Jasz people
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Jászság, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County, Hungary | |
| Languages | |
| Hungarian, Jász (extinct) | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Catholicism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hungarians, Ossetians, Asud, other Eastern Iranian peoples |
The Jász (Latin: Jazones) are an Iranian ethnic group of Eastern Iranic descent who have lived in Hungary since the 13th century. They live mostly in a region known as Jászság, which comprises the north-western part of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county. They are sometimes known in English by the exonym Jassic and are also known by the endonyms Iasi and Jassy. They originated as a nomadic Alanic people from the Pontic steppe.