Monday, June 18, 2007

Talesh
By: Mojtaba Taattof Touli

Mojtaba।Taattof@gmail।com

Talesh is a historical zone located in the nourth of Iran and south of Caspian sea.People who lived there called Talesh too.According to discoveries of this land, Archaeologist estimated the time of civilization being from 5000 years ago and they believe that people that lived there were Kadous(Kadoush).As a mater of fact Kadous or Kadoush people are the encestor of Taleshan(Taleshs) and among the ancient time they lived in the mountainious contries and gradually they moved down near to sea.Taleshan for years played a major role in the milatry and independence for theirselves and any king or emperor could not commandeer them,so we can say proudly that they were independent all in history.They made a relationship with Koroush for the first time and after that many of them could enter in the milatry services and became politicians.After that in the Safavid period they had a major help to Ishmael until he could be king.
Most of Taleshan are farmer their main crop in the lowlands is rice and somewhere in highlands they raise wheat and other crop.Although rice is their main crop,they raise citrus,fruits ane ete.Talesh people's house architecture is one of their remainder things and these houses are all built by Taleshan.
Today Taleshan act in every subject and many of them are studing in the universities all over the world.They have tree monthly magazine like:Talesh,Tijarah,Bahar-e-Talesh and a weekly :Tilar, a tow weekly:Seda-ye- Talesh a quartly:Tahghighat-e-Talesh.
Although the broadcasting of the Guilan province did not allocate to Talesh people for introduce theirselves ,but Taleshs had a great activicy to this function.In fact every small part of this major nation had a very very big attempt for this.
Most of Taleshs are Moslim and there are both of Islam's branchs, Sunni and shia and they live together like brothers.

People in Ta;esh usually in summer have a trip to their mountainious contry calld "GÉ™ya" in Taleshi and they have fun that’s a heaven on earth.When you travel to their mountainious contry at the bigining of summer you can see a very vast lands covered with copses.When you see this view infront of you and you see some Taleshi house in it ,suddenly you think that you are in the paradise. Talesh people speak their own language named Taleshi.This language is in the group of Indo-Iranian language and is regognized by the languages that had spoken in the ancient Iran.
Every year some university students,researchers,analysts and travelers From Iran or Abroad come here to research on this language and must of researcher and some of the organization considered that as a endanger language.

2 comments:

Mehran said...

hi
god put power to your shoulder
it'll make you a great feel when you introduce your city
im realy glad becuse of this
with the best wishes for you
Mehran

talesh said...

tank you Mehran for your good faram of thinking.it's nice of you.I really enjoy to write and say about my birthplace.
your sincerely
Mojtaba