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'''Persia Makran''' was a part of the great region of [[Makran]], which today includes Balochistan of Iran and Pakistan.
'''Persia Makran''' was a part of the great region of [[Makran]], which today includes Balochistan of Iran and Pakistan.
Makran is also mentioned in some European sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Makran Pars is part of the great Makran province. During the colonial period, the Iranian part was called Makran Pars. The Persian Gulf book, published by the British government in 1917, lists the areas and settlements and cities of Makran Pars from Bandar Abbas to Gwadar. Persian Makran is a name that is also used in Arabic books and it seems that the English took the word Persian Makran from Arabic sources.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Persian_Gulf_WDL11771.pdf?uselang=fa]
[[Makran]] is also mentioned in some European sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries.Persian Makran is part of the great Makran province. During the colonial period, the Iranian part of Makran was called Makran Pars or persian makran. The Persian Gulf book, published by the British government in 1917, lists the areas and settlements and cities of Makran Pars from Bandar Abbas to Gwadar. Persian Makran is a name that is also used in Arabic books and it seems that the English took the word Persian Makran from Arabic sources.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Persian_Gulf_WDL11771.pdf?uselang=fa]
==Etymology==
==Etymology==
[[File:Map of persia.jpg|thumb|Map of Mecran]]
[[File:Map of persia.jpg|thumb|Map of Mecran]]
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* [[Makran Coastal Range]]
* [[Makran Coastal Range]]
* [[Makran Division]]
* [[Makran Division]]
* [[N'aschi]]
* [[Makran]]
* [[Sokhta Koh]]
* [[Iran]]
* [[State of Makran]]
* [[State of Makran]]
* [[Wildlife of Pakistan#Western highlands.2C plains and deserts|Wildlife of Pakistan § Western highlands, plains and deserts]]
* [[Wildlife of Pakistan#Western highlands.2C plains and deserts|Wildlife of Pakistan § Western highlands, plains and deserts]]

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Persia Makran was a part of the great region of Makran, which today includes Balochistan of Iran and Pakistan. Makran is also mentioned in some European sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries.Persian Makran is part of the great Makran province. During the colonial period, the Iranian part of Makran was called Makran Pars or persian makran. The Persian Gulf book, published by the British government in 1917, lists the areas and settlements and cities of Makran Pars from Bandar Abbas to Gwadar. Persian Makran is a name that is also used in Arabic books and it seems that the English took the word Persian Makran from Arabic sources.[1]

Etymology

Map of Mecran

The southern part of Balochistan is called Kech Makran on Pakistani side and Makran on the Iranian side which is also the name of a former Iranian province.[1] The location corresponds to that of the Maka satrapy in Achaemenid times. The Sumerian trading partners of Magan are identified with Makran.[2] In Varahamihira's Brihat Samhita, there is a mention of a tribe called Makara inhabiting the lands west of India. Arrian used the term Ichthyophagi (Ancient Greek for "fish eaters") for inhabitants of coastal areas, which has led to a suggestion to derive Makran from the modern Persian term māhī khorān, meaning "fish eaters".[3]

Pre-history

The remnants of the earliest people in Balochistan were the Brahui people, a Dravidian speaking people closely related to the Dravidian speaking people of South India. The Brahuis were originally[when?] Hindus and Buddhists,[citation needed] similar to the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speaking peoples in the rest of the subcontinent. However, unlike the rest of northern India, where Indo-Aryan languages rose to prominence, the Brahuis retained the Dravidian language throughout the millennia.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Makran". www.britannica.com. Britannica. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  2. ^ Hansman 1973, p. 555.
  3. ^ Yule, Sir Henry; Cordier, Henri, eds. (1993) [first published 1903, revised 1920], The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, Volume II, Courier Corporation, pp. 402–, ISBN 978-0-486-27587-1
  4. ^ Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. Columbia University Press. 2004-03-01. ISBN 9780231115698. Retrieved 2010-09-09.

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