Author: Marie K. » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:22 am
my conclusion (with the help of my kurdish friend) about if Kurd are aryan or not (with a sum up of kurdish history):
Medes had settled in central and north western Iran and begun to get blended between Mannians and others indo-european nations who were inhabiting in this area.
At that time, Media kingdom was consisted of East Kurdistan (Iraq), West Central and Northern Iran;
many Medians/Medes had been to Hurria (north Kurdistan) and had left their own hometown (Central Iran), as a result a new nation was born : Mittanis whose the language was a Median-Hurrian dialect (Modern kurdmanji-Kurdish). Thats why there is almost no any kurdish population in central iran nowadays..
Medes were from indo-european (Aryan) ethnic background & roots settled themselves in every Hurrian cities and had rebuilt them.
Medes from Northern Hurria were called Mittani or Mattani while Medes from Southern Hurria were called Gutian/Goti.
All Gutians, Mittanis and Median were one nation (Mîdî);
Victory after victory, Gutians, who were often at war with assyrians.
After the fall of assyrian empire, many Median tribes who were from Bêstûn, Hemedan had come to South Kurdland and Assyria and begun to settled in there. Erbil,Kerkûk were some among other cities which had been built by Gutian-Medes (who were settled in those area) but after times it had occured that this place was captured by Assyrians (who are from Semitic/Arabs/Mesopotamia roots;
Mittani, Gutian and Medes (Median) all of them were from same background but they used to spoke several dialects. Urartians were, for many of them, from ancestors to modern kurdmanji-kurd;
for instance, in south-east Kurdland, kurdmanji-kurds used to wear exactly same clothes as others kurds but in North Kurdland they used to wear different clothes..
During 250 years, brave Medes got united to more than 6 indo-european nation which was become Median empire.
Cyrus the great,indeed, Cyraxes/Keyxesrew was from Kurd-Iranian roots along with Zarathustra who was born in Urmia ( this area is still a Median/Kurdish place).
Zoroastrianism is founded as the religion of Medya.
Medes used to celebrate the new year (Newroz) at the beginning of Spring. Under the rule of Cyaxares in 626 BC, the Median Empire extended itself.
Thus, Media/Kurdish empire (Mîdya, Medya,Medua,Mada) was stretched out into 5 provinces: Greater Media/Iranian Kurdistan, Atropatane Media/Azerbaijan,Adiabene/Southern Kurdistan,Curduene/Turkish Kurdistan.
Achaemenid Empire was the second biggest Median-Persian Empire, Median Lord and Median Army joined Cyrus/Kurroj (son of Mandana daughter), had went to Ecbatana/Hermedan and captured it thereafter.
Persian army couldn't defeated Median Empire. A revolt against their own king (Astyag), was initiated by a former Median General, which leads to the fall of the Median Empire. This king had a strong power inner the Achaemenid Empire. In Median army, mostly each leader and soldier were from Medes.
After the fall of Achaemenid Empire,the greek army captured Media and divided this area into 2 parts: Media Atropatene-Mannia and Greater Media;
Then, Mannia people who were from caucasian roots had become Medes and used to spoke a Median-kurdish language.
Some Mannia (Manneans) had begun to called themselves: "azeri" and forget about their kurd roots.
During Alexander the great reign, Media consisted of Conduene, Greater Media, Atropatene and Adiabete.
Therefore Modern Kurds are a mixed nation between Hurria (a caucasian people) and Medes (who are from indo-european people= Aryans)
Aryans tribes mixed with Hurrians which had been created Mittanis civilisation.
Consequently some indo-european tribes mixed to Hurrians and many others nation were created: (Urartians,Gutians,Armenians),
Gutians who were from Gutium (Germîyan Province) won against Akkadian Empire and captured a big part of Elam. During median Empire, all of those nations became Medes: a new nation was born: the Kurd..whose their history go back to more than 6300 BC.
Awesta