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Despite some popular belief, the Turanians of Shahnameh ( whose sources are based on Avesta and Pahlavi texts ) have no relationship with the ethno-liguistic group Turk today.

The Turanians of Shahnameh are an Iranian people representing Iranian nomads of the Eurasian Steppes and have no relationship to the culture of Turks.

Turan or Persian for the areas of Central Asia beyond the Oxus up to the 7th century ( where the story of the Shahnameh ends ) was generally an Iranian-speaking land.