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English: This figure shows the place names mentioned in the Avesta. It, therefore, demonstrates the geographical horizon of the early Zoroastrians during the Young Avestan period.
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 Geotemporal data
Date depicted between 900 and 500 BC
Map type historical map
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Notes made with Inkscape; background from demis.nl Mapper., which are public domain.
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List of source materials:

  • Gershevitch, Ilya (1967) The Avestan Hymn to Mithra., Cambridge University Press
  • Gnoli, Gherardo (1980) Zoroaster's time and homeland: a study on the origins of Mazdeism and related problems, Istituto universitario orientale
  • Grenet, Frantz (2005) "An Archaeologist's Approach to Avestan Geography" in Birth of the Persian Empire Volume I, I.B.Tauris ISBN: 978-0-7556-2459-1.
  • Humbach, Helmut (1998) Zamyad Yasht - Yasht 19 of the Younger Avesta. Text, Translation, Commentary, Harrassowitz Verlag - Wiesbaden
  • Helmut Humbach, "Die awestische Länderliste," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und Ostasiens 4, 1960, pp. 34–46. Idem, "Ptolemaios-Studien," 5, 1961, pp. 68–74.
  • Witzel, Michael (2000) "The Home of the Aryans" in Festschrift fuer Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag, J. H. Roell


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geographical place names mentioned in the Avesta

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