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> huns I assume?
Huns, Avars, Bulgarians, Bojars, Turks.

Among them was a very particular and numerous branch of nations of a very pure essence, at least by the time they arrived in Europe. This important circumstance is guaranteed by the documents; I am talking about the Sarmatians.

They descended, said the Greeks of Pontus, from an alliance between the Sakas and the Ama-zones, in other words, the mothers of the Aces or the Aryans (1).

The Sarmatians, like all other peoples of the family, saw themselves as brothers in the most distant lands. More of their nations lived north of the Paropamise, while others, known to the geographers of the Celestial Empire as Suth, Suthle, Alasma and Jan-thsai, came, in the 2nd century BC, to occupy some of the Eastern cantons of the Caspian Sea (2). The Iranians competed many times with these swarms of...411 .... warriors, and the excessive fear they had of their opinionated martiality had perpetuated itself in their Bactrian and Sogdian traditions. It is from their that Firdousi made them pass into his poem (1').

Asia, Asia, is the land of the Aryans. Sak or hak means to honor.
Lassen et Westergaard, p. 25.- Ket means in modern Persian voice honorable.
(1) The word mother is, in Sanscrit, amaba. This is a shorter dialectical form.
(2) T. II, p. 330
(1') The three sons of of Feridounn are Iredj, Tour and Khawer. These are personifications of the three white branches of Persia, of the Iran, properly said, then of interior Asia, then of the Western regions of the world. The parenthood within the groups is thus rigorously recognized. One will not lack to find in the term Khawer a completely natural transcription of the term Yavana. This is another testimony of the antiquity of the terms used by Firdousi. - See t, II, pgs. 168, note. - Schaffarik, Slawisch. Alterth., t. I, p. 350-351.

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