats would be very closely related indeed.

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[abha1844]

Very interesting. I'm a white blue eyed Persian with light brown hair of pure Zoroastrian Persian lineage (no Arab influence) and most people think I'm not Persian. When I spent time in the Balkans most people assumed I was a Croat and I've certainly never come across a group of people who look so similar. Long lost cousins found at last!? Hehe :) All the world is one anyway so I don't care. Interesting though.

[MeshugenahScientist]

@seasonedsevencolors

Damn fools jumping around like demented chimpanzees and claiming to be "Aryan".

[LibertarianPersian]

@abha1844 Real Persian doesn't have blue eyes, the one who are blue-eyed are some mixed inbred shit like yourself.

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

@checkeriran

you are right of course and many other persian poets from bactria and herat migrated to north, east, south etc so that today we only can speaculate that their roots are from bactria and herat like abdolrahman dschami, but his name says he was from dscham though :))

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

@checkeriran

many of the so called indo-european languages exist becouse of the persian language but those people now want to destroy our beutiful language so that they can claim someday all persian words, i hope you understand what i mean :)

we should be proud of our language and we should know its the most beautiful language of the world!

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

@checkeriran

we are proud of the persian language and we should be proud of it,

those who are the enemies of our language were mostly influenced by our culture and language etc so that they know ther language or culture would not exist if there were no persians or persian language. this is the reason why they are so jealous and they cant see how safe our language and are proud of it :))

[checkeriran]

@TheAFGpersiangirlAFG i am iranian but i say espascialy iranians have to know molana and also ferdousi have been from herat and bactria, today afghanistan. the father of persian language would be today an afghan! and i am proud of it! NOTHING COULD SEPERATE US! AFGHANS AND IRANIANS ARE BOTH ARYAN! PERSIAN!!!!!

[TheAFGpersiangirlAFG]

@checkeriran

you think i can say anything against your words? NO, becouse you are right!!

ARYANA :))

[checkeriran]

@TheAFGpersiangirlAFG bactria and herat are both aryan land. you as an afghan girl just remember that the old name of afghanistan and iran, that area was called aryana, the land of aryans! there is no diffrences between iranians today and afghans today who look like us. its called ARYANA!!!!

[checkeriran]

@abha1844 real persians dont look and never looked white and blue eyed you bastard! look at the real persian zoroastrians in india. they have never mied with other people. and by the way: iranians were under value for arab invaders, so they neve mixed, you bastard. go and sell your sister to white monkeys, its not important, because you are a bastard and not iranic. real iranic people have no blue eyes!

[CroAuslander]

Boli me kurac odakle smo, samo da se jebu dobre zene di god se stigne...bile to domace, ili strankinje...