Azerbaijan is the cultural capital of Ariana

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In the Aryan culture, Azerbaijan is one of the most important Aryan regions and lands, as in the Sasanian Pahlavi literature, Azerbaijan is the most important part of Aryan, or in its modern interpretation, Iran. 

Azargashnesb Fire Temple is located in Shiz, Azerbaijan, which is sometimes called Shiz Fire Temple. According to the ancient writings, Azargashnasab Fire Temple was founded by Ki Khosro Shah Kiani. According to the opinion of many thinkers, Ki Khosro is the most famous king of Shahnameh. He is the son of Siavash Pakzad Roud, who followed the right path and was a Yazdan devotee. Ki Khosrow's link with Azerbaijan emphasizes the religious and cultural importance of Azerbaijan, because according to the legend, the fire temple of Azarghashnab was the first and most important fire temple of the three fire temples of Iranshahr.  

In ancient times, the three fire temples for the three social classes, which we mentioned earlier, was an Aryan tradition, and in the ancient writings, Jamshid Shah was the founder of it, and this classification was respected among European nations. The fire temple of Azarbarzin was the third fire temple of the three fire temples, which was special for farmers and was located in Khorasan, the second fire temple was Azargashensab, which was in Azerbaijan and was special for kings, soldiers and soldiers, and according to many, it was the most important fire temple, but some consider the fire temple of Azar Farnbagh, which belonged to the Mobdans and nobles, to be the most important fire temple that was in Fars.  

Therefore, Azerbaijan is the place of the most important and the best fire temple of the Aryans, which is the special fire temple of the soldiers, armies and kings of Buddha, if we do not consider the fire temple of Azar Farnbagh as the first fire temple. 

On the other hand, the founder of the fire temple of Azargashnasab Kikhusro is the king of Kiani, who is much older than the Prophet Zoroaster, and this is a sign of the longevity of Azerbaijan and the Aryan identity of Azerbaijan. 

We said earlier that fire was sacred among Aryans, and of course we said that the sacredness and reverence of fire among Aryans is not because of Zoroastrianism and the Zoroastrian religion, and fire is basically much older than Zoroastrian religion, and only in the Zoroastrian religious tradition have they respected this ancient Aryan belief. It was a fire that was sacred for Aryans of Azeri or Indian descent. 

In the same way, we said that Azerbaijan is very important in Pahlavi literature, in Sasanian Pahlavi writings, Zoroaster the Prophet was considered to be from the village of Ragh in Azerbaijan, and Gestasp, the king of Iran, was from the village of Nuzar. Of course, you know that today this ancient idea has been questioned among a group of Iranologists, and they consider Zoroaster the prophet and Gestasp to be a follower of Zoroaster from Khorasan and Eastern Iran. However, during the Sassanid era, the researchers and archaeologists of that era, with the documents and knowledge they had, considered Zoroaster the prophet and Gestasp the king as natives of Azerbaijan, for which there is evidence. One of the reasons why Azerbaijan is called the homeland and birthplace of Zoroaster is its connection with Ki-Khosro, if Ki-Khosro was the king of Khorasan, the possibility that he could reach the distant land of Azerbaijan and found a place of worship that will remain until today cannot be true unless the capital of Ki-Khosro Shah of Iran is in Azerbaijan.  

Basically, the first location of Iran and the origin of the Aryans is one of the challenging cases of Iranology. It is mentioned in the ancient writings that Iran was in Azerbaijan and this was proof of the importance of Azerbaijan for the Aryans. 

As we said earlier, Herodotus, the Greek historian, says that the Medes were called Arians before. It should be mentioned that before it was named Azerbaijan during the Seleucid and Parthian eras, Azerbaijan was called Mad Khard or Small Mad, which was named Mad Khard due to its religious position in Mad and later to Azerbaijan, which means the place where the holy fire is kept. The foundation of Azerbaijan as a part of the ancient Madh formed Ariana, which was one of the documents in sync with the hypothesis of the position of Iran-Vij in Azerbaijan. Let's look again at Iran-Vij, which means the origin and land of the Aryans, and Madh, the land of which Azerbaijan was a part, was called Ariana. 

Strabod also mentions several other lands such as Sogd, Balkh, and Pars besides Medes, and calls all of them Ariana, and the Roman historian Diodorus says that Zoroaster preached the laws of the good spirit among the Aryans. And Azerbaijan was one of the known Zoroastrian lands. Although we have no secrets, Azerbaijan was Iranvij, but we bring this possibility here.  

There was and still is a city in Azerbaijan whose name is Ardabil, derived from Erte, which in Aryan culture means cosmic law, which has been known by the same name since the past. Erte was later called Esha. 

The naming of Azerbaijan is due to the fact that after the defeat of Emperor Darius III against Alexander, one of his generals named Atropatin, which means the keeper of the sacred fire, kept the independence of Azerbaijan, Alexander never set foot in Azerbaijan, this holy Aryan land. As we said, the meaning of the name of the ruler of Azerbaijan, who was called Mad Khord at that time, was Atropatan, which means the keeper of the sacred fire, so he was a religious person or had a religious position, and the choice of Mad Khord, which was a religious land, could not have been meaningless. By the way, they called Mad Kherd Atropategan because of the name of Atropaten's family. It is necessary to remember that Azerbaijan is the place where the sacred fire is kept, and these two cases, the place where the sacred fire is kept in Shiz and the fire temple of Azargashnesab, and the name of the Atropatgan family, which is called Azarbadgan in Pahlavi Persian, are called Azerbaijan, which means that two important reasons have reached the same name.  

The names of two of the local kings of the Atropategan family that existed during the Parthian era were named Ariobarzen. Yutab, a famous Iranian lady, was the sister of Ariobarzan, the king of Azerbaijan, who became the wife of the son of a Roman general and Caesar, so that the two Aryan, Azeri and Roman tribes could unite. From the past, Azerbaijan has considered itself a brother of Persians and Romans and has been a brother to every Aryan.  

Azerbaijan has given many honors to the Aryan world and Iran, such as Sarkh Jamgan and Khorram Dinan Azadeh, which brought the caliphate to its knees for ten years, and if it was not for the use and joining of Turkish soldiers to the army of the caliphs, the caliphate would never have been able to defeat Azari Sarkh Jamgan. And among the great ones of Azerbaijan, let's mention the pious Safavids, the great Shah Abbas, this powerful king, let's mention the Yazdan-worshipping kings like Shah Ismail, Shah Tahmasb, and Khudabandeh, who were Aryan lords.