Askani (tribe)
Askani (also known as Ashkani)[1] is a Baloch tribe from Balochistan known as Baloch.[2] They are also found in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Name[]
The Ferdowsi poem says that the army of Ashkash was from the wanderers of the Koch and Baloch, intent on war, with exalted cockscomb crest, whose back none in the world ever saw. [3] In ancient times, Ashkan (Ashk) was the Persian name for the Parthian Kings.
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A Parthian king Valach (or Balach?), at Behistun.
In History[]
- Ref. Tabari, specifying Ašk as founder of the Aškānī dynasty, makes him son of Aškān the Great and a descendant of Kay - Abībēh, the son of Kay Qobād. [4]
- Ref. Tedesco identified Parthian (Askani ) as dialect belonging to the Baluchi -Caspian group in the [Zagros hills ( Media Greater ) rather than Alburz hills ( Media Raghae ).[5]
- Ref. The Aškāni (Arsacid ) rulers in Ferdawsi 's Shāhnāma. It is 277 verses long in the Moscow edition out of the 777 rhyming couplets devoted to the Aškāni dynasty as a whole ( i . e . , it extends to more than one - third of the chapter ).[6]
- Ref. D.R. Shifiq in his , ' History of the Iranian Literature ' , writes that the word ' Pahlavi originates from Parzav , an Arsacid tribe ( akin to the Baloch tribe Puzz ).[7]
- Ref. T.Kingsmill seems to be the first scholar of ancient China to suggest that An - shi was first used to refer to the Ashkani ( Arsacid ) emperors.[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial Industrial, and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures. Bernard Quaritch.
- ^ Marri, M. K. B. 1997. Searchlights on Baloches and Balochistan. Ferozsons. ISBN 9690013734
- ^ Khan, Sabir Badal (2013). Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore: Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore. Università di Napoli, "l'Orientale".
- ^ Yar-Shater, Ehsan (1982). Encyclopaedia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-9090-4.
- ^ Mengal, Mir Aqil K. (1990). A Persian-Pahlavi, Balochi Vocabulary: A-C (in Persian). Balochi Academy.
- ^ Asian Folklore Studies. Nanzan University Institute of Anthropology. 2001.
- ^ Mengal, Mir Aqil K. (1990). A Persian-Pahlavi, Balochi Vocabulary: A-C (in Persian). Balochi Academy.
- ^ The Iranian Journal of International Affairs. Institute for Political and International Studies. 2000.
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