Azerbaijani people

The Azerbaijanis, or Azerbaijani Turks (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanlılar, Azərbaycan Türkləri) are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan. A small minority also live in southern Dagestan in Russia.

Azerbaijanis
Azərbaycanlılar

Total population
approx. 30 million[1][2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Azerbaijani_diaspora_map.png
Regions with significant populations
Iran	15 to 20 million[3]: 28 [4][5][6][7][8][9]
Russia	621,800 to 1,500,000[10][11]
Turkey	530,000 to 2,500,000[11]
Georgia	284,761 to 500,000[11][12]
Kazakhstan	78,295[13]
Ukraine	45,176[14]
Uzbekistan	44,400[15]
Turkmenistan	33,365[16]
Netherlands	18,000[17]
Kyrgyzstan	17,823[18]
Germany	15,219
United Kingdom	15,000[19]
Belarus	6,362[20]
United States	5,553[21]
Canada	3,465[22]
Latvia	1,697[23]
Austria	1,000[24]
Estonia	880[25]
Lithuania	788[13]
Languages
Azerbaijani
Religion
Mostly Shia Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Turkic peoples (especially Turkmens and Turks)

After the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) and Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), the land of the Iranian Qajar dynasty in the Caucasus were given to the Russian Empire which makes up the present territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Lands which Iran kept are now known as Iranian Azerbaijan. Even though they live on two sides of an international border, the Azerbaijanis are a single ethnic group.^[26] However, northerners and southerners differ due to nearly two centuries of separate social evolution of Iranian Azerbaijanis and Russian/Soviet-influenced Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani language unifies Azerbaijanis, and is mutually intelligible with Turkmen, Qashqai, Gagauz, Turkish, and the dialects spoken by the Iraqi Turkmen, all of which belong to the Oghuz, or Western, group of Turkic languages.^[27]: 105 The Azerbaijanis are mostly Shia Muslim.^[28][26]

Related pages

• Iranian Azerbaijanis

Other websites

• Azerbaijan -Citizendium