Airyanem Vaejah

Airyanem Vaejah ("ariernas land") kallas det som var de indoiranska folkens urhem. Det omnämns i såväl Avesta som Rigveda. Denna plats ska enligt Avesta ha varit belägen någonstans i nordöstra delarna av Stor-Iran, vilket motsvarar nuvarande Centralasien.^[1]

Namnet Iran härstammar från ordet Airyanem Vaejah.

Enligt både Avesta och pahlavilitteraturen är Airyanem Vaejah Zarathustras hemland.^[2]

^ Willem Vogelsang, "The sixteen lands of Videvdat - Airyanem Vaejah and the homeland of the Iranians", Persica, vol. 16, 2000.
^ Émile Benveniste "L'Ērān-vēž et l'origine légendaire des Iraniens", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 7, 1934.

[1] Willem Vogelsang, "The sixteen lands of Videvdat - Airyanem Vaejah and the homeland of the Iranians", Persica, vol. 16, 2000.

[2] Émile Benveniste "L'Ērān-vēž et l'origine légendaire des Iraniens", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 7, 1934.

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