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harahrvati

English translation: Harahvati

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Serbo-Croat term or phrase:Harahvati
English translation:Harahvati
Entered by: Mira Stepanovic

09:28 Feb 15, 2010
Serbo-Croat to English translations [PRO]
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Serbo-Croat term or phrase: harahrvati
U studenom 2006. održan je u Prelogu/Hrvatsko Zagorje, simpozij od porijeklu Hrvata, gdje je prevladavala teorija o Iranskom porijeklu Hrvata. Ova postavka nije točna, kao što ni dijete ne može biti korijen vlastitog oca i djeda. Korijen svih modernih naroda slijedi iz duhovnih praroditelja Brahmana i Sarasvati/Šakti i njihova duhovna sljedba: Harahvata / Arhata / Hrvata / Kruata / Kuraiša / Croatia (Kroeiša)... čine da su brojni narodi svijeta braća u etničkom i duhovnom slijedu Harahvata.
Bogdan Petrovic
Serbia
Local time: 17:44
Harahvati
Explanation:
Harahvati tribe
http://www.raceandhistory.com/Science/croatia.htm
THE IRANIAN THEORY OF CROATIAN ORIGINS According to S. Sakac and other orientalists and archaeologists the word "Croat" is derived from the name of an Iranian or Persian tribe known as the Harahvati. Today the Croats call themselves "Hrvati" in their own language. The word "Harahvati" appears in Iranian inscriptions from the time of Darius the Great (521- 485 B.C.). That monarch divided his empire into twenty-odd satrapies or provinces. One of these was called "Harauutis". During the administration of Xerxes this name changed to "Haravatis." Still another variation, "Harouvatis", appears on a map of lands subject to the Achaemenid kings of old Iran. This province occupied the district of Helm and the surrounding area in the vicinity of Kandahar in modern Afghanistan. The name "Harahvati" appears in Darius' "List of Peoples", and the Greek commentators of the Alexandrian epoch referred to them also. Carvings in the Persian royal palaces excavated at Persepolis show the Harahvatis leading camels and bearing gifts to offer to the King of Kings. For a long time, however, the etymological connection between "Hrvati" (Croats) and "Haralivati" or "Haravati" was over looked because the Greeks and Macedonians, after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire in 333 B.C., changed the name of the province of Harahvati to the Greek form, Arachosia. Thus for more than two thousand years the original appellation was forgotten.
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Mira Stepanovic
Serbia
Local time: 17:44
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Harahvati


Explanation:
Harahvati tribe
http://www.raceandhistory.com/Science/croatia.htm
THE IRANIAN THEORY OF CROATIAN ORIGINS According to S. Sakac and other orientalists and archaeologists the word "Croat" is derived from the name of an Iranian or Persian tribe known as the Harahvati. Today the Croats call themselves "Hrvati" in their own language. The word "Harahvati" appears in Iranian inscriptions from the time of Darius the Great (521- 485 B.C.). That monarch divided his empire into twenty-odd satrapies or provinces. One of these was called "Harauutis". During the administration of Xerxes this name changed to "Haravatis." Still another variation, "Harouvatis", appears on a map of lands subject to the Achaemenid kings of old Iran. This province occupied the district of Helm and the surrounding area in the vicinity of Kandahar in modern Afghanistan. The name "Harahvati" appears in Darius' "List of Peoples", and the Greek commentators of the Alexandrian epoch referred to them also. Carvings in the Persian royal palaces excavated at Persepolis show the Harahvatis leading camels and bearing gifts to offer to the King of Kings. For a long time, however, the etymological connection between "Hrvati" (Croats) and "Haralivati" or "Haravati" was over looked because the Greeks and Macedonians, after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire in 333 B.C., changed the name of the province of Harahvati to the Greek form, Arachosia. Thus for more than two thousand years the original appellation was forgotten.

Mira Stepanovic
Serbia
Local time: 17:44
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
PRO pts in category: 4
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hvala!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natasa Djurovic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_religion
40 mins
  -> Hvala Nataša!
agree  Milan Djukić
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