Azerbaijani people

Azerbaijanis
Azərbaycanlılar
Azerbaijani Turks
Total population
approx. 30 million https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Azerbaijani_diaspora_map.png
Regions with significant populations
 Iran15 to 20 million: 28 
 Russia621,800 to 1,500,000
 Turkey530,000 to 2,500,000
 Georgia284,761 to 500,000
 Kazakhstan78,295
 Ukraine45,176
 Uzbekistan44,400
 Turkmenistan33,365
 Netherlands18,000
 Kyrgyzstan17,823
 Germany15,219
 United Kingdom15,000
 Belarus6,362
 United States5,553
 Canada3,465
 Latvia1,697
 Austria1,000
 Estonia880
 Lithuania788
Languages
Azerbaijani
Religion
Primarily Shia Islam (Twelver)
Related ethnic groups
Other Turkic peoples (especially Turkmens and Turks)

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.

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. 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.: 105  The Azerbaijanis are mostly Shia Muslim.

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