Mazandarani people

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The Mazandarani people are an Iranian people living primarily in the provinces of Mazandaran and Golestan (formerly part of Mazandaran), as well as Gilan, Tehran and Semnan of Iran, whoe speak a Northwestern Iranian language named Mazandarani.

In the Safavid era Mazandaran was settled by Georgian migrants, whose descendants still live across Mazandaran. Still many towns, villages and neighbourhoods in Mazandaran bear the name "Gorji" (i.e. Georgian) in them, although most of the Georgians are already assimilated into the mainstream Mazandaranis. The history of Georgian settlement is described by Eskandar Beyg Monshi, the author of the 17th century Tarikh-e Alam-Ara-ye Abbasi, in addition many foreigners e.g. Chardin, and Della Valle, have written about their encounters with the Georgian Mazandaranis. Mazandaranis today are the descendants of these Caucasians as well as the native pre-17th century Mazandaranis.

Language

The Mazandarani language is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. Compared to most other Iranian languages, the language took far smaller influence of other incoming languages such as Arabic and Turkish. According to Ethnologue, there were more than three million native speakers of Mazandarani in 1993 speaking different dialects such as Gorgani, Ghadikolahi, and Palani

Notable figures

Historic

• Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir al-Tabari (838-923), was a Mazandarani historian and theologian (the most famous and widely-influential person called al-Tabari).
• Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Rustom al-Tabari, was a Shia thinker who is commonly confused with the first one. He is the author of the book Dala'il al-Imamah (Proofs of the Imamate)
• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, "Ali the scholar from Tabiristan" (838-870 A.D.) was the writer of a medical encyclopedia and the teacher of the scholar physician Zakariya al-Razi.
• Abul Hasan al-Tabari, a 10th century Iranian physician.
• Al-Tabarani, (c. 821-918 CE) the author of numerous ahadeeth.
• Amir Pazevari, poet.

Contemporary

• Reza Shah, Emperor of Iran (Persia) from 1924-1941
• Nima Yooshij
• Ali Larijani, Iranian politician and chief nuclear negotiator

See also

• Māzandarān Province
• Mazandarani language
• List of famous people from Mazandaran

References

External links

• A research about DNA of Mazandarani people

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