Media (kawasan)
Tampilan
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Media (Bahasa Persia Lama: Māda, Bahasa Persia Pertengahan: Mād) adalah sebuah wilayah di barat laut Iran, yang dikenal karena menjadi basis politik dan budaya dari bangsa Media.[N 1] Pada zaman Achaemenid, wilayah tersebut meliputi wilayah saat ini dari Azarbaijan, Kurdistan Iran dan barat Tabaristan.
Catatan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ A)"..and the Medes (Iranians of what is now north-west Iran).." Templat:EIEC. B) "Archaeological evidence for the religion of the Iranian-speaking Medes of the .." (Diakonoff 1985, hlm. 140). C) ".. succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Iranian-speaking Median tribes" ( from Encyclopædia Britannica [1]). D) "Proto-Iranian split into Western (Median, ancient Persian, and others) and Eastern (Scythian, Ossetic, Saka, Pamir and others)..." (Kuz'mina, Elena E. (2007), The origin of the Indo-Iranians, J. P. Mallory (ed.), BRILL, hlm. 303, ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5) ...
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online Media (ancient region, Iran)