Scythians

i dont have a turkish complex, i have a pan turkish complex.

its the same with germans, i dont have a anything against germans, but i have hate against nazi's.

anyway, im still wondering why those 9 people would vote turkic without posting evidence. but o well....

Mentioning scytians as turks is ridicolous as mentioning safavids as persians

You are calling allpeople in Iran geography as Iranian. Maybe you are considering armenians as Iranian to.

but Samanids are Iranian not Safavids read carefully

Originally posted by Evrenosgazi You are calling allpeople in Iran geography as Iranian. Maybe you are considering armenians as Iranian to. but Samanids are Iranian not Safavids read carefully

they are iranian. iran is made up of many different ethnic groups, like the USA for example.

i dont understand why you dont get that...

Originally posted by Evrenosgazi You are calling allpeople in Iran geography as Iranian. Maybe you are considering armenians as Iranian to. but Samanids are Iranian not Safavids read carefully

Safavid were Iranian, not persian. They were turkic by ethnicity and Iranian by nationality.

And for sure we consider Armenians who live in Iran as Iranians. We are open minded people and have no probleme with ethnic groups in Iran. So we would accept everyone who lives in Iran as Iranians, even if they are Japanes or African or whatever.

Edited by Maziar

I've been to all over Central Asia; at least two destinations every year. Note my mother's side come from Kazakstan. It's too easy to travel among CA nations here. There are lots of people like me who have been to different countries of Central Asia. Central Asia seems like kind of a united region. You can't understand the situation...

Originally posted by gok_toruk Your people have been lost for almost a thousand years...

lost a thousand years of what? im confused. i believe the whole region, even your precious ottoman empire, safavids, etc... all spoke persian (the cultural language of the ottoman empire was persian), all took in persian culture, and to this day, have more iranian culture in them than they want to admit.

just keep listening to your propaganda, while i live in the real world.

there were only 2 times in history when iran wasnt labled persia, that was under the greeks, and under the arabs. all other times it was iran and persia.

Originally posted by gok_toruk    Turks & Mongols spoke Farsi as their official language? If this is the real world, I prefer to dream in my imaginary land...

please tell me, what do they teach you turkmenistan?

anyway, this thread is done, its 26 to 9, i think people have expressed their beliefs.

there is no more point in arguing.

Edited by prsn41ife

From what I have seen on internet sights the Schythians were located in the Altai Mt. range (CA) and north of the Caspian and in present day Ukraine. Most research points to Scythians being Aryan. Steppe tactics were useds like other nomads.

How did this thread get so off topic? Looks like a few nationalists like to usurp this thread and stake their claims.  I'm still trying to figure out that purpose and why this topic has drifted. If it makes a few happy that certain tribes made a pit stop in Iran and now they are forever indebted to Iranian culture and people then so be it. Since the wanderers and immigrated also spoke different languages back then too lets accept that as well.

Another point. Any country could call their people their own even though they are made up of different stock. Such a universal concept! This is not specific to Iran only. So lets get behind such proud nationalistic claims and evaluate the ethnicity of various elements. Is this really so hard to do?

Better yet. All interested parties should discuss ethnicities of central asia and Iran in another thread. This one is suppose to be about Scythians.

Edited by Seko

Closed.