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date: 14 December 2024

Iranian Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Seyed Mostafa AssiSeyed Mostafa Assi

Present Iran occupies the central part of historical and cultural Persia, spreading geographically from the Indian subcontinent in the east to Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the west and from the Caspian Sea and Caucasus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south. There are several hypothetical reasons—among them the diversity and mildness of the climate—that attracted the Indo‑Aryan tribes to migrate from the northern Asian steppes around the Aral Lake and north of the Caspian Sea to the southern regions of the Indian subcontinent and Iranian plateau.... ...

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