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, Russian
Religion
	Shia Islam, 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.^[4] Some Kurdish tribes were recorded in Karabakh by the end of the sixteenth century.^[4] However, virtually the entire contemporary Kurdish population in the modern Azerbaijan descends from migrants from 19th-century Qajar Iran.^[4]

^ "Population of Azerbaijan by ethnic groups". azstat.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
^ "Azerbaijan's Kurds Fear Loss of National Identity". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 1 July 2011.
^ Cite error: The named reference sakharov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c Yilmaz, Harun (2014). "The Rise of Red Kurdistan". Iranian Studies. 47 (5): 801–802. doi:10.1080/00210862.2014.934153. S2CID 163144462.

[azerbaijan-1] "Population of Azerbaijan by ethnic groups". azstat.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

[2] "Azerbaijan's Kurds Fear Loss of National Identity". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 1 July 2011.

[sakharov-3] Cite error: The named reference sakharov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Yilmaz-4] Yilmaz, Harun (2014). "The Rise of Red Kurdistan". Iranian Studies. 47 (5): 801–802. doi:10.1080/00210862.2014.934153. S2CID 163144462.

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Total population
Tunar Rahmanoghly singing Kurdish song "Rinda Min". Khari Bulbul Music Festival
Official: 6,100^[1] Estimate: 70,000^[2]
Languages
Kurdish (Kurmanji), Azerbaijani, Russian
Religion
Shia Islam, Yezidism^[3]
Related ethnic groups
Iranian peoples