Iran & Caucasia

Contacts between Iran and Caucasia

• Fridrik Thordarson: Linguistic Contacts between Iran and the Caucasus
• Pierre Thorez: Physical Geography, Population, and Economy of the Caucasus
• The Irano-Russian Wars’ Ethno-Demographic Consequences in the South Caucasus (pdf)
• Rouben Galichian: Resource for Maps and Historical References for the Southern Caucasus

      Achaemenids & the Caucasus

• Bruno Jacobs: Achaemenid Rule in the Caucasus
• Palaces of the Achaemenid Empire found in Arran (modern Republic of Azerbaijan)

      Zoroastrian & Mithraic legacy of the Caucasus

• Farroukh Jorat: The Atashgah (Fire temple) of Baku
• Zoroastrian and Mithraic Sites of the Caucasus

      Jews and the Caucasus

• Iranian-speaking Jews of the Caucasus
• Is Juhuri an Endangered Language?

      Military History of Iran and the Caucasus

• Farrokh, K. (2024). An analysis of the military history and martial culture of ancient Iran and the Caucasus in the pre-Islamic era. Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, Vol.2, No.2, Special Issue, pp.7-61.

The Peoples of the Caucasus and Northern Iran

• Nasidze, I., Quinque, D., Rahmani, M., Alemohamad, S.Y., Stoneking, M. (2006). Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations. Current Biology, 16, 668–673.
• Farroukh Jorat: A Survey and History of the Persian population of the Caucasus
• Music of the Lezgians

Daghestan and Iran

• Runes from Aknada in Daghestan
• Photographs from Ancient Kahib, Daghestan – Additional Images from Kahib in Daghestan

Circassia and Iran

• Book on Circassia by Adel Basqhawi

Armenia and Iran

• Armina (Armenia) in the Achaemenid Empire
• Heinrich Hubschmann: Position of Armenian within scope of Indo-European Languages
• Dave Taba: Small Word Sample – Iranian Character of Armenian Language.Citations (pdf)
• Ancient winery found in Armenia
• World’s Oldest Leather Shoe
• The Zoroastrian Fire-Temple of Ani
• The “Wings of Ahura Mazda” perpetuated in the design of the Armenian Khatchkar and other East Christian Crosses
• Tehran’s Armenian Church of Saints Teddy and Bartholomew
• S. Peter Cowe: Church of Etchmiadzin (Ejmiatsin)
• A Stroll Through Isfahan’s Armenian Julfa Quarter
• The Music of Armenia

Georgia and Iran

• Iranian Elements in Georgian Art and Archaeology
• Keith Hitchins: History of Iranian-Georgian Relations
• Fatema Soudavar-Farmanfarmaian (2009). Georgia and Iran: Three Millennia of Cultural Relations: An Overview. Journal of Persianate Studies 2 (2009) 1-43 (pdf). Posted with permission by Brill. Posted on-line: Georgia and Iran: Part I and Part 2.
•  Aleksandre Gvakharia: Literary Contacts of Georgia with Persia
• Photos of the Atashgah (Zoroastrian fire temple) in Tbilisi, Georgia
• Nowruz in Georgia and the Georgian Legacy in Iran –  نوروز در گرجستان و میراث گرجستان در ایران – pdf -see also  Nowruz declared as a national holiday in Georgia (Report by the Georgian News Agency on March 21, 2010).
• —سفرنامه گرجستان علی بابایی درمنی-Ali Babaie Darmani: Journey to Georgia – Part I and Part II (in Persian)
• Payvand News of Iran: The Northernmost Zoroastrian Fire Temple in the World (in the Republic of Georgia)
• Dmitri Ermakov: Chronicler of the Caucasus
• The Last Iranian Tiger in Georgia
• The Mushtaid (Mojtahed) Garden in Tbilisi
• Two Hand Colored 19th Century Photos of Tiflis (Tbilisi)
• The Music of Georgia

Recommended Books

• Shireen T. Hunter: The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus

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See also

• Azarbaijan & Arran (Modern Republic of Azarbaijan)
• “The Ossetians” in Arthurian and European Culture and Ancient Iran (Eire-An)