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Azerbaijanis comprise the largest minority ethnic group in Iran. Apart from Iranian Azerbaijan (provinces of West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil and Zanjan), Azerbaijani populations are found in large numbers in four other provinces: Hamadan (includes other Turkic ethnic groups such as Afshar, Gharehgozloo, Shahsevan, and Baharloo [27] [28]), [29] Qazvin, [30] Markazi, [31] and Kurdistan.
North Azerbaijani (based on the Shirvan dialect and spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan [33]) and South Azerbaijani (based on the Tabriz dialect and spoken in Iranian Azerbaijan [34]) Both sublanguages are Oghuz languages (a sub-branch of the Turkic languages) and are mutually intelligible with other Oghuz dialects spoken in Turkey, Iran ...
Iranian Azerbaijanis, a Turkic-speaking people, are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity who may speak the Azerbaijani language as their first language. They are mainly settled in and are native to the Iranian Azerbaijan region, including provinces of East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, and West Azerbaijan, and in smaller numbers, Kurdistan, Qazvin, Hamadan, Gilan, Markazi, and Kermanshah.
Scholars see cultural similarities between modern Persians and Azerbaijanis as evidence of an ancient Iranian influence. [33] Azerbaijani's celebrate a number of Iranian holidays, most notably Norouz. Researchers also describe the lives of Azerbaijani villagers and Persian villagers to be very similar in terms of tradition and culture.
Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (Persian/Azerbaijani: آذربایجان, romanized: Āzarbāyjān, Persian pronunciation: [ɒːzæɾbɒːjˈdʒɒːn], Azerbaijani pronunciation: [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn]), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, [1] is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani exclave of the Nakhchivan ...
This wave of Azerbaijani immigrants settled mainly in New York City and its metropolitan area, which hosts the largest population of Azerbaijani-Americans, in Northern New Jersey and Massachusetts; and later in Florida, Texas, and California, especially in Los Angeles area where there is a large Iranian community, many of whom are Iranian ...
Persian culture dominated the area that would become modern-day Azerbaijan for the majority of its history, up until the 1820s. The region never formed a distinct, unified state before the Russians finished conquering it in 1828, and even when Iran ruled the area, the eastern part of the South Caucasus was composed of numerous feudal khanates .
Azerbaijani culture may refer to: Regions. Culture of Azerbaijan; Ethnic groups. Azerbaijanis#Culture. Iranian Azerbaijanis#Culture; Azerbaijanis in Georgia#Culture