Kurds in Azerbaijan

Kurds in Azerbaijan
Tunar Rahmanoghly singing Kurdish song "Rinda Min". Khari Bulbul Music Festival
Total population
Official: 6,100
Estimate: 70,000
Languages
Kurdish (Kurmanji), Azerbaijani
Religion
Majority Shia Islam, Minority Yezidism
Related ethnic groups
Iranian peoples

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, Some Kurdish tribes were recorded in Karabakh by the end of the sixteenth century. However, virtually the entire contemporary Kurdish population in the modern Azerbaijan descends from migrants from 19th-century Qajar Iran.

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