A) "Archaeological evidence for the religion of the Iranian-speaking Medes of the ..." (Diakonoff 1985, 140쪽) harv error: 대상 없음: CITEREFDiakonoff1985 (help). B) "...and the Medes (Iranians of what is now north-west Iran)..." 틀:EIEC. C) "... succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Median tribes" (from Encyclopædia Britannica[1]). D) "Proto-Iranian split into Western (Median, and others) and Eastern (Scythian, Ossetic, Saka, Pamir and others)..." (Kuz'mina, Elena E. (2007), 《The origin of the Indo-Iranians》, J. P. Mallory (ed.), BRILL, 303쪽, ISBN978-90-04-16054-5)
