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The ethnonym "Iranians" comes from the historical name "Iran", derived from the ancient Iranian Aryan (land), (land) of the Aryans. Iranian or Aryan peoples are a group of peoples of common origin, speaking Iranian-speaking Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages, formed in the steppes of the Southern Urals - Black Sea Coast. The oldest population of Iran, in its western part, from the 4th millennium B.C. were Elamites, Kassites and their kindred tribes; part of them may be Hurrians. The languages of these tribes were not part of either the Semitic or Indo-European family of languages. The tribes that spoke Iranian languages appeared in Iran at the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.. Gradually, it is planned to establish agricultural areas in a number of areas of Central Asia: in the Areya - along Tejen (Gerirud), Margiana - along Murghab, Bactria - in the upper reaches of the Amu Darya, Sogdiana - in the Kashka-Darya and Zaravshan, Khorezm (Khorasmiya) - along the lower reaches of the Amu Darya and near the Sarykamysh Basin. Both nomadic and sedentary tribes spoke the languages of the Iranian group of the Indo-European family. Many hydronyms (names of rivers) have a distinct character of the Aryan tribes - Daria (from "Arya").
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Andrey Tikhomirov, in 1986 afgestudeerd aan het Orenburgse Staatspedagogisch Instituut met een diploma in geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, staat en recht, werkte als leraar op middelbare scholen en universiteiten, en redigeerde kranten.
