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Were the Medes the ancient ancestors of the Slavs?

Cooky

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In the 400s b.c., Greek geographer Herodotus recorded much of what was known of the people within and surrounding Greece. Of those living in Eastern Europe and southern Russia at the time, he described a specific tribe dressed like the Medes that dwelled east all the way to the Danube—a people whose “borders reach down almost to the Eneti upon the Adriatic Sea, and they call themselves colonists of the Medes.”

Roman geographer Pliny confirms what Herodotus recorded. He wrote in the first century a.d. of the people who lived in what is now modern-day Ukraine: “We then come to the river Tanais [River Don], which discharges itself into the sea by two mouths, and the banks of which are inhabited by the Sarmatæ, the descendants of the Medi.”

So Roman and Greek historians record that the descendants of the Medes migrated out of Asia from what is now Iran into Europe—settling all over Eastern Europe, from modern-day Ukraine all the way to the Balkans! At Pliny’s time, the Medes began to be called Sarmatians.

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Rival

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The Slavs' origin remains a mystery, but there doesn't appear to be anything to do with the Medes. As far as European history goes they are a fairly new addition.
 

74x12

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The Medes were apparently a "white" race. So this would make sense. Many people in Iran today have fair skin because of it. But the modern Iranians are descendants of at least 3 main ancient nations. The persians, medes and Elamites.
 
Were the Medes the ancient ancestors of the Slavs?

Nope :D

Slavs are more a linguistic than an ethnic grouping being as they are not that different genetically from non-Slavic neighbours (Romania, Hungary, etc).

fig2-k1-6-journal.pone_.0135820.g003-1.jpg
 

Srivijaya

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The Slavs' origin remains a mystery, but there doesn't appear to be anything to do with the Medes. As far as European history goes they are a fairly new addition.
The Slavs don't get much mention in history, but they must have been around as long as any other European people. The Medes are fascinating - I think the original wise men of the east. Perhaps all part of an Indo-European family, but I wouldn't have made a connection between the two.
 

Cooky

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Magian Religion of the Medes [BC 788-550]

The Medes had an ancient Iranian religion, a form of pre-Zoroastrian Mazdaism or Mithraism. The religion of the ancient Medes [BC 788-550] is one of the most difficult and disputable questions in ancient Oriental history.

in a list of Median princes conquered by Sargon in 714-713 BC there is found the name of Mazdaku, proving that Zoroaster's god Mazda, 'the Wise,' was already worshipped.

Magian Religion of the Medes [BC 788-550]
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
Were the Medes the ancient ancestors of the Slavs?

Nope :D

Slavs are more a linguistic than an ethnic grouping being as they are not that different genetically from non-Slavic neighbours (Romania, Hungary, etc).

fig2-k1-6-journal.pone_.0135820.g003-1.jpg

According to your graph, Poles are just like Germans and Slovenians are just like French.

...But your graph fails to show us the Medes...
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
Slavs are more similar to Germanic peoples than they are to Middle Eastern peoples. Russia was basically founded by Vikings.

I think what most people fail to understand is that the Persians and the Medes were both white people, but the Elamites were black Africans... These were the three largest ancient groups in what is now Iran.
 

74x12

Well-Known Member
I think what most people fail to understand is that the Persians and the Medes were both white people, but the Elamites were black Africans... These were the three largest ancient groups in what is now Iran.
I don't think so. I think Elam was son of Shem. (Genesis 10:22)
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
They aren't. They did not live on the European continent.

Well, I consider myself European-American, though I have never stepped foot on the European continent.

Like the Persians and Medes, I also only have European genetics and linguistics.
 
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