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توران جای‌نامی برای یک منطقه در آسیای میانه به معنی سرزمین تور به زبان پارسی میانه[۱] است، که از آن سوی آمودریا (جیحون) یعنی ماوراءالنهر، به خوارزم متصل بوده و از مشرق تا دریاچهٔ آرال امتداد دارد.[۲] همان‌طور که در ادامه توضیح داده می‌شود تورانیان اصلی از نژاد سکاها در عصر اوستا هستند.[۳][۴][۵] واژهٔ تورا در یشت‌های اوستا قبایل چادرنشینی را توصیف می‌کند که اسب‌های تندپا دارند و دشمن ایرانیان یکجانشین هستند. در منابع اشوری ۶۴۱ یا ۶۴۰ پیش از میلاد، این قبایل چادرنشین سکایی شناخته می‌شدند.[۶] در کعبهٔ زرتشت، توران جزء ایالت‌های ایران آمده[۷] کهن‌ترین منبع به زبان هند و اروپایی که به کلمهٔ توران اشاره می‌کند کتاب اوستا است و تمامی تورانیان در این کتاب نام‌های ایرانی دارند.[۸]تورانی‌ها هند و اروپایی و شاخه‌ای از قوم آریایی سکاها با فرهنگ نازلتر بودند. هنگامی که در قرن ششم میلادی سرزمین سکاها به زیر سلطهٔ ترکان درآمد، این دو واژه با هم درآمیختند و نام توران به ترکان اطلاق شد.[۹] در کتاب‌های پهلوی نیز نام‌های تورانیان همه ترکی است (مانند تایگور و تایگان و جاموکالا تیچان). در شاهنامه هم نام‌هایی مانند پشنگ و ارژنگ، افراسیاب، گرسیوز، اغریرث، گُروی، کهرم، سپهرم، اندریمان، سرخه، شیده، فرنگیس، منیژه، ویسه، فرشیدورد، لهاک، هومان، پیران، بارمان، پیلسم، گلباد، نستیهن، شواسپ، ارجاسپ، ویدرفش، نامخواست و…)، کاملاً آشکار می‌سازد که تورانیان عصر اوستایی، قوم-قبیله‌ای «ایرانی» بوده‌اند. ایرانی شاخه‌ای از اقوام هندوایرانی (آریایی) هستند که خود به دو دسته ایرانی شرقی (سکاها) و ایرانی غربی (مادها و پارس ها) تقسیم می‌شوند. در عصر اشکانی و ساسانی، پس از آن که یاد و خاطرهٔ تورانیان کهن دیگر به اسطوره‌ها پیوسته و در دل حماسه‌ها جای گرفته بود، با جایگزین شدن هپتالیان و خیون‌ها در آسیای میانه، و سپس در عصر اسلامی با ساکن شدن ترکان در این ناحیه، نام قوم-قبیلهٔ فراموش شده و از میان رفتهٔ «توران»، به ساکنان جدید و نوآمدهٔ این منطقه، یعنی هپتالیان و خیون‌ها و هون‌ها، و سرانجام «ترکان» اطلاق گشت و با آنان منطبق شد. از این روست که در متون عصر اسلامی، گاه از اصطلاح تور و توران برای اشاره به ترکان ساکن آسیای میانه و ماوراءالنهر استفاده می‌شود، چنانکه در لغتنامهٔ دهخدا ذیل مدخل توران آمده است: «نام ترکستان است و بعضی از خراسان و آن از مشرق است».[۱۰] مردم ایران و توران به عنوان یک قوم محسوب می‌شدند که هر دو از نوادگان فریدون بودند اما با دو قلمرو مختلف و اغلب نیز با یکدیگر در جنگ بودند.[۱۱][۱۲] ارتباط توران با ترک‌ها نیز از حساب جغرافیایی شاهنامه گرفته شده‌است که ترک شدن آسیای میانه در طول آن زمان تا اندازه‌ای تکمیل شده بود.[۱۳] در واقع با توجه به شاهنامه دستکم ۱۵۰۰ سال پس از اوستا، قبایل کوچ‌نشین که ساکنان این سرزمین بودند توسط تورج که پسر ارشد فریدون بود رهبری می‌شدند. از اوستا و کتب دینی پهلوی و داستان‌های ملی و اقوال مورخان قدیم برمی‌آید که ایرانیان و تورانیان از یک نژاد بوده‌اند. منتها ایرانیان زودتر شهرنشین شدند و تورانیان به همان وضع بیابان‌نوردی و چادرنشینی باقی‌ماندند. در کتب متأخر، منطقهٔ ترک و خزر و چین و ماچین و تبت و شرق را به تفاوت خاک تور و ممالک روم و روس و آلان و مغرب را خاک سرم (سلم) دانسته‌اند. برخلاف این پندار، توران و سرمان و دو مملکت دیگر سایینی و داهی، هر چهار مانند خود ایران مرز و بوم آریایی است.[۱۴] تور یا تورج (در فارسی میانه Tuzh) پسر فریدون در افسانه‌های باستانی ایران است. در شاهنامه وی به اشتباه ترک شناخته شده‌است.[۱۵] هرچند از نظر فرهنگی هیچ ارتباطی بین تورانیان شاهنامه و فرهنگ باستانی ترک‌ها وجود ندارد.[۱۶] در اواخر قرن نوزدهم و اوایل قرن بیستم میلادی ارتباط تورانیان با اقوام اورال و آلتائیک زبان مطرح شد ولی هم‌اکنون این نظریه منسوخ و رد شده است. باید به این نکته اشاره کرد که در نوشته‌ها صفویان، عثمانیان را رومی و دولت روم می‌خواندند. در حالی که عثمانیان، یونانی-رومی نبودند، ولی چون زیست‌بوم آنان از دیرباز روم نامیده می‌شد، این نام‌گذاری بر سرزمین عثمانیان، در میان مسلمانان رواج داشت. هم‌چنین در این دوران، آسیای میانه و دولت شیبانیانِ اوزبک را توران می‌خواندند. سراسر نام‌های تورانیان دارای ریشهٔ ایرانی است. در شاه‌نامهٔ فردوسی که برگرفته‌شده از خدای‌نامه است تورانیان با ایرانیان دارای یک ریشه هستند آن‌گاه که از پادشاهی و تقسیم سرزمین‌ها به دست فریدون (نماد هندواروپاییان) سخن می‌رود. تور و سلم و ایرج هر سه فرزندان فریدون هستند یکی از این سرزمین‌ها سرزمین تور در همسایگی و مرز به مرز ترکان-مغولان در شمال چیست است که به تور برادر ایرج (نماد ایرانیان) می‌رسد. سرزمین توران و تورانیان با سرزمین سکاها و قوم هندواروپایی سکا برابر است.[۱۷] نام توران در اشعار ادیبان پارسی‌گو[ویرایش]شمارش واژه‌های مهم هویت زبانی و فرهنگی بار بار در ادبیات شاعران ایران‌زمین: این فهرست قابل گسترش می‌باشد. منابع[۱۸][۱۹]
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 German "Map of Iran and Turan", dated 1850 (during the Qajar dynasty), Turan territory indicated by orange line (here enhanced). The name "Turan" appears to the east of the Aral Sea. According to the legend (bottom right of the map), Turan encompasses regions including modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and northern parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This area roughly corresponds to what is called Central Asia today. List of the areas mentioned in the map as part of Turan: 1. Khwarezm 2. Bukhara with Balkh 3. Shehersebz (near Bukhara) 4. Hissar 5. Khokand 6. Durwaz 7. Karategin 8. Kunduz 9. Kafiristan 10. Chitral 11. Gilgit 12. Iskardu 13.14. The northern steppes (Kazakhstan). Turan (Persian: توران, romanized: Turân, pronounced [t̪ʰuːˈɾɒːn], "The Land of Tur") is a historical region in Central Asia. The term is of Iranian origin[1][2] and may refer to a particular prehistoric human settlement, a historic geographical region, or a culture. The original Turanians were an Iranian[3][4][5] tribe of the Avestan age. ContentsOverviewIn ancient Iranian mythology, Tūr or Turaj (Tuzh in Middle Persian)[6] is the son of the emperor Fereydun. According to the account in the Shahnameh the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands were ruled by Tūr. In that sense, the Turanians could be members of two Iranian peoples both descending from Fereydun, but with different geographical domains and often at war with each other.[7][8] Turan, therefore, comprised five areas: the Kopet Dag region, the Atrek valley, the eastern Alborz mountains, Helmand valley, Bactria and Margiana.[9] A later association of the original Turanians with Turkic peoples is based primarily on the subsequent Turkification of Central Asia, including the above areas.[10][11] According to C. E. Bosworth, however, there was no cultural relationship between the ancient Turkic cultures and the Turanians of the Shahnameh.[12] TerminologyAncient literatureAvestaThe oldest existing mention of Turan is in the Farvardin yashts, which are in the Young Avestan language and have been dated by linguists to approximately 2300 BCE.[13] According to Gherardo Gnoli, the Avesta contains the names of various tribes who lived in proximity to each other: "the Airyas [Aryans], Tuiryas [Turanians], Sairimas [Sarmatians], Sainus [Ashkuns] and Dahis [Dahae]".[14] In the hymns of the Avesta, the adjective Tūrya is attached to various enemies of Zoroastrism like Fraŋrasyan (Shahnameh: Afrāsīāb). The word occurs only once in the Gathas, but 20 times in the later parts of the Avesta. The Tuiryas as they were called in Avesta play a more important role in the Avesta than the Sairimas, Sainus and Dahis. Zoroaster himself hailed from the Airya people but he also preached his message to other neighboring tribes.[14][15] According to Mary Boyce, in the Farvardin Yasht, "In it (verses 143–144) are praised the fravashis of righteous men and women not only among the Aryas (as the "Avestan" people called themselves), but also among the Turiyas, Sairimas, Sainus and Dahis; and the personal names, like those of the people, all seem Iranian character".[16] Hostility between Tuirya and Airya is indicated also in the Farvardtn Yast (vv. 37-8), where the Fravashis of the Just are said to have provided support in battle against the Danus, who appear to be a clan of the Tura people.[17] Thus in the Avesta, some of the Tuiryas believed in the message of Zoroaster while others rejected the religion. Similar to the ancient homeland of Zoroaster, the precise geography and location of Turan is unknown.[18] In post-Avestan traditions they were thought to inhabit the region north of the Oxus, the river separating them from the Iranians. Their presence accompanied by incessant wars with the Iranians, helped to define the latter as a distinct nation, proud of their land and ready to spill their blood in its defense.[19] The common names of Turanians in Avesta and Shahnameh include Frarasyan,[20] Aghraethra,[21] Biderafsh,[22] Arjaspa[23] Namkhwast.[22] The names of Iranian tribes including those of the Turanians that appear in Avesta have been studied by Manfred Mayrhofer in his comprehensive book on Avesta personal name etymologies.[24] Late Sassanid and early Islamic era Turan was one of the regions of the Sasanian Empire, here seen at the extreme southeast. From the 5th century CE, the Sasanian Empire defined "Turan" in opposition to "Iran", as the land where lay its enemies to the northeast.[25] The continuation of nomadic invasions on the north-eastern borders in historical times kept the memory of the Turanians alive.[19] After the 6th century the Turks, who had been pushed westward by other tribes, became neighbours of Iran and were identified with the Turanians.[19][26] The identification of the Turanians with the Turks was a late development, possibly made in the early 7th century; the Turks first came into contact with the Iranians only in the 6th century.[20]
The terms "Turk" and "Turanian" became used interchangeably during the Islamic era. The Shahnameh, or the Book of Kings, the compilation of Iranian mythical heritage, uses the two terms equivalently. Other authors, including Tabari, Hakim Iranshah and many other texts follow like. A notable exception is the Abl-Hasan Ali ibn Masudi, an Arab historian who writes: "The birth of Afrasiyab was in the land of Turks and the error that historians and non-historians have made about him being a Turk is due to this reason".[28] By the 10th century, the myth of Afrasiyab was adopted by the Qarakhanid dynasty.[20] During the Safavid era, following the common geographical convention of the Shahnameh, the term Turan was used to refer to the domain of the Uzbek empire in conflict with the Safavids. Some linguists derive the word from the Indo-Iranian root *tura- "strong, quick, sword(Pashto)", Pashto turan (thuran) "swordsman". Others link it to old Iranian *tor "dark, black", related to the New Persian tār(ik), Pashto tor (thor), and possibly English dark. In this case, it is a reference to the "dark civilization" of Central Asian nomads in contrast to the "illuminated" Zoroastrian civilization of the settled Ārya. ShahnamehIn the Persian epic Shahnameh, the term Tūrān ("land of the Tūrya" like Ērān, Īrān = "land of the Ārya") refers to the inhabitants of the eastern-Iranian border and beyond the Oxus. According to the foundation myth given in the Shahnameh, King Firēdūn (= Avestan Θraētaona) had three sons, Salm, Tūr and Īraj, among whom he divided the world: Asia Minor was given to Salm, Turan to Tur and Iran to Īraj. The older brothers killed the younger, but he was avenged by his grandson, and the Iranians became the rulers of the world. However, the war continued for generations. In the Shahnameh, the word Turan appears nearly 150 times and that of Iran nearly 750 times. Some examples from the Shahnameh:
Modern literatureGeography In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Western languages borrowed the word Turan as a general designation for modern Central Asia, although this expression has now fallen into disuse. Turan appears next to Iran on numerous maps of the 19th century[29] to designate a region encompassing modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and northern parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This area roughly corresponds to what is called Central Asia today. The phrase Turan Plain or Turan Depression became a geographical term referring to a part of Central Asia. LinguisticsThe term Turanian, now obsolete, formerly[when?] occurred in the classifications used by European (especially German, Hungarian, and Slovak) ethnologists, linguists, and Romantics to designate populations speaking non-Indo-European, non-Semitic, and non-Hamitic languages[30] and specially speakers of Altaic, Dravidian, Uralic, Japanese, Korean and other languages.[31] Max Müller (1823–1900) identified different sub-branches within the Turanian language family:
Müller also began to muse whether Chinese belonged to the Northern branch or Southern branch.[32] The main relationships between Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic languages were considered[by whom?] typological. According to Crystal & Robins, "Language families, as conceived in the historical study of languages, should not be confused with the quite separate classifications of languages by reference to their sharing certain predominant features of grammatical structure."[33] As of 2013[update] linguists classify languages according to the method of comparative linguistics rather than using their typological features. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, Max's Müller's "efforts were most successful in the case of the Semites, whose affinities are easy to demonstrate, and probably least successful in the case of the Turanian peoples, whose early origins are hypothetical".[34] As of 2014[update] the scholarly community no longer uses the word Turanian to denote a classification of language families. The relationship between Uralic and Altaic, whose speakers were also designated as Turanian people in 19th-century European literature, remains uncertain.[35] IdeologyIn European discourse, the words Turan and Turanian can designate a certain mentality, i.e. the nomadic in contrast to the urbanized agricultural civilizations. This usage probably[original research?] matches the Zoroastrian concept of the Tūrya, which is not primarily a linguistic or ethnic designation, but rather a name of the infidels that opposed the civilization based on the preaching of Zoroaster. Combined with physical anthropology, the concept of the Turanian mentality has a clear potential for cultural polemic. Thus in 1838 the scholar J.W. Jackson described the Turanid or Turanian race in the following words:[36]
Polish philosopher Feliks Koneczny claimed the existence of a distinctive Turanian civilization, encompassing both Turkic and some Slavs, such as Russians. This alleged civilization's hallmark would be militarism, anti-intellectualism and an absolute obedience to the ruler. Koneczny saw this civilization as inherently inferior to Latin (Western European) civilization. PoliticsIn the declining days of the Ottoman Empire, some Turkish nationalists adopted the word Turanian to express a pan-Turkic ideology, also called Turanism. As of 2013[update] Turanism forms an important aspect of the ideology of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), whose members are also known as Grey Wolves. In recent times[when?], the word Turanian has sometimes expressed a pan-Altaic nationalism (theoretically including Manchus and Mongols in addition to Turks), though no political organization seems to have adopted such an ambitious platform. NamesTurandot — or Turandokht — is a female name in Iran and it means "Turan's Daughter" in Persian. (It is best known in the West through Puccini's famous opera Turandot (1921–24).) Turan is also a common name in the Middle East, and as family surnames in some countries including Bahrain, Iran, Bosnia and Turkey. The Ayyubid ruler Saladin had an older brother with the name Turan-Shah. Turaj, whom ancient Iranian myths depict as the ancestor of the Turanians, is also a popular name and means Son of Darkness. The name Turan according to Iranian myths derives from the homeland of Turaj. The Pahlavi pronunciation of Turaj is Tuzh, according to the Dehkhoda dictionary. Similarly, Iraj, which is also a popular name, is the brother of Turaj in the Shahnameh. An altered version of Turaj is Zaraj, which means son of gold. Family tree
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