Takab: Difference between revisions

==Etymology==

Shiz is the ancient name used during [[Persian Empire]] for Takab. Takab means one narrow water way in [[Persian language]]. Tak means one or alone and Ab means water. Takab was originally known as Tikan Təpə by its native Turkic [[Afshar people]] until 1941 when Iran's [[Academy of Persian Language and Literature]] officially changed it to Takab.{{cn|date=May 2022}} Afshar people are one of the [[Oghuz Turks|Oghuz Turkic peoples]].<ref>{{cite web|first=P.|last=Oberling|title=Afshar|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afsar-one-of-the-twenty-four-original-guz-turkic-tribes-t|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429162916/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afsar-one-of-the-twenty-four-original-guz-turkic-tribes-t|publisher=Encyclopedia Iranica|archive-date=April 29, 2011|quote=AFŠĀR, one of the twenty-four original Ḡuz Turkic tribes|access-date=July 9, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> These originally nomadic Oghuz tribes moved from Central Asia and initially settled in [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|Iranian Azerbaijan]], [[Azerbaijan]] republic, and [[Eastern Turkey]]. Later some of them were relocated by the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavids]] to [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] and [[Mazandaran province|Mazandaran]].<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gzpdq679oJwC&pg=PA89 Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook]'', ed. Massoume Price, (ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 75, 89.</ref>

 

==People==