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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."
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.
The Turkish speakers of Azerbaijan (q.v.) are mainly descended from the earlier Iranian speakers, several pockets of whom still exist in the region. A massive migration of Oghuz Turks in the 11th and 12th centuries gradually Turkified Azerbaijan as well as Anatolia. The Azeri Turks are Shiʿites and were founders of the Safavid dynasty.
The migration and settlement of Eurasian and Central Asian nomads has been a regional pattern in the history of the Caucasus from the Sassanid-Persian era to the 20th-century emergence of the Azerbaijani Turks. Among the Iranian nomads were the Scythians, Alans and Cimmerians, and the Khazars and Huns made incursions during the Hunnic and ...
The Karapapakhs (Azerbaijani: Qarapapaqlar; Turkish: Karapapaklar), or Terekeme [1] (Azerbaijani: Tərəkəmələr; Turkish: Terekemeler), are a Turkic people and an ethnographic subgroup of Azerbaijanis.
The ancestors of Azerbaijani Turks experienced migrations and civilizational disruptions during the 13th–14th centuries. The ethnic foundation of Azerbaijani Turks in Dagestan was further consolidated in the 15th–18th centuries through repeated migrations from Azerbaijan, primarily from Quba and Shirvan.
The name Aq Qoyunlu, literally meaning "those with white sheep", [23] is first mentioned in late 14th century sources. It has been suggested that this name refers to old totemic symbols, but according to Rashid al-Din Hamadani, the Turks were forbidden to eat the flesh of their totem-animals, and so this is unlikely given the importance of mutton in the diet of pastoral nomads.
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]