The Role of Baloch Tribes in the making of Persian Empire before the Dawn of Islam: A historical sketch
Keywords:
Achamanean, Achitaphegoi ,Agbatana, Alexander The Great, Anusherwan, Aryan, Ariboi(Mountains Tribes) Baloch (istan nation tribes), Belos,Cyrus the Great, Paras,Gedrosia, Haerkania, Herodotus, Khanate of Kalat, Koch, Makkoran, Med, Mehmood of Ghazna, Parsipolis (Astakhar), Persia, Persian Empire, Sasanids, Shah-Nama Firdosi, Seistan,Abstract
A lot of books are available in the market about the history of Baloch and Balochistan. This topic was always important for researchers, readers, historians and intellectuals, but now-a-days it has sharper. In the available sources the historians gave different opinions about the origin and the geography of Baloch tribes. This is true that all these historians have their own opinion, which are different to the others, but all these historians accept the significant role of the Baloch tribes in the making of Persian Empire before the dawn of Islam. After the Aryan invasion many Aryan and non-Aryan groups established their government in the different parts of Persia. Medians Achamaneans ,Parthians and Sasanids groups ruled over Persia, before, the dawn of Islam, and made greatest Empire in the world and Persia got place in history. In the era of these groups the Persian civilization reached on peak, and the Persian Empire had been made super power of his time.
The objectives behind this study are to search the Baloch tribes with their significant role in history. This study is descriptive in nature and the Primary and Secondary, both kind sources were consulted for the purpose.
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