Originally posted by Firdousi
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Most of the land was split up by the Brits, true....but they were already split up to a large degree before the Brits went there in the form of regional fiefdoms, warring princes and empires and so on. The Brits and Russians did eventually make problems worse, but things were pretty tumultuous prior to them as well.
This notion of a common culture and language I'm also a bit skeptical about; in previous discussions we highlighted the Khwarzem Shah, Ghorids, Saljuks, Safavi and so on. These groups may have had a lingua franca, but they had distinct cultural identities. Not all of them were "Aryan". It's more accurate to say they had OVERLAPPING/Intersecting culture and language, but were in themselves distinct. This term Iransahr, Arya Vaejya, seems as much a pipedream as Pashtuns have with Pashtunkhwah.
Kemet, Mesr and Egypt, cannot be compared to Sham, there was never a Kingdom of Sham, Sham was a geographic designation first and foremost.


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