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The first wave consisted of the Indo-Aryan migration into the Levant, seemingly founding the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria [173] (c. 1600–1350 BCE), [174] and the migration south-eastward of the Vedic people, over the Hindu Kush into northern India. [175]
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The term Aryan has long been used to denote the Indo-Iranians, because Ā́rya was the self-designation of the ancient speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages, specifically the Iranian and the Indo-Aryan peoples, collectively known as the Indo-Iranians.
Map 4: The approximate extent of the Vedic period Āryāvarta is highlighted in pale yellow Map 5: This detailed map shows the locations of kingdoms and republics mentioned in the Indian epics or Bharata Khanda. Proto-Indo-Iranians (common ancestors of the Iranian, Nuristani and Indo-Aryan peoples) (Proto-Indo-Iranian speakers)
Identifications are made on the basis of how well, if at all, the projected migration routes and times of migration fit the distribution of Indo-European languages, and how closely the sociological model of the original society reconstructed from Proto-Indo-European lexical items fits the archaeological profile.
This framework, which tied the Indo-European language family to an imagined migration of an Aryan nation, shaped nationalist projects in Europe and Iran. [92] Aryanism conveniently justified European colonial views of Indian and Persian civilizations while influencing Iranian nationalism to adopt an exclusionary identity framework. [92]
The earliest Indo-Aryan migration to Assam is estimated to have occurred between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE [1] —not earlier than 500 BCE. [2] The earliest epigraphic record suggests that the Indo-Aryan migration began latest by the middle of the 4th century CE. [ 3 ]
Map of various Iranic nomadic peoples in Central Asia during the Iron ... (see Indo-European migrations), Kurgan theory and the later Indo-Aryan migration Iron Age ...