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K. Jettmar, “Zur Wanderungsgeschichte der Iranier,” Die Wiener Schule der Völkerkunde/The Vienna School of Ethnology, Horn-Wien, 1956, pp. 327-48.

T. Cuyler Young, Jr., “The Iranian Migration into the Zagros,” Iran 5, 1967, pp. 11-34.

D. Stronach, “Achaemenid Village I at Susa and the Persian Migration to Fars,” Iraq 36, 1974, pp. 239-48.

R. Ghirshman, L’Iran et la migration des Indo-aryens et des Iraniens, Leiden, 1977.

I. V. P’yankov, “K voprosu o putyakh proniknoveniya iranoyazychnykh plemyon v Perednyuyu Aziyu (On the problem of the ways of penetration of Iranian tribes into western Asia),” Peredneaziĭskiĭ sbornik III, Moscow, 1979, pp. 193-207.

Ètnicheskiye problemy istorii Tsentral’noĭ Azii v drevnosti (II tysyacheletiye do n.è.)/Ethnic Problems of the History of Central Asia in the Early Period (Second Millennium B.C.), Moscow, 1981 (contains a number of important relev ant articles by linguists and archeologists, inter al. by M. S. Asimov, B. G. Gafurov, V. I. Abaev, E. E. Kuz’mina, B. A. Litvinskiĭ, È. A. Grantovskiĭ, B. and F. R. Allchin). For systematic, though outdated, treatment of the culture and homeland of the Proto-Aryans see F. Spiegel, Die arische Periode und ihre Zustände, Leipzig, 1887.

Also still useful are W. Geiger, Ostiranische Kultur im Altertum, Erlangen, 1882, and O. Schrader, “Aryan Religion,” in J. Hastings, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics II, 1909, pp. 11-57.

(R. Schmitt)

Originally Published: December 15, 1987

Last Updated: August 16, 2011

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ARYANS

Terminology :

1-Ethnic

2-Linguistic

3-Adolphe Pictet

4-Aryan Parent Language

5-Proto-Aryan

6-Vedic

7-Vedas

8-phonetic

9-Morphological

10-Mittani

11-Hurrian

12-Aristocratic

13-Fertile Crescent

14-P.Kretschmer

15-O.N.Trubachov

16- Dāsa

17-Dasyu

18-Soghdiana

19-Chorasmia

20-Bactria

21-R.Ghirshman

22-Karakum

23-Koppa Dāḡ

24-Medes

25-Persians

26-Margiana

27-Arachosia

28-Salmanasar III

29-Matai

30- Parsuaš

31- Pārsva

32- Pārsa

33-Tiglathpilser III

34-Sanherib

35-Assurbanipal

36-Elamite

37- Parsumaš

38- Anšan

39-Tall-e- Malīān

40-Andronovo

41- Gāθās

42-Rigveda

43-Rgvedasamhita

44-B.Schlerath

45-Pantheon

46-P.Thieme

47-T.Burrow

48-Octosyllabic

49-HendecaSyllabic