The world is a place containing various racial and lingual
groups. So that as far as this issue is concerned there
is no difference between developed and developing
countries. Iran is not an exception, because it can be
called a multi-national or multi-racial community.
The name of Azarbaijan has been one of the most
renowned geographical names of Iran since 2000 years
ago. Azar is the same as “Ashur” which means fire. In
Pahlavi inscriptions, Azarbaijan has been mentioned as
‘Oturpatekan’, while it has been mentioned Azarbayegan
and Azarpadegan in Persian writings. In this paper,
attempt is made to study the race and people living there
from the perspective of anthropology and ethnology.
In fact, it is based on this question that whether or not,
the people resided in Atropatgan have an Aryan race
as other Iranians? According to anthropological and
ethnical criteria of people in Atropatgan, we came to
this conclusion that they have the same race (i.e. Aryan)
similar as other Iranians who are the reminders and
grandchildren of Aryan and Parse Medes. Therefore, the
opposite is completely rejected on the view of the racial
characteristics and all documents accounts for their Aryan
race