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Did Medes consider themselves Aryan as Persians did?

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Good question. I'm actually not really sure of this, but I think we can assume so. They were, after all, an Iranian people and we know that both the Achaemenids and Parthians recognized the existence of a broad Iranian culture not just limited to their own peoples. read more

Such is the account which they themselves give. Herodotus, who actually travelled extensively in the Persian Empire and was born in Persian-occupied Halicarnassus, seems to have spoken with a native, who informed him that the Medes had been called Aryans previously. read more

The inscription of Darius the Great at Bisutun reads in part; “I am a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan of the Aryan race.” Whatever "Aryan" means, it certainly wasn't what Hitler had in mind. read more

The Medes were an people of Indo-Iranian (Aryan) origin who inhabited the western and north-western portion of present-day Iran. By the 6th century BC (prior to the Persian invasion) the Medes were able to establish an empire that stretched from Aran (the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan) to Central Asia and Afghanistan. read more

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