Ancient Mesopotamia, Near East and Greater Iran: What does it mean?

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What does it mean?

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Topic: What does it mean?

Posted By: Spartakus
Subject: What does it mean?
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 13:33

Can you translate this phrase please?

GYAN-AVSPAR PESHMERGA.

I know they were cataphracts of the Sassanid Army during the 5th and 6th century.

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Posted By: Krum
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 14:11

GYAN-AVSPAR mean the Sacrificers of their lives in Pahlavi.They are also known colloquially as the Peshmerga.The Gyan-avspar should be a no nonsense combat unit. Chosen for their bravery rather than nobility or Family ties they do not have to impress men with their status, only their fighting ability.

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It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.
Plato

Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 14:39

Gyan means soul (Still gyan in Kurdish tongues and now jan in Persian)

avspar: horsemen

peeshmarg-ha: equivalent of immortal.

Peshmerga simply means prior-dyers. So they will die prior to their cause or their lord. Kurdish soldiers call themselves by this name still, though not many non-Iranian Kurds know what it means exactly.

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