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There are several Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani ethnic groups, each of which has particularities in the economy, culture and everyday life. Some Azerbaijani ethnic groups continued in the last quarter of the 19th century. [1]
Major Azerbaijani ethnic groups:
Kumyks are a Turkic people, indigenous to Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
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 tenth and eleventh centuries. Some Kurdish tribes were recorded in Karabakh by the end of the sixteenth century. However, virtually the entire contemporary Kurdish population in the Republic of Azerbaijan descends from migrants from 19th century Qajar Iran.
Uzundara or Ouzoundara is a lyrical Armenian and Azerbaijani dance traditionally performed by women. Today, the dance is famous throughout the Caucasus region; in particular Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The dance has spread among the Armenians of Karabakh.
The Malkh were an ancient nation, living in the Western/Central North Caucasus. They are usually regarded as the westernmost Nakh people, and their name has a Nakh root. Little is known about them due to a loss of historical writings. Malkhi is one of the Chechen tukkhums.
The Khinalugs are an indigenous people of Azerbaijan and speak the Khinalug language, a Northeast Caucasian language. The Khinalugs are indigenous to the Quba District and have been named after their main village, Khinalug. It is one of the peoples that have traditionally been called Shahdagh.
Alinjagala, Alinja-gala or Alinja tower, earlier, up to the 14th century, the fortress was known as an Armenian fortress Yernjak – is a tower is located to the west of Khanega village, not far from Julfa city of Azerbaijan, on the right coast of the Alinja River (Alinjachay), higher of the monastery, on the top of Alinja Mountain. The tower was one of the strongest defensive buildings of that times.
Fatali Khan of Quba or Fath Ali-Khan of Quba was a khan of the Quba Khanate (1758–1789).
Topal Teymur – is a play, historic drama in five acts written by Huseyn Javid, Azerbaijani poet and playwright, in 1925. Topal Teymur is a 1926 play is about Timur, the Central Asian conqueror. It premiered in 1926 in Baku.
Merílo Právednoye or Just Measure is Old Russian legal collection of the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century, preserved in the copies of the 14th to the 16th centuries. The name was given in the modern literature, it was taken from the first words of this text: "this books is just measure, true weighing...". Just Measure was written in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian.
Rus' letopises or Russkiye Letopisi are the main type of Old Russian historical literature. Composed from 11th to 18th centuries the letopises are one of the leading genres Russian literature and among the most extensive monuments to it.
The history of Shamakhi covers the history of Azerbaijani city Shamakhi from ancient times to the present day.
The Lopukhin family was a noble family of the Russian Empire, forming one of the branches of the Sorokoumova-Glebov family. Eudoxia Lopukhina married Peter the Great. When Pyotr Lopukhin's son died childless, the family's princely title passed to Nikolai Petrovich Demidov-Lopukhin. The present Prince Lopukhin-Demidov is Nikolai Alexander Paul Demidoff born in 1976.
Fedor Maksimovich Putintsev was a Soviet propagandist of atheism and a scientific worker in the study of problems of religion and atheism. He was also a journalist and writer.
The Rutul Federation or The Rutul Free Society is a Rutul state located in Southern Dagestan and was formed in the 7th century.
Anatoly Vasilievich Belov — Soviet religion scholar and propagandist of atheism. He was a First Deputy Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, an expert on Adventism and one of the authors of the Atheistic Dictionary and Atheist Handbook.
Maria Sidorovna Butinova, née Dolgonosova, is a Soviet and Russian ethnographer, historian, religious scholar, specialist in the field of religion of Oceania, and Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov is a Soviet philosopher, historian, religious scholar, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Doktor Nauk in Philosophical Sciences, professor.
Vladimir Kapitonovich Nikolsky was a Soviet historian, ethnologist, translator, religious scholar, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1943), and professor.
Derevenskiy Bezbozhnik was an illustrated magazine, an organ of the Centre Soviet and Moscow Oblast Soviet of the League of the Militant Godless.
Armenian-Azerbaijani cultural relations are relations between two ethnic groups in terms of their language and culture.
|url= value (help) (in Russian). Большая советская энциклопедия. — М.: Советская энциклопедия. 1969—1978.KAJAR. The Kajars are considered a subgroup of the Azerbaijanis*. Historically, they have been a Turkic* Tribe who lived in Armenia. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the Safavids tried to conquer the region, the Kajars settled in the Karabakh Khanate of western Azerbaijan. Agha Mohammed, a Kajar leader, overturned the Zend dynasty in Iran and established Kajar control in the area. This arrangement lasted u^il Reza Shah came to power in Iran in 1925. The Kajar population today exceeds 35,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iran.
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