Iranian Kazakhs

Iranian Kazakhs
Total population
5,000 in the city of Gorgan, approx. 10,000 spread through the rest of the Iran[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Persian
Kazakh
Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Azerbaijanis, Turkmen, Turkic peoples

Iranian Kazakhs live mainly in the Golestān Province in Northern Iran.[2] According to ethnologue.org, however, there were 3000 Kazakhs living in Iran in 1982 in the city of Gorgan.[3][4] The number of Iranian Kazakhs might have been slightly higher, because many of them returned to Kazakhstan after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, from where they had immigrated to Iran after the Bolshevik October Revolution (1917).[5]

Currently, the city of Gorgan contains 5000 ethnic Kazakhs, who speak Kazakh and Persian on varying levels.[1]

  1. ^ a b ""Казахи доказали, что являются неотъемлемой частью иранского общества и могут служить одним из мостов, связующих две страны" - представитель диаспоры Тойжан Бабык". Inform.kz. 20 March 2010. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  2. ^ "گلستان". Anobanini.ir. Archived from the original on 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  3. ^ "Iran". ethnologue.com. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  4. ^ پایگاه اطلاع رسانی استانداری گلستان Archived November 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ قزاق Archived October 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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