Editing Makran (section)

==Etymology==
The southern part of Balochistan is called ''Kech Makran'' on the Pakistani side and Makran on the Iranian side which is also the name of a former Iranian province.<ref name="Makran">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Makran|url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Makran-region-Asia|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=18 June 2016|archive-date=7 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307222126/https://www.britannica.com/place/Makran-region-Asia|url-status=live}}</ref> The location corresponds to that of the [[Maka (satrapy)|Maka satrapy]] in [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]] times. The Sumerian trading partners of [[Magan (civilization)|Magan]] are identified with Makran.{{sfn|Hansman|1973|p=555}} In [[Varahamihira]]'s [[Brihat Samhita]], there is a mention of a tribe called ''Makara'' inhabiting the lands west of [[India]]. [[Arrian]] used the term ''[[Ichthyophagoi|Ichthyophagi]]'' (Ancient Greek for "fish eaters") for inhabitants of coastal areas, which has led to a suggestion to derive ''Makran'' from the modern Persian term ''māhī khorān'', meaning "fish eaters".<ref name="PoloYule1993">{{citation |editor1-last=Yule |editor1-first=Sir Henry |editor2-last=Cordier |editor2-first=Henri |title=The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, Volume II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TexF3FC87YC&pg=PA402 |year=1993 |orig-year=first published 1903, revised 1920 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-27587-1 |pages=402–}}</ref>