The Median Cyaxares had also recently taken advantage of the anarchy in the Assyrian Empire to free the Iranic peoples, the Medes and Persians, from Assyrian rule.

The original homeland of the Kassites is not well known, but appears to have been located in the Zagros Mountains in Lorestan in what is now modern Iran, although, like the Elamites, Gutians and Manneans, they were unrelated to the later Indo-European / Iranic Medes and Persians who came to dominate the region a thousand years later .< ref >

By the 820s BC they had expanded to become the first large state to occupy this region since the Gutians, later followed by the unrelated Iranic peoples, the Medes and the Persians.

King Ahsheri's successor, Ualli, as a vassal of Assyria, took the side of the Assyrians against the Iranic Medes ( Madai ), who were at this point still based to the east along the southwest shore of the Caspian Sea and revolting against Assyrian domination.

He consolidated the gains made by his father over the neo Hittites, Babylonians and Arameans, and successfully campaigned in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, subjugating the newly arrived Iranic peoples of the area, the Persians and Medes, during his brief reign.

The term does not necessarily designate ethnic Persians, but has also been applied to those societies that may not have been ethnically Persian or Iranic, but whose linguistic, material, or artistic cultural activities were influenced by, or based on Persianate culture.

The first, more popularly supported, theory roughly follows Herodotus ' ( third ) account, stating that the Scythians were an Iranic group who arrived from Inner Asia, i. e. from the area of Turkestan and western Siberia.

Unlike her Indian cognante Saraswati ( the Sanskrit version of the Avestan word Harauhuti both words meaning the Indus River ), who was to the Indians, a goddess, Hariti to the Iranic Gandharans was originally a cannibalistic daeva or demon.

Moses of Kalankatuyk and other ancient sources explain Arran or Arhan as the name of the legendary founder of Caucasian Albania ( Aghvan ) or even as the Iranic tribe known as Alans ( Alani ), who in some versions was son of Noah's son Yafet ( Japheth ).

According to some legends and ancient sources, such as Movses Kagankatvatsi, ( Albanian ) Arran or Arhan was the name of the legendary founder of Caucasian Albania, who in some versions was son of Noah's son Yafet ( Japheth ) and also, possibly the eponym of the ancient Caucasian Albanians ( Aghvan ), and / or the Iranic tribe known as Alans ( Alani ).

Mannae was overrun by a people who were called Matiani or Matieni, an Iranic people variously identified as Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, or Cimmerian.

Another theory is that Kinnars are not the Indo Aryans but the extension of Darads who were spread on the high mountains of western Himalayas, who belong to the Iranic stock.

Tomyris, from the Persian تهم ‌ رییش Tahm-Rayiš, was a queen who reigned over the Massagetae, a pastoral-nomadic Iranic people of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in approximately 530 BC.

* According to the second theory, Semnan was an ancient civil establishment by the Scythians, an Iranic people who named their settlement Sakanān.

Some of the Uzbeks share more similarities with Kipchak groups like the Karakalpak and Kazakhs, or with the Iranic Tajiks, than with fellow Uzbeks who speak a descendant of the Karluk language.

It is possible that the miscegenation mentioned by Tacitus had, by the 3rd century, resulted in the Bastarnae becoming assimilated by the Sarmatians, perhaps adopting their tongue ( which belonged to the Iranic group of Indo-European languages ) and / or Sarmatian customs.

Hārīti though Iranic in origin, has also been linked ( falsely ), to the Greek goddess Tyche by Eurocentrist historians.

Norouz ( the first day of the Iranic New Year and the national festival of the Iranic peoples ) and other festive occasions have been accompanied by dap in Sassanid periods ( 224 A. D .-651 A. D .).

These newly arrived Iranic peoples were largely regarded as vassals of the Neo-Assyrian Empire until the late 7th Century BC.

Elam, already largely destroyed and subjugated by Assyria, thus became easy prey for the Median dominated Iranic peoples, and was incorporated into the Median Empire.

People of Nepal still retain Khasa language which still have Iranic elements but is largely influenced by Tibeto-Burmese languages ( e. g. Magar ) and Sanskrit language.

After the Arab Islamic conquest of the region in the 7th Century AD, Arameans gradually became a minority in their homelands, the language was gradually replaced by Arabic, as ever increasing numbers of Arabs, ( together with Turkic and Iranic peoples ) began to move into the region.

Although the limitanei were a militia of sorts and perhaps looked down upon by the rest of the more discliplined Roman legions, they were nonetheless a fairly well equipped and trained, division of infantry for their time, especially in relation to other standing armies of the day fielded by Rome's Germanic, Celtic, Iranic, and Eastern neighbours, collectively referred to as Barbarians by the Romans themselves.

The people of the modern country of Azerbaijan are believed to be inheritors of various ancient civilizations and peoples, including the indigenous Caucasian Albanians, Iranic tribes such as Scythians and Alans, and the later arrival of Oghuz Turks, among others ( note that several modern peoples of the Caucasus can trace their ancestries to more than one of these same ancient peoples ).

So after the arrival of Buddhism in Gandhara, Hariti is transformed from an Iranic demon to the Buddhist figure of easy birthing as well as that of protection and parenting of children.

And so the legend of Hariti, though originally Iranic in origin, became incorporated in to Buddhist lore after the arrival of Buddhism to Bactria, and with it, spread to the far reaches of east Asian lands such as Japan ; a country where the Gandharan Hariti is today known as Kishimojin.

During pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Central Asia was a predominantly Iranian region that included the sedentary Eastern Iranic speaking Bactrians, Sogdians and Chorasmians, and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Alans.

The Baloch people mainly speak Balochi, which is a branch of the Iranian languages, and more specifically of the Northwestern Iranian languages, that is Kurdish and other Iranic languages of the region.

Greek and Latin texts suggest that the term Scythians referred to Iranic tribes from the much more extensive region of Scythia, which included parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The Ossetians (, ) are an Iranic ethnic group of the Caucasus Mountains, indigenous to the region known as Ossetia.

Subsequently the Iranic ruling class was replaced by Turks in the 10th century A. D, and the region gradually tuned into an area with a majority of Turkic speakers.

The Arab population has established itself in Khuzestan mainly through the last 5 centuries of migration from neighbouring regions of Iraq well after the establishment of Iranic elements in the region.

They are thought to have retained Zoroastrianism, being of Iranic extraction themselves.

* The rulers of the Parthian Empire, merging Iranic and Greek culture described themselves as philhellenes

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

" There are a great number of rivers and mountains carrying a variety of this name all over where the ancient and modern Iranic peoples have settled, from the Pamirs to Anatolia and the Levant.

More likely though, the alteration in the story of Hariti and her successful conversion to Buddhism seems to be an early strategy with which to convert the predominantly Iranic Gandharans from Zoroastrianism, and Animism to Buddhism.

The Ossetians descend from the Alans, a Sarmatian tribe ( Scythian subgroup of the Iranic ethnolinguistic group ).

Another view is that the Iranic compound stands for " lowland " from kh ( w ) ar " low " and zam " earth, land .".

The name Dniester derives from Iranic Sarmatian Dānu nazdya " the close river.

" The Dnieper River also derives from the same Sarmatian Iranic meaning, " the river on the far side.

# Some may derive from other little-known ancient languages at some time spoken in Dacia or Moesia: for example, the Iranic Sarmatian, or the Turkic Avar, Bulgar or Cuman languages, or, conceivably, some unknown pre-Indo-European language ( s ) of the Carpathians or Balkans.

While it does contain many similar words as the Iranic Baloch language, it also has many loan words from Indo-Aryan languages as well as the Dravidian words of its own.

The Sakas were an Iranic people that wandered from the north side of the Black Sea through Derbend passage and to the South Caucasus and from there to Asia Minor in the 7th century B. C.

Some of the largest groups were the Proto-Indo-Aryans, of which Sindhis and Punjabis descend from and later Iranic peoples which the Baloch and Pashtuns descend from.

It takes its name from the local salt mines ( in Persian: نمک ‌ کان namak kan ).. Namangan, like other cities of the Fergana valley was originally populated by the Soghdian Iranic people, to later become Persian / Tajik speaking city.