Matian
Matian (मतियान) Mathiyan (मतियान) Matiana (मतियाना)[1] Matiani (मतियानी) is gotra of Jats [2] found in Afghanistan.[3]
History
Matiani in Lake Urmia
Lake Matianus (Latin: Lacus Matianus) is an old name for Lake Urmia. It was known as the Lower Nairi Sea (Lake Van was the Upper Nairi Sea) during the Armenian Nairi-Urartu period and as the Lower Armenian Sea during the Kingdom of Armenia. It was the center of the Mannaean Kingdom, a potential Mannaean settlement represented by the ruin mound of Hasanlu was on the south side of Lake Matianus. Mannae was overrun by a people who were called Matiani or Matieni, an Iranic people variously identified as Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, or Cimmerian. It is not clear whether the lake took its name from the people or the people from the lake, but the country came to be called Matiene or Matiane.
In Afghanistan
H. W. Bellew[4] writes that in the course of time the offspring of the children of Bibi Matu became very numerous, and were collectively styled Mati, because Shah Husen was not an Afghan. Such is the native tradition. I may note here that Mati is the name of a large and important Persian tribe, anciently inhabiting Northern Persia, between the modern Hamadan and Nishapur, and called Matianoi by Strabo (xi. 8). Pliny also mentions the Matiani ("Nat. Hist., vi. 18) along with the Sarangae and others, whose situation was west of the modern Helmand, and south of the Ghor country. In Afghanistan the
[Page-13]: early seat of the Mati is said to have been the district of Matistan, in the Arghandab valley. The descendants of Bibi Mahi are included along with the Mati.
Distribution in Uttar Pradesh
Villages in Muzaffarnagar district
There are some village of Mathiyan in District Muzaffarnagar such as Mundet, Khadder, Pindora.
Notable persons
- Ajay Mathiyan
Reference
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. म-30
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998
- ↑ H. W. Bellew:An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan/Ethnology of Afghanistan, p.12
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.12-13
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