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Turks in Azerbaijan, or Turkish Azerbaijanis, (Turkish: Azerbaycan'daki Türkler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who live in the Republic of Azerbaijan.The community is largely made of Ottoman Turkish descendants who have lived in Azerbaijan for centuries, as well as the Turkish Meskhetian community which arrived in large numbers during Soviet rule.
In Azerbaijani language publications, the expression "Azerbaijani nation" referring to those who were known as Tatars of the Caucasus first appeared in the newspaper Kashkul in 1880. [72] During the early Soviet period, the term "Transcaucasian Tatars" was supplanted by "Azerbaijani Turks" and ultimately "Azerbaijanis."
Only in the 11th century, when Oghuz Turkic tribes under the Seljuk dynasty entered the country, did Azerbaijan acquire a significant number of Turkic inhabitants. The original Persian population became fused with the Turks, and gradually the Persian language was supplanted by a Turkic dialect that evolved into the distinct Azerbaijani language ...
In 1866, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army in Dagestan, A. V. Komarov, wrote that Azerbaijani Turks were composed of Turkic tribes and spoke the Turki-Azerbaijani language. According to Komarov's report, Azerbaijani Turks at that time lived in 29 localities in Dagestan, with a total population of 18,250.
As Azerbaijani gradually moved from being merely a language of epic and lyric poetry to being also a language of journalism and scientific research, its literary version has become more or less unified and simplified with the loss of many archaic Turkic elements, stilted Iranisms and Ottomanisms, and other words, expressions, and rules that ...
According to 2019 research, English language proficiency in Azerbaijan was the lowest among the European countries surveyed. [9] An entire issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, edited by Jala Garibova, was devoted to the matter of languages and language choices in Azerbaijan, vol. 198 in 2009. [10]
While the legal use of the term Turkish as it pertains to a citizen of Turkey is different from the term's ethnic definition, [106] [107] the majority of the Turkish population (an estimated 70 to 75 percent) are of Turkish ethnicity. [108] [109] The vast majority of Turks are Sunni Muslims, with a notable minority practicing Alevism. [82]
According to the 1894 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, there were 124,693 Tats in the Caucasus, [21] however, due to the gradual spread of the Azerbaijani language, Tati was falling out of use. During the Soviet period, after the official term Azerbaijani had been introduced in the late 1930s, the ethnic self-consciousness of Tats changed ...