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I was a kid with my family in the 90s. My dad worked in Shomali and Mandali so i got to see some of those cities and interacted with the localsOriginally Posted by Borealis
Between what years were you living there?
"Although many of the leaders of the ʿAbbasid army were, or at least claimed to be, of Arab descent, it is clear that most of the rank and file were of Persian origin. There were also a number of families of Iranian notables, the Barmakids of Balḵ for example, and the Sulid family, descendents of the native princes of Gorgān. These military groups were settled in certain defined areas of the city, mostly in the district to the northwest of the round city which came to be known as the Ḥarbīya and the names of the different groups give us a clear idea of their geographical origins. As might be expected, the vast majority of them came from Khorasan and Transoxania, where the ʿAbbasid armies had been recruited, rather than from western Iran or Azerbaijan"
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/b...on-1-pr-Mongol
I was surprised too, I've seen some results from Maysan and Wasit provinces with Arabic names that come out fully Kurdish or Iranian. I think the geographical distribution of these ethnicities were far more fluid in the past than they are at the moment.
The census for Nasiriyah, a supposedly Bedouin derived town near the Euphrates, from British times showed there was about 10% Iranics living there.
In 1920, Nasiriyah had 6,523 inhabitants. The population was ethnically diverse with Arab Muslims accounting for 72.7% of the inhabitants, Jews 8%, Mandeans 9.7%, Persians 4.6%, Lurs 4.3% and Christians, Turks, and Indians forming the remainder of the population.[3]
Yes the Shia shrine cities were settled heavily by Persians(many of whom later became Arabized). But there are millions of Iranian pilgrims that go there so knowing Farsi is advantageous for anyone running a business there.
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