Mazandarani people

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Mazandarani
Total population	c. 4.5 million (1994 est.)
Regions with significant populations	Northwestern Iran: [1]
Language	Mazandarani, Persian
Religion	94% Shi'a Muslim 2% Zoroastrian 2% undefined 2% Other
Related ethnic groups	Other Iranian peoples

The Mazandarani people (or Tabari people) are a northwestern Iranian ethnic group in the Iranian province of Mazandaran whose indigenous language is Mazandarani. Persian is also widely spoken as a native and secondary language. Significant communities of Mazandarani people exist elsewhere in Iran, including Tehran, Semnan, Gorgan, Isfahan, North and Razavi Khorasan. International communities include Selangor of Malaysia, British Columbia in Canada, Hessen in Germany, and other cities of North America and Europe.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Etymology 1.2 History 2 Culture 2.1 Music 2.2 Dance 2.3 Song 2.4 Calendar 2.5 Architecture 2.6 Cuisine 2.6.1 Pəştizik 2.6.2 Sák 2.6.3 Pəlá 2.6.4 Kathea 2.7 Names 2.8 Festivals 2.8.1 Tir Ma Sezde Şű 2.8.2 Çəlë Şű 2.9 Pədrám Sərūş 3 Language 4 Notables 4.1 Persian Folklore 4.1.1 Pre Islam 4.1.2 Post Islam 4.2 History of Persia 4.2.1 Last Four Centuries 4.2.2 Current Century 4.3 Notable Mazandaranis Today 5 See also 6 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] Etymology

Mazandarani derives from Mazandaran, the name of the province. Tabari is a synonymous ethnic description, deriving from the province's former name, Tabaristan.

[edit] History

The word Mazandarani comes from Mazandaran, Which many times reminisced in Shahnama of Ferdowsi. It may refer to the Maz Mountain Meaning from the old persian Maz in it (Maz+Andar+An). Or it's possible that refers to the King Div-e Sepid who was blocking the attacks from Aryan People mainly Persians. Because of this, people of Iran who were unable to conquest of his land, Call it Mazandaran which means The land where Maaz is in it. There are many stories about wars among people of Mazandaran and Iran in Shahnama. Finally decline of Div-e Sepid's Power leads a group of Aryan people with limited population residing in Mazandaran among the original people of it. And they establish a new state which recognized by Greek people as Hyrcania. There are many evidences that the name of their state was Tapuristan during the Sassanid dynasty, After Arabs conquest of Persia, They arabiclized it as Tabaristan. The Taberi People keep their religion Zoroastrian even two or three centuries after most of the Iran convert to Islam, Many ambassadors of Shia came to Tabaristan and the Taberi people convert to Islam in the second century after islam comes to persia. Tabaristan as well as pre islamic period was a semi independent state in the post islamic period, Every time forigen dynasties of Persia such as Turkic leaders attacked to tabaristan, they were unable to remain for a long time in Tabersian and soon a native or a muslim dynasty fend forigen dynasties. (Such as the revolution of Sadat Mar'ashi against Timur), in the 17th century, Shah Abbas I of Safavid who was Taberi from his mother side integrated Mazandaran to his empire.

[edit] Culture

[edit] Music

The northern province of Mazandaran has a diverse folk music culture that includes songs and instrumental and ritual music. Rhythm is usually simple in songs, which include catouli , which is most common around the town of Aliabad Catoul ; the song is sometimes said to be sung when people take a catouli meaning cow out to graze. Because the song was originally sung while walking and working, it often has syllables like jana, hey or aye added, in order to allow the singer to breath while he was working (a work song). Another kind of song is called kalé hâl (or kal kâl or Leili's lover). The term kalé hâl may refer to its shortness of length (kalé hâl means short present) or to its common wingers, housewives who sang it while cooking with a kaleh, a type of oven. Amiri songs usually use long poems written by Amir Paazvari , a legendary poety from Mazandaran. There is also a type of song called najma which describes the love between Prince Najmedin of the province of Fars (one of the 28 provinces of Iran, in the south of the country with Shiraz as capital). The najma is popular throughout Iran, adapted for the local cultures. The Charvadars are an ancient class of merchants who sold commodities abroad for a local village; their songs are called charvadari . In contrast to most Mazandarani music, charvadari has a prominent rhythm, which may be because it was often sung on horseback.

[edit] Dance

Main Article: Mazandarani Dance

Mazandarani Dance (In Mazandarani: Səma) has many models which is different from a region to another region of Mazandaran.

[edit] Song

Main Article: Mazandarani Song

Mazandarani Songs (In Mazandarani: Vəng) are mainly composed about Sunset (Mazandarani: Nəmáşūn).

[edit] Calendar

Main Article: Taberi Calendar

Mazandarani or Taberi Calendar (In Mazandarani: Salnūma) is very similar to Zoroasterian Calendar, But the epoch of it is different.

[edit] Architecture

Main Article: Mazandarani Architecture

Old Towers of Mazandaran were having its own architecture and they are looking to european towers and castles, but many of them destroyed and there are weak evidences about them, Today no one use it to construct a new building.

[edit] Cuisine

Main Article: Mazandarani cuisine

[edit] Pəştizik

[edit] Sák

[edit] Pəlá

[edit] Kathea

[edit] Names

Many of the People in Mazandaran have a Taberi Given Name Such as: Shervin, Shouka, Karen, Karoo, Shoupeh, Hiwa, Diyako for Boys and Shebreh, Dooka, Roja, Bemoni, Tsupeh for Girls.

[edit] Festivals

[edit] Tir Ma Sezde Şű

Means 13th of the mounth Tir in the Taberi Calendar which is in the November and the purpose of celebrating it is back to when Arash succeed in the Attack among Iran and Turan.

[edit] Çəlë Şű

Means Shab-e Yalda in Persian and every year people Celebrate it in December.

[edit] Pədrám Sərūş

Means Chahar Shanbeh Souri in Persian and every year people celebrate it in March.

[edit] Language

Main article: Mazandarani language

[edit] Notables

[edit] Persian Folklore

There are a lot of mazandarnis in the folklores of Persia, Ferdowsi defines that the kings of pishdadi dynasty were actually mazandarani, He was right, because most of those people were buried in Sari, Iran.

[edit] Pre Islam

• Arash Kamangir (English: Archer Arash)
• Kaveh Ahangar (English: Ironsmith Kaveh)
• Tahmoures King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Fereydoon King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Touraj King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Nozar King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Manochehr King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Iraj King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty
• Tous King of Persia, Pishdadi Dynasty

[edit] Post Islam

• Espahbod Khorshid
• Farxan, The Great King of Ancient Tabaristan
• Sarouyeh King of Sari
• Dadmehr
• Vandad Hormoz
• Qaran King of Tabaristan
• Maziar or Maziyar

[edit] History of Persia

[edit] Last Four Centuries

• Zahir-eddin Mar'ashi Mazandaran Headship & Historian
• Shah Abbas I Safavid From Mother Side
• Shah Abbas II Safavid From Mother Side
• Amir Pazivarani Poet

[edit] Current Century

• Reza Pahlavi King of Persia (Iran)
• Nima Yooshij Poet

[edit] Notable Mazandaranis Today

• Ayyatollah Amoli Religious Man
• Ali Larijani
• Mehrdad BBC Correspondent Reporter [2]

[edit] See also

• Main Provinces
  • Mazandaran
  • Golestan
• Mazandarani Language

[edit] External Links

• A research about DNA of Tabari people