A) «..and the Medes (Iranians of what is now north-west Iran)… » EIEC (1997:30). B) «Archaeological evidence for the religion of the Iranian-speaking Medes of the ...» (Diakonoff 1985, s. 140). C) «... succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Iranian-speaking Median tribes» (fra «Media (ancient region, Iran)», Encyclopædia Britannica). D) «Proto-Iranian split into Western (Median, ancient Persian, and others) and Eastern (Scythian, Ossetic, Saka, Pamir and others)... » (Kuz'mina, Elena E. (2007): The origin of the Indo-Iranians, J. P. Mallory (red.), BRILL, s. 303, ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5) ...
Jacobs, Bruno (9. januar 2006): «Achaemenid Rule In Caucasus» i: Encyclopædia Iranica. Sitat: «Achaemenid rule in the Caucasus region was established, at the latest, in the course of the Scythian campaign of Darius I in 513-12 BCE. The Persian domination of the cis-Caucasian area (the northern side of the range) was brief, and archeological findings indicate that the Great Caucasus formed the northern border of the empire during most, if not all, of the Achaemenid period after Darius...»
