Author: heval » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:25 am
Piling wrote:Yes I have red you. But what are your sources ? I mean the scientific proof that it is a name from Medes. For we have absolutely no testimony of Medes'language (they did not write it) and even if it was composed as : "of Medes' place" what is the ethymology : A (?) Mida (is it Mede ?). And for the origin of Medes they came with Persians from Central Asia during the 1st Millenium BC. OK. The first settlement of Medes/Mards/Kyrtii tribes seems to to be around Urmiah Lake. They might have settled in Amid since 700-600 BC but are there sources mentionning the presence of Medes in that city ? For we have Syriac chronicles of Sassanid times, nut what about the Medes ? Medes'territory seems to be in Southern Wester Iran, called "Media" aka Djibal.
There is no scientific proof that the name, "Amed", is an Aramaic name either, as some claim it to be. Although, it may have been the name that Aramaic speakers used to describe the city at that time. Yes, the settlement of Mîdî tribes primarily in the areas that lie in what today is Western Iran is true. However, the vast Median Empire, or Mîdya, covered areas even further west including the parts that are what we call Kurdistan, today. This even extended to areas south of the Tigris River. The settlement of Mîdî Kurds in these Northern Kurdistan cities is very probable.