Amardi

The term Mardi comes from the Old Iranian word for "man" ({{langx|peo|𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹}} {{Transliteration|peo|martiya}}; from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós, "mortal").

Richard N. Frye believe that the name of the city of Amol is rooted in the word Amard, which occurs as Amui in Middle Persian.{{cite book |author=Richard N. Frye |chapter=Ancient Central Asian History Notes |title=Proceedings of the Second European Congress of Iranian Studies |publisher=ISMEO |location=Rome |page=188 |quote=town of Amul on the Amu Darya and the Amul in Mazanderan, Iran, both of which may be traced back to the migration of an Iranian tribe called Amardi or Mardi}} According to historical literature, Amol was the capital of Tapuria (modern-day Mazanderan), at least in the period starting from the Sasanian Empire to the Ilkhanate of the Mongol Empire.

Strabo mentions the name Mardi several times. He places their location to the south of the Caspian Sea in what is now Gilan and Mazanderan, in northern Iran. On his map, he mentions {{Transliteration|el|Amardos}} (and the Amardos river), the name attributed to the region of Sefidrud at the time.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gilan-iv |title=GĪLĀN |trans-title=iv. History in the Early Islamic Period |volume=X |pages=634–635 |access-date=July 20, 2017 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica}}
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Herodotus mentions a tribe with a similar name as one of the ten to fifteen Persian tribes in Persis. They lived in the valleys in between the Susis and Persis,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mhpCAAAAcAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mhpCAAAAcAAJ/page/n296 276]|quote=mardi.|title=Early Oriental History, Comprising the Histories of Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Lydia, Phrygia, and Phoenicia|last=Eadie|first=John|date=1852|publisher=Griffin|language=en}} in what in now southwestern Iran. The southern Mardi are described by Nearchus as one of the four predatory mountain peoples of the southwest, along with the Susians, Uxii, and Elymaeans. Of these four nomadic groups, they were the only tribe linguistically Iranian.{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iran-v2-peoples-pre-islamic|title=IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic – Encyclopaedia Iranica|last=electricpulp.com|website=www.iranicaonline.org|language=en|access-date=2017-08-07}}

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Median Empire.jpg|Map of the Median Empire (600 BC), showing the relative locations of the Amardian tribe.

Cup with a frieze of gazelles MET an62.84.R.jpg|Iron Age gold cup from Marlik, kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Gold cup kalardasht.jpg|The Hyrcanian Golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kelardasht, Mazandaran.

Hirschförmiges Rhyton aus Iran, Grabbeigaben, Marlik, 1200-800 v.C. (1).jpg|Deer stag Marlik

Swastika iran.jpg|Golden necklace of three Swastikas from Marlik, kept at the National Museum, Tehran.

• Phraates I
• Mardaites

• {{cite web|url=https://ia803408.us.archive.org/11/items/the-mardians-a-note-anabasis-studia-clas/The_Mardians_a_Note_Anabasis_Studia_Clas.pdf|title=The Mardians: A Note|work=Leonardo Gregoratti (Durham University, UK)|publisher=Anabasis, Studies for Classical Eastern Orientalism.}}

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