Back الكرد في أذربيجان Arabic Azərbaycan kürdləri AZ آذربایجان کوردلری AZB کوردانی ئازەربایجان CKB کردهای جمهوری آذربایجان FA Azerbaidžanin kurdit Finnish Քրդերն Ադրբեջանում HY アゼルバイジャンのクルド人 Japanese ქურთები აზერბაიჯანში KA Kurdên Azerbaycanê KU
 Tunar Rahmanoghly singing Kurdish song "Rinda Min". Khari Bulbul Music Festival | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Official: 6,100[1] Estimate: 70,000[2] | |
| Languages | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji), Azerbaijani | |
| Religion | |
| Shia Islam, Yezidism[3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Iranian peoples |
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The Kurds in Azerbaijan form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space. Kurds established a presence in the Caucasus with the establishment of the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty in the 10th and 11th centuries.[4] Some Kurdish tribes were recorded in Karabakh by the end of the sixteenth century.[4] However, virtually the entire contemporary Kurdish population in the modern Azerbaijan descends from migrants from 19th-century Qajar Iran.[4]
- ^ "Population of Azerbaijan by ethnic groups". azstat.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ "Azerbaijan's Kurds Fear Loss of National Identity". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 1 July 2011.
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sakharovwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c Yilmaz, Harun (2014). "The Rise of Red Kurdistan". Iranian Studies. 47 (5): 801–802. doi:10.1080/00210862.2014.934153. S2CID 163144462.