Editing Baloch people (section)

===Antiquity===
During the rule of [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]], The Baloch were among rebellious [[Medes]] and [[Parthia]]ns who supported [[Bardiya]] against [[Darius the Great|Darius I]] and later allied with [[Darius III]] in [[Battle of Gaugamela|The Battle of Gaugamela]] with [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]].<ref name=":Balochistan and its ancient civilization2">{{cite book |last1=Afshar |first1=Iraj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXFIAAAAMAAJ |title=Balochistan and its ancient civilization |date=1992 |publisher=Printing and Publishing Organization of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance |pages=89–90,101,127,376 |language=fa}}</ref>{{sfn|Dashti, The Baloch and Balochistan|2012|pp=57}}

Agha Mir Nasir Khan Ahmadzai the author of Seven-volume book on the history of Baloch and Balochistan,<ref name=":Ahmedzai2">{{cite book |author=Mir Naseer Khan Ahmedzai Kambarani Baloch |title=A History of the Baloch and Balochistan (2023) |asin=B0D66DTRMW}}</ref> connects Balochs with [[Medes]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmadzai Baloch |first1=Mir Naseer Khan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYWGAAAAIAAJ |title=Tārīk̲h̲-i Baloc va Balocistān, Volume 1 |date=1988 |publisher=Balocī Ikaiḍamī |pages=36 |language=urdu}}</ref> and considers them descendants of the Medes, the people of [[ancient Iran]]. He makes mention of all Baloch tribes<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmadzai Baloch |first1=Mir Naseer Khan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYWGAAAAIAAJ |title=Tārīk̲h̲-i Baloc va Balocistān, Volume 1 |date=1988 |publisher=Balocī Ikaiḍamī |pages=241–251 |language=urdu}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmadzai Baloch |first1=Mir Naseer Khan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8351AAAAIAAJ |title=Tārīk̲h̲-i Baloc va Balocistān, Volume 4 |date=1988 |publisher=Balocī Ikaiḍamī |pages=13–16 |language=urdu}}</ref> are descendants of the Medes, who came to Balochistan and settled in [[Ancient history|ancient time]].<ref name=":Ahmedzai2" />

[[Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr]] is a surviving Middle Persian text on Sasanian administrative geography and history,<ref>{{Cite web |title=ŠAHRESTĀNĪHĀ Ī ĒRĀNŠAHR |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sahrestaniha-i-eransahr}}</ref> based on the source, Padishkhwārgar (located at the vicinity of [[Sakastan (Sasanian province)|Segistan]]) was a Sasanian province in [[Late antiquity|Late Antiquity]] and People who contributed to building 21 cities in Padishkhwargar were the Kōfyār "mountain dweller" people called Baločān "Balochs".<ref name=":Alimoradi2">{{cite book |last1=Alimoradi |first1=Pooriya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxY4EQAAQBAJ&dq=baloch++++zorostian&pg=PA329 |title="The Wolf Era Ends, and The Sheep Era Starts": Zoroastrian Apocalypticism in The Maʿnī-yi Vahman Yasht |date=2024 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004710580 |page=329 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Mansel Longworth Dames]] in 1902 stated that "a theory of the origin of the Baloch people, the largest ethnic group in the region, is that they are of Median descent."<ref>M. Longworth Dames, Balochi Folklore, ''Folklore'', Vol. 13, No. 3 (29 September 1902), pp. 252–274</ref>

The Baloch were among [[Kay Khosrow]] allies and formed part of his army headed by General [[Ashkash]].<ref name=":ashkash2" /><ref name=":The Baloch race2" /> This is depicted in the mythological part of the [[Shahnameh|Shahnamah]] a prose work written in Middle Persian.<ref name=":Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore2">{{cite book |last=Badalkhan |first=Sabir |title=Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore |publisher=Universita degli studi di Napoli |year=2013 |isbn=978-88-6719-060-7 |series=Balochistan Monograph Series, V |location=Naples, Italy |pages=20,36,96–97,120}}</ref>
{{blockquote|<poem>
"Next after [[Gostaham]] came shrewd Aškash
endowed with prudent heart and ready brain
An army of warriors of the kuch and Baloch
Scheming war like the faighting-ram
No one in the word has seen(them tun) rheir backs
No one has seen(as much as) one of their fingers unarmed”<ref name=":The Baloch and Their Neighbours">{{cite book |last1=Carina،Korn |first1= Jahani،Korn|title=The Baloch and Their Neighbours |pages=49,314–317,248,260|date=2003|publisher= Reichert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3IMAQAAMAAJ&q=Scheming|isbn=9783895003660}}</ref><ref name="Ferdowsi 2006">Ferdowsi (2006). ''Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings''. Translated by Dick Davis. New York: Viking. {{ISBN|0670034851}}.</ref>
</poem>}}
Also in another piece of this pose which is depicted in the same work:
{{blockquote|<poem>
"Also from Pahlav and Pars and Koch o Baloch"
from the warriors of Gilan and Dasht-e Soroch"<ref name=":The Baloch and Their Neighbours" /><ref name=":The Baloch race">{{cite book |last1=Dames |first1= Mansel Longworth|title=The Baloch race. A historical and ethnological sketch |pages=22, 26, 29|date=1904|publisher= London, Royal Asiatic society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kf0RAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref name="Ferdowsi 2006">Ferdowsi (2006). ''Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings''. Translated by Dick Davis. New York: Viking. {{ISBN|0670034851}}.</ref>
</poem>}}
During the [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanid]] era, [[Khosrow I|Anoshervan]] and [[Ardashir I|Ardashir]] fought against the Balochs and After initially sustaining a defeat, succeeded in subjugating the Baloch. The Baloch scattered in the Makran(modern-day Balochistan in Iran and Pakistan) and Kerman regions, areas that formed the southeastern frontier of the Sassanid Empire. Periodic uprisings or refusals to pay tribute might have been part of their interactions with the Sassanid kings.{{sfn|Dashti, The Baloch and Balochistan|2012|pp=50–55}}<ref name=":The Baloch race2" /><ref name=":The Baloch and Their Neighbours2" /><ref name="Spooner2" /><ref name=":Zeb2">{{cite book |last=Rathore |first=Rizwan Zeb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3UgEAAAQBAJ |title=Ethno-political Conflict in Pakistan The Baloch Movement |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2019 |isbn=9781000729924}}</ref>