Mardaites
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The Mardaites or al-Jarajima were early Christians following Chalcedonian Christianity in the Nur Mountains. Little is known about their ethnicity, but it has been speculated that they might have been
Main areas under Mardaite control in the Levant, c. 7th century AD
Amardi
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The Amardians, widely referred to as the Amardi, 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 att
Mardaites
…Little is known about their ethnicity, but it has been speculated that they might have been Persians (see, for a purely linguistic hypothesis, the Amardi, located south of the Caspian Sea in classical times) with other theories placing them as Armenians or even Greeks native to the Levant. Their other…
Iron Age gold cup from Marlik, kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
The Hyrcanian Golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kelardasht, Mazandaran.
Deer stag Marlik
Golden necklace of three Swastikas from Marlik, kept at the National Museum, Tehran.