Saka is also the name of a town in Hiroshima, Japan; for information on this town, see Saka, Hiroshima.
The Sakas or Saka race was a group of Iranian people who lived in present day Uzbekistan around 3000 BC. These Sakas followed other Aryans into present day Iran, and returned back to their original area in Central Asia.
According to some, then, this Saka race with an affiliated tribe under a different name emigrated to northern Europe, into the area of the Baltic Sea (Sakas are considered to be the ancestors of Scythians by many scholars). This Saka race and especially their affiliated tribe whose name is more correlated to the word Saxon, gave rise (supposedly) to the Saxons tribe in the area of present day Germany. This claim was cited in favour of Nazi claims that they were the "original descendants of the Aryan race". Most contemporary philologists are divided on this issue, debating on the archaeological evidences for major cultural contacts between anyone in Uzbekistan or Iran and the Baltic area. But many Germans believe that there was a connection between the people in the central Asia region and their German ancestors, who were migrants from the East; this is in contrast to the French ethnologist Monsieur H. Hubert's belief that suggested that the blond-haired people came from the Atlas mountains of Morrocco, and this blond people migrated out of Morrocco, moving northward along the Atlantic sea shore all the way to the Baltic lake during the European Ice Age, surviving all the way by living on seafood along the Euro-Atlantic coast line, which is known to have large historic deposits of sea shells in man-made open-air depots. On the other hand, Paul Perzon ardently supports the previous theory, claiming that Sakas are the ancestors of Scythians, Cimmerians/Gomers and ultimately Celts (claiming that Celts and Germans were originally the same nations and Germans fled the Baltic area when it was flooded by the rising sea level after the Ice age, since the German tribe Cimbri are thought to be descended from a branch of the Cimmerians). The Sakas were also one of several tribes that conquered India from the northwest. The Indian National Calendar starts from the first year of the Saka Era, 78 CE.
Genetics:About 50% of Slavs and Balts,and about 30% of Central Europeans share the same Y chromosome (R1a) with 50% of the people of the Indus Valley. [1] (http://www.livius.org/sao-sd/scythians/scythians.html),[2] (http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2003b.pdf),[3] (http://www.oxfordancestors.com/papers/mtDNA03%20GeneticHeritage.pdf)
According to some, then, this Saka race with an affiliated tribe under a different name emigrated to northern Europe, into the area of the Baltic Sea (Sakas are considered to be the ancestors of Scythians by many scholars).
This Saka race and especially their affiliated tribe whose name is more correlated to the word Saxon, gave rise (supposedly) to the Saxonstribe in the area of present day Germany.
The Sakas were also one of several tribes that conquered India from the northwest.
Mainstream historians and linguists consider Sakas as speakers of northern sub-branch of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European languages.
The Saka Era is used by the Indian national calendar, a few other Hindu calendars, and the Cambodian Buddhist calendar—its year zero begins near the vernal equinox of 78.
Paul Pezon supports this theory, claiming that the SakaScythians and the seemingly related Cimmerians were ultimately ancestors to the Celts and Germans, and that the Germans fled the Baltic area when it was flooded by the rising sea level after the Ice age.
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