ON THE ETHNIC STRUCTURE OF MEDIA

Abstract

The study of the history of Media is very significant for Armenia too, as the past of both countries is closely related to each other in different historical periods. In the following article the information about the Gelae, the Mardi, the Anariacae, the Derbices, kept in the primary source, is being discussed. Research shows that the given tribes belonged to the Iranian World without any exceptions. Some important and wrinkled issues on the historical geography of the 10th Satrapy were examined in the article, the elucidation of which has an important meaning for studying the history of the Achaemenid Empire and Ancient Iran.