This article is about Iranian Azerbaijanis. For Azerbaijanis in general, see Azerbaijani people.
Iranian Azerbaijanis
ایران آذربایجانلیلاری
Iranian Azerbaijani folk singers from Tabriz celebrating Nowruz
Regions with significant populations
East Azerbaijan
West Azerbaijan
Ardabil
Zanjan
Qazvin
Hamadan
Internal migration: Tehran
Alborz
Qom
Minority: Markazi
Gilan
Kurdistan
Kermanshah
Golestan
Iran
12-23 million[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] 6–6.5 million (Arakelova)[8] 16[9][10]–24%[11][12] of Iran's population
Azerbaijan
248,000[13]
Canada
50,000 – 60,000[14]
Languages
Azerbaijani and Persian
Religion
predominantly Shi'a Islam
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Iranian Azerbaijanis (Persian: آذربایجانیهای ایران; Azerbaijani: ایران آذربایجانلیلاری[iˈɾɑːnɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑnlɯlɑɾɯ])[a] are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. They are mainly of Iranian descent.[8][20] They are primarily found in and are native to the Iranian Azerbaijan region including provinces of (East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, West Azerbaijan)[21][22][23] and in smaller numbers, in other provinces such as Kurdistan, Qazvin, Hamadan, Gilan, Markazi and Kermanshah.[24] Iranian Azerbaijanis also constitute a significant minority in Tehran, Karaj and other regions.[25][26][27]
^Swietochowski, Tadeusz; Collins, Brian C. (1999). Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan. Scarecrow Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-8108-3550-4.: Today, Iranian Azerbaijan has a solid majority of Azeris with an estimated population of at least 15 million (over twice the population of the Azerbaijani Republic). (1999)
^"Iran". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2018. Ethnic population: 15,900,000
^Elling, Rasmus Christian. Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Excerpt: "The number of Azeris in Iran is heavily disputed. In 2005, Amanolahi estimated all Turkic-speaking communities in Iran to number no more than 9 million. CIA and Library of congress estimates range from 16 to 24 percent—that is, 12–18 million people if we employ the latest total figure for Iran's population (77.8 million). Azeri ethnicsts, on the other hand, argue that overall number is much higher, even as much as 50 percent or more of the total population. Such inflated estimates may have influenced some Western scholars who suggest that up to 30 percent (that is, some 23 million today) Iranians are Azeris." [1] Archived 5 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
^Potter, Lawrence G. (2014). Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf. Oxford University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-19-937726-8. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^Bani-Shoraka, Helena (1 July 2009). "Cross-generational bilingual strategies among Azerbaijanis in Tehran". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2009 (198): 106. doi:10.1515/IJSL.2009.029. ISSN 1613-3668. S2CID 144993160. The latest figures estimate the Azerbaijani population at 24% of Iran's 70 million inhabitants (NVI 2003/2004: 301). This means that there are between 15 and 20 million Azerbaijanis in Iran.
^Moaddel, Mansoor; Karabenick, Stuart A. (4 June 2013). Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East: A Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis. Brill. p. 101. The Azeris have a mixed heritage of Iranic, Caucasian, and Turkic elements(...) Between 16 to 23 million Azeris live in Iran.
^Eschment, Beate; von Löwis, Sabine, eds. (18 August 2022). Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands. Taylor & Francis. p. 31. Irrespective of the large Azerbaijani population in Iran (about 20 million, compared to 7 million in Azerbaijan)(...)
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^Gheissari, Ali (2 April 2009). Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-19-988860-3. As of 2003, the ethnic classifications are estimated as: [...] Azeri (24 percent)
^"Immigrant Languages of Azerbaijan". Ethnologue. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
^Reza Moridi. "Azerbaijani diaspora in Canada". news.az. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02.
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^"Richard Nelson Frye, "Persia", Allen & Unwin, 1968. pp 17:
"in World War II, contact with brethren in Soviet Azerbaijan likewise were not overly cordial since the Persian Azeris are committed to Iranian culture and consider their destiny to be with the Persians rather than with other Turks"
^Tadeusz Swietochowski, "Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community", Cambridge University Press, 2004. pg 192: [2] Archived 2016-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Excerpt "...identity with the Persian Azerbaijanis"
^Frye, R. N. "IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (1) A General Survey". Encyclopædia Iranica. XIII. pp. 321–326.
^"Iran – Turkic-speaking Groups". countrystudies.us. Archived from the original on 2011-08-19.
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^Michael Knüppel, E. "Turkic Languages of Persia". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
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