The influence of Iranian culture on Eastern Europe is not disputed. Researchers write about the South Iranian stream, which came from the south of the Parthians, from Persia and Transcaucasia, and the North Iranian route through Khorezm to the Volga. The least known Iranian influences before our era on the tribes of southern Siberia. There is an opinion that the ancestors of the Chuvash people were Savirs/Suvars. Although the thesis remains open, it contains sufficient ground for historical and philological research. The article uses the example of materials on geography, religion and languages to trace the relationship between the Iranian tribes and the ancestors of the Chuvash people - the Savirs.
Keywords: Iranian tribes, Savirs, geography, religion, linguistics, mutual influence.
Geography. The Arkaim settlement discovered in the Southern Urals is identical to the Var built by Yima at the behest of Ahura Mazda. Not far from Arkaim, graves with chariots (Sintashta burial ground) were discovered, and ancient mortars were excavated. From here, from the steppe zone, in the second millennium BC, the Aryan expansion to the south could have begun [Ghats of Zarathustra, 2009, p. 18].
The fact that the population of the Caucasus experienced Iranian influence from the first to the ninth centuries is also indicated by the preserved toponymy. Take the province of Paytakaran, which was located in the IV-V centuries on the shore of the Caspian Sea between the lower reaches of the Kura and Araks rivers. "Paytakaran consists of two components: paytak-a corruption of paytakht (in Persian) - "capital" and Aram - the local name of Albania. Paytakaran means "the capital of Aran"" [Ashurbeyli, 1983, p. 26]. The name of the Hrakot-Perozh district, which is part of the Paytakaran province, is derived by merging the Armenian word Hrakot- "fire" and the Iranian name Peroz. The toponym Rotibaga means "river of god", and Baganrod means "river of the gods", i.e. a river of worshippers of G ...
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