Aryan
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"Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). The earliest Aryan people were essentially a people of the voice. The recitation seems to have predominated even in those ceremonial and dramatic dances and that “dressing-up” which among most human races have also served for the transmission of tradition." --The Outline of History (1920) by H. G. Wells |
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Aryan or Arya is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan'. In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta ('abode of the Aryas'), where the Indo-Aryan culture emerged.
See also
- Airyanem Vaejah, mythological homeland of the early Iranians, it means expanse of the Aryans
- Alans, an Iranian people and ancestors of Ossetians, their name comes from word of Aryan
- Aria, province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian Empires
- Ariana, Greco-Roman geographical term, synonym of Iran
- Arya Samaj, considered a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement, their name means "Noble, i.e Aryan, Society"
- Graeco-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan peoples, speakers of Indo-Aryan languages, they historically themselves calls as Aryans
- Iran, literally means "land of Aryans"
- Eranshahr, official name of Sasanian Empire, literally means "Land/Empire of Iranians"
- Iranian peoples, speakers of Iranian languages, they historically themselves calls as Aryans
- Yamnaya culture
