The dehkan
The dehkans are the designation of the Central Asian peasants. Initially in the Sasanid empire, the dehkans were the well-to-do peasants who had evicted from the community and were leading an independent economy, which later became part of the feudal lords, sometimes rural sergeants. In the 7th-12th centuries, dehkans - landowners, feudal lords from the ancient Iranian nobility, who owned land as a mule; sometimes dehkans called peasants - owners of the land. As between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries the local landowners in Iran and Central Asia gave way to the Turkic and Mongolian war lancers, the meaning of the "dehkans" as a feudal lord gradually disappeared.