Mazanderanis (), also known as the Tabari people or Tabarestani people ( or ), are an

Iranian peoples Iranian peoples, or Iranic peoples, are the collective ethnolinguistic groups who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European langu ...

Academic American Encyclopedia By Grolier Incorporated, page 294 who are indigenous to the Caspian Sea region of

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. They are also referred to as Mazanis for short. They inhabit the southern coast of the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

and are part of the historical region known as

Tabaristan Tabaristan or Tabarestan (; ; from , ), was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. It corresponded to the present-day province of Mazandaran, which became the predominant name of the area from the 11th-century onward ...

. The

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mark the southern boundary of the area settled by the Mazanderani people.Ethnologue report for language code:mzn
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People

The population of Mazanderanis was 4,480,000 in 2019. As per a 2006 estimate, Mazandaranis numbered between 3 and 4 million. Mazanderani people are also known as the Tabari people, and traditionally call the Mazanderani language as Tabari. Their region was called Tapuria or Tapurestan, Land of Tapuris. Most Mazanderanis live on the southeastern coast of

. Their traditional professions are farming and fishing. Mazandaranis are closely related to the neighboring

Gilaki people Gilaks ( Gilaki: گيلٚکؤن, ) are an Iranian peoples native to south of Caspian sea. They form one of the main ethnic groups residing in the northern parts of Iran. Gilak people, along with the closely related Mazandarani people, comprise ...

as well as South Caucasian peoples (e.g.

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Armenians Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...

).Iran, Encarta Encyclopedi
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2009-10-31.

History

The origin of the Mazanderanis goes back to Tapuri people and

Amardi people The Amardians, widely referred to as the Amardi (and sometimes Mardi), were an ancient Iranian tribe living along the mountainous region bordering the Caspian Sea to the north, to whom the Iron Age culture at Marlik is attributed. They are said t ...

. The

Mazandaran Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari, Iran, Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is border ...

region has experienced a long reign of independent and semi-independent rulers in the centuries after the Arab invasion lasting until 1596, when

Shah Abbas I Abbas I (; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (), was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629. The third son of Shah Mohammad Khodabanda, he is generally considered one of the most important rulers ...

incorporated Mazandaran into the

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Language

300px, Percentage of Mazanderanis in Iran (2010) The

Mazanderani language Mazandarani (Mazanderani: , ''Mazeruni''; also spelled Mazani () or Tabari (); also called Taveri, Mazeruni, Tati, Geleki and Galeshi) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern Iranian languages, Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazanderani pe ...

is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by the Mazanderani people; however, most Mazandaranis are also fluent in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

. The Gilaki and Mazanderani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological features with

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. Mazanderani is closely related to Gilaki and the two languages have similar vocabularies. They preserve more of the noun declension system characteristic of older Iranian languages than Persian does.With the growth of education and the media, the distinction between Mazanderani and other Iranian languages is likely to disappear. Assistant professor Maryam Borjian of

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states that Mazanderani has different sub-dialects and there is high mutual intelligibility among Mazanderani sub-dialects. The dialects of Mazanderani are Saravi, Amoli, Baboli, Ghaemshahri, Chalusi, Nuri, Shahsavari, Ghasrani, Shahmirzadi, Damavandi, Firoozkoohi, Astarabadi, and Katouli. The native people of

Sari A sari (also called sharee, saree or sadi)The name of the garment in various regional languages include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * is a drape (cloth) and a women's garment in the Indian subcontinent. It consists of an un-sti ...

Qaem Shahr Qaem Shahr (; ) is a city in the Central District of Qaem Shahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Originally known as Ŝâhi was used until the Iranian Revolution in 1979 when the city ...

Babol Babol (; Mazandarani: ), famously known as the City of Orange Blossoms and the Global City of Wetlands, is the capital city of Babol County. This city, which was the center of Mazandaran during the Zand dynasty era, now serves as the telec ...

Amol Amol ( ; ) is a city in the Central District (Amol County), Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran province, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Amol is located on the Haraz River bank. It is ...

Nowshahr Nowshahr () is a city in the Central District of Nowshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is a port city on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. History Ruyan is a region in t ...

, Chalus, and

Tonekabon Tonekabon () is a city in the Central District of Tonekabon County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Etymology Toneka was a large and fortress-like city with a fence and a hard and stron ...

are Mazanderani people and speak the Mazanderani language.

Genetics

The Mazanderanis and the closely related Gilaks occupy the south

Caspian Caspian can refer to: *The Caspian Sea *The Caspian Depression, surrounding the northern part of the Caspian Sea *The Caspians, the ancient people living near the Caspian Sea *The Caspian languages spoken in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaij ...

region of Iran and speak languages belonging to the North-Western branch of

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. It has been suggested that their ancestors came from the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...

region, perhaps displacing an earlier group in the South Caspian. Linguistic evidence supports this scenario, in that the Gilaki and Mazanderani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological features with Caucasian languages. Based on mtDNA HV1 sequences, the Gilaki and Mazanderani most closely resemble their geographic and linguistic neighbors, namely other Iranian groups. However, their Y chromosome types most closely resemble those found in groups from the

South Caucasus The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Armenia, ...

. Researchers have interpreted these differences as demonstrating that peoples from the Caucasus settled in the south Caspian area and mated with peoples from local Iranian groups, possibly because of patrilocality. The Mazanderani and Gilaki groups are closely related on the male side with populations from the South

such as

, and

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Haplogroups

Analysis of their NRY patrilines has revealed haplogroup J2, associated with the

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diffusion of agriculturalists from the

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, to be the predominant

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lineage among the Mazanderani (subclades J2a3h-M530, J2a3b-M67 and J2a-M410, more specifically.). The next most frequently occurring lineage,

R1a1a Haplogroup R1a (R-M420), is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup which is distributed in a large region in Eurasia, extending from Scandinavia and Central Europe to Central Asia, southern Siberia and South Asia. The R1a (R-M420) subclade diverg ...

, believed to have been associated with early

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expansion into Central/ Southern

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and currently ubiquitous in that area, is found in almost 25%,. This haplogroup, with the aforementioned J2, accounts for over 50% of the entire sample. Haplogroup G2a3b, attaining significant frequency together with

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and G1, is the most commonly carried marker in the G group among Mazanderani men. The lineages E1b1b1a1a-M34 and C5-M356 comprise the remainder, of less than 10% sampled.

Notable figures

Historic

* Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir al-Tabari (838–923) was a Mazanderani historian and

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

(the most famous and widely influential person called al-Tabari). * Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Rustom al-Tabari was a

Shia Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood ...

thinker who is commonly confused with the former. He is the author of the book ''Dala'il al-Imamah'' (Proofs of the

Imamate The term imamate or ''imamah'' (, ''imāmah'') means "leadership" and refers to the office of an ''imam'' or a Muslim theocratic state ruled by an ''imam''. Theology *Imamate in Shia doctrine, the doctrine of the leadership of the Muslim commu ...

) *

Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (; c. 838 – c. 870 CE; also given as 810–855 or 808–864 also 783–858), was a Persian Muslim scholar, physician and psychologist, who produced one of the first Islamic encyclopedia of medicine titled ''Fir ...

, "Ali the scholar from Tabiristan" (838–870 A.D.), was the writer of a medical encyclopedia and the teacher of the scholar physician Zakariya al-Razi. *

Abul Hasan al-Tabari Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tabari, born in Amol, was a 10th-century Persians, Persian physician from Tabaristan. He was the physician of Rukn al-Dawla, a Buyid ruler. He was author of a compendium of medicine ''Kitab al-mu'alaja al-buqra ...

, a 10th-century Iranian physician *

Al-Tabarani Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī ash-Shāmī aṭ-Ṭabarānī () (873/874–970/971 CE/260–360 AH), commonly known as at-Tabarani (), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist known for the exten ...

(c. 821–918 AD), author of numerous

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

* Amir Pazevari, poet *

Maziar Maziar or Mazyar (Persian: مازیار) is a Persian masculine forename. Notable individuals with the name Maziar include: * Mazyar, Iranian prince from the Qarinvand dynasty The Qarinvand dynasty (also spelled Karenvand and Qarenvand), or sim ...

, Iranian aristocrat of the House of Karen

Contemporary

Reza Shah Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

, Shah of Iran (

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) from 1924 to 1941 *

Nima Yooshij Nima Yooshij or Nimā Yushij (; 11 November 1895 – 6 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiari (), was a prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularised, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new po ...

, poet, 1941 *

Mina Assadi Mina Assadi (; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author Assadi wrote her debut book, a collection of poems named ''Minas Gift'' (Armanghane Mina), at the age ...

, poet * Emamali Habibi, Olympic and world champion of free-style wrestling/Babr e Mazandaran *

Ali Larijani Ali Ardashir Larijani (born 3 June 1958) is an Iranian politician and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He has been a member of the Expediency ...

, former member of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran and Speaker of the Majlis of Iran *

Simin Ghanem Simin Ghanem ; born 11 April 1944) is an Iranian classical and pop singer. Ghanem started singing at the age of 9. She was the best singer in the "Iran's school competition" in 1962. After 7 years she started professional singing with a TV progra ...

, Iranian classical and pop singer *

Hassan Yazdani Hassan Yazdani Charati (; born 26 December 1994) is an Iranian freestyle wrestler. Yazdani is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling in two weight categories. He became Olympic champion in the 74kg category at the 2016 Summer Olymp ...

, wrestler *

Komeil Ghasemi Komeil Ghasemi (, born 27 February 1988) is a retired Iranian wrestler who won a gold medal in the men's freestyle 120 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ghasemi was awarded his Olympic gold medal after the two wrestlers ahead of him failed d ...

, wrestler *

Mohammad Javad Larijani Mohammad-Javad Ardeshir Larijani (; born ) is an Iranian conservative politician and former diplomat. He is currently a top adviser to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in foreign affairs and secretary of High Council for Human rights, Judiciary of Is ...

, mathematician and former member of the Majlis *

Sadegh Larijani Sadiq Ardashir Larijani (born 12 March 1963) is an Iranian cleric and politician who currently serves as the chairman of Expediency Discernment Council since 2018. He previously served as the sixth chief justice of Iran from 2009 to 2019. Larij ...

, former head of the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran * Mohammad Zohari, poet *

Mohsen Bengar Mohsen Bengar (, born 6 July 1979 in Nur) is a retired Iranian football defender and current coach. Club career Early career He began his career in Shamoushak Noshahr, then moved to Sepahan in 2004 and won two Hazfi Cup titles, also playing ...

, footballer * Delkash, singer *

Ali Pahlavan Ali Pahlavan (; born May 1, 1975) is an Iranian–Australian musician, singer-songwriter, lyricist and composer. He started his professional music career in 1999 by establishing the first Iranian mixed-gender pop band, Arian (). The band subseq ...

, singer *

Ehsan Tabari Ehsan Tabari (; 8 February 1917 – 29 April 1989) was an Iranian philosopher, poet, and a literary giant who played a major role in modernization in literature and cultural enlightenment in the twentieth century in Iran. He also fostered a deep ...

, Marxist theoretician *

Noureddin Kianouri Noureddin Kianouri (; 1915–1999) was an Iranian construction engineer, urban planner, professor of Bauakademie der DDR in Berlin, and a communist political leader. He studied first at University of Tehran until 1934 and later in Germany from 1 ...

, politician *

Parinaz Izadyar Parinaz Izadyar (; born August 30, 1985) is an Iranian actress. She is mostly known for her willingness to play dramatic roles, making her one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation. Izadyar has received various accolades, including a C ...

, actress *

Parviz Natel-Khanlari Parviz Natel Khanlari (; March 20, 1914 – August 23, 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at Tehran University. Biography Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University in 19 ...

, writer/translator *

Reza Allamehzadeh Reza Allamehzadeh () is an Iranian-born Dutch filmmaker, film critic and writer who lives in the Netherlands. He is primarily known for his films about refugees, such as ''The Guests of Hotel Astoria'' (1988), and the documentary ''Holy Crime'' (1 ...

, director * Behdad Salimikordasiabi, Olympic weightlifter *

Abdollah Movahed Abdollah Movahed Ardabili (, born March 20, 1940) is a retired Iranian lightweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1968. He served as flag bearer for Iran at the Opening Ceremony of the ...

, freestyle wrestler - Olympic champion *

Abbas-Ali Soleimani Abbas-Ali Soleimani (; 25 May 1947 – 26 April 2023) was an Iranian Shia cleric (ayatollah) and member of the Assembly of Experts. Life Soleimani was born into a religious family in Savadkuh, Mazandaran province, Mazandaran, on 25 May 1947. H ...

, Shia cleric and politician *

Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri (19 October 1944 – 18 August 2020) was an Iranian cleric and diplomat. During the 1980s, Taskhiri served as the Iranian representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and was involved in promoting Iranian int ...

, Shia cleric and diplomat *

Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari Grand Ayatollah Yasubeddin Rastegar Jooybari (Persian: يعسوب الدين رستگار جويباري) (born 1940) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmad ...

, Shia marja *

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, Shia marja and politician *

Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi (July 21, 1897 – August 29, 1990) () was an Iraqi Shia ''Grand Ayatollah'' and Marja'. Education He first mastered tajweed and learned the doctrines of tafsir which had been taught to him by ...

, Arab-descended Mazanderani Iranian Shia cleric *

Mirza Hashem Amoli Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani (; 26 February 189925 February 1993) was an Iranian Shia Marja' and scholar of jurisprudence. Amoli was the father of Ali Larijani, Sadegh Larijani, Mohammad Javad Larijani and Fazel Larijani who have held ...

, Shia marja *

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, chess super grandmaster and the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2,800

Assimilated populations in Mazandaran

In the

Safavid The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...

Afsharid The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly referred to as Afsharid Iran or the Afsharid Empire, was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, establishing the Afsharid dynasty that wo ...

, and

Qajar The Guarded Domains of Iran, alternatively the Sublime State of Iran and commonly called Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani. ''Iran an ...

eras Mazandaran was settled by large numbers of

, and other

peoples of the Caucasus The peoples of the Caucasus, or Caucasians, are a diverse group comprising more than 50 ethnic groups throughout the Caucasus. By language group Language families indigenous to the Caucasus Caucasians who speak languages which have l ...

, whose descendants still live across Mazandaran.^ Muliani, S. (2001) Jaygah-e Gorjiha dar Tarikh va Farhang va Tammadon-e Iran. (The Georgians’ position in the Iranian history and civilization.) Esfahan: Yekta The names of many towns, villages and neighbourhoods in Mazandaran reflect this legacy by bearing variations of the name "Gorji" (i.e., Georgian), although most of the Georgians are assimilated into the mainstream Mazanderanis. The history of Georgian settlement is described by

Iskandar Beg Munshi Iskandar Beg Munshi (; 1561/62 – 1633/34) was an IranianPaulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, Felicity Heal. The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles. — Oxford University Press, 2013. — P. 256. court scribe and chronicler, who is principally kn ...

, the author of the 17th century ''

History of Alam Aray Abbasi The ''Tarikh-e Alam-ara-ye Abbasi'' () is a Persian-language chronicle covering the history of the early Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, particularly Shah Abbas I (). Its author was his court historian and scribe Iskandar Beg Munshi, who c ...

''. In addition, European travelers such as

Chardin Chardin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (1699–1779), French painter noted for his still life works * Jean Chardin, (1643–1713), French jeweller and traveller, author of ''The Trave ...

and Della Valle have written about their encounters with the Georgian, Circassian and Armenian Mazanderanis.

References

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