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Short Description
Asef is an old Persian surname or family name, mainly originated from old Persia or Iran (used as well as in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Poland, and Eastern European) meaning "ministers" and "lords". Because of immigration reasons, approximately 152,777 people with Asef surname live worldwide, with the highest density in Iran, the United States, and Argentina. The origin of Asef family is north-west of old Persia (Iran), where historically Aryan and Caucasian races have lived, more details on race and history can be found in the article.

Race
People with Asef family name due to the geographical evidence, are mainly from the Caucasian race as comprising Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

History
In the 18th century, the most ancient known Indo-European languages were those of the ancient Indo-Iranians. The word Aryan was therefore adopted to refer not only to the Indo-Iranian peoples, but also to native Indo-European speakers as a whole, including the Romans, Greeks, and the Germanic peoples. It was soon recognised that Balts, Celts, and Slavs also belonged to the same group. It was argued that all of these languages originated from a common root – now known as Proto-Indo-European – spoken by an ancient people who were thought of as ancestors of the European, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan peoples. By the late 19th century the steppe theory of Indo-European origins was challenged by a view that the Indo-Europeans originated in ancient Germany or Scandinavia – or at least that in those countries the original Indo-European ethnicity had been preserved. The word Aryan was consequently used even more restrictively – and even less in keeping with its Indo-Iranian origins – to mean "Germanic", "Nordic" or Northern Europeans. This implied division of Caucasoids into Aryans, Semites and Hamites was also based on linguistics, rather than based on physical anthropology; it paralleled an archaic tripartite division in anthropology between "Nordic", "Alpine" and "Mediterranean" races. The German origin of the Aryans was especially promoted by the archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna, who claimed that the Proto-Indo-European peoples were identical to the Corded Ware culture of Neolithic Germany. This idea was widely circulated in both intellectual and popular culture by the early twentieth century, and is reflected in the concept of "Corded-Nordics" in Carleton S. Coon's 1939 The Races of Europe.. This usage was common among knowledgeable authors writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An example of this usage appears in The Outline of History, a bestselling 1920 work by H. G. Wells. In that influential volume, Wells used the term in the plural ("the Aryan peoples"), but he was a staunch opponent of the racist and politically motivated exploitation of the singular term ("the Aryan people") by earlier authors like Houston Stewart Chamberlain and was careful either to avoid the generic singular, though he did refer now and again in the singular to some specific "Aryan people" (e.g., the Scythians). In 1922, in A Short History of the World, Wells depicted a highly diverse group of various "Aryan peoples" learning "methods of civilization" and then, by means of different uncoordinated movements that Wells believed were part of a larger dialectical rhythm of conflict between settled civilizations and nomadic invaders that also encompassed Aegean and Mongol peoples inter alia, "subjugat[ing]" – "in form" but not in "ideas and methods" – "the whole ancient world, Semitic, Aegean and Egyptian alike".

People with Asef Surname

 * Isabell Asef
 * Faramarz Asef
 * Bella Asef
 * Rosina Dorothea Asef
 * Pedram Asef
 * Jose Asef
 * Rose Asef
 * Khashayar Asaf
 * Ahmad Asef
 * Mahmoud Asef
 * Payman Asef
 * Jorge Asef
 * Adela Asef
 * Foda Asef
 * Coca Asef
 * Elias Asef
 * Jorge Asef
 * Jorge Alberto Asef
 * Andrea Asef
 * Mario Asef
 * Abdullah Asef
 * Charles Asef
 * Armita Asaf
 * Michael Asef
 * Peters Asef
 * Reters Aseff
 * Philipp Asef
 * Jacinto Asef
 * Miguel Asef
 * Carola Asef
 * Miguel Asef
 * Autti Asef
 * George Asef
 * Gholamreza Asef
 * Batool Asef
 * Waldemar Asef
 * Raquel Asef
 * Mote Asef
 * Meyer Asef
 * George Asef
 * Heinrich Asef
 * Giorgio Asef
 * Gabriel Asef
 * Nota Asef
 * Juan Carlos Asef
 * Rene Khair de Asef
 * Feige Asef
 * Carola Asef
 * Yette Rive Asef
 * Mercherd Asef
 * Nathan Asef

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