Research on the Geographical Sovereignty of Kayānian Kings and Shahnameh
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
Malek Mohammad Farrokhzad
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عضو هیاَت علمی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامیواحد ساوه،ساوه ایران
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Manizhe Fallahi
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دانشجوی دکتری ، پردیس علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامیساوه،ساوه،ایران
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Keywords: Iran, شاهنامه, ایران, کیانیان, Sistan, Shahnameh, سیستان, قلمروی جغرافیایی, زامیادیشت, Kayānian, territory, Zamyad Ya&scaron, t,
Abstract :
Zamyad Yašt, aka Kayān Yašt, as the nineteenth Yašt of Avesta is considered the most important document in the ethnographic researches of the geographical foundation of the history of Iran. According to this Yašt, the kingdom of the Kayānian kings (Kay Ghobad, Kay Kavus, Kay Kosrow, Kay Lohrasb, and Kay Goštāsp) and their successful sovereignty is bound to the river banks leading to Hirmand River and running to Kiansiyeh (Hamoon) in Sistan. Other evidences – such as Zoroaster’s living during Kay Goštāsp’s sovereignty in eastern Persia (or Balkh) and certain congruity between the Gash and the northeasterners’ language, as well as the establishment of Kayānian kings (Kay Kavus, Kiani Kings and Kay Lohrasb) in Balkh according to Islamic period historians and stories of Shahnameh, traditions and monuments like the Gang Dezh in Turan built by Siavash, and the fireplace building at Sistan by Kay Kosrow – attest that the geographical borders wherein the word Kay – relating to the territory for the kingdom of Kayānian – was used stretches from the farthest parts of the northeast to the southeast of Sistan.
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