Sagarthians are one of the better-known clans of the Indo-European-speaking Iranic Aryans who settled in Kurdistan about 2,600 years ago. Today, the Kurdish tribes of Zangana and Chigini can trace their ancestry to these ancient settlers who have also imparted their name to the Zagros mountains. The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. ... // Aryan () is an English language word derived from the Iranian and Sanskrit terms ari-, arya-, Ärya-, and/or the extended form aryÄna-. Beyond its use as the ethnic self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians, the meaning noble/spiritual has been attached to it in Persian and Sanskrit. ... Kurdistan (literally meaning the land of Kurds[1]; old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also in Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds. ... The Zagros Mountains (In Persian:رشته‌کوه‌های زاگرس) make up Irans second largest mountain range. ...