Having begotten the Alans-Ossets in the Nothern Caucases ancient nomadic peoples of the Caspian Area, who spoke the Eastern Iranian languages and their dialects (the Skythes, Savromats, Sarmats), were in A.D. replaced by ethnic groups of the Western Iranian branch (the Persians, Guilyans, Mazandarans, Tats, Talyshes and others). The number of these peoples in the Astrakhan oblast (the Tajiks, Talyshes, Tats, Kurds and pertly Lyuli Islamic Gipsies) increased during the last decade. And the former relations were resumed in the Caspian provinces of Iran, citizens of which have again started visiting Astrakhan.
