Zoroaster

Zarathushtra, usually known in English as Zoroaster after the Greek version of the name, was an Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of Persia from the time of the Achaemenidae to the close of the Sassanid period. Zoroaster was born in Balkh (Modern day Afghanistan). In Modern Persian

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Zoroastrianism

One of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions. It once was the official religion of Sassanid Persia and played an important role in Achaemenid times. According to internal and external histories, a prophet named Zártosht (Zoroaster) lived in Iran / Persia no earlier than 1700 BC and no later than 600 BC. He came to