The Bashkardi people are an Iranian ethnic group that speak the Bashkardi language in southeastern Iran. The Bashkardi people practice Islam and have an approximate population from 8,700 to 35,000. [1] [2]
The Bashkardi people primarily live in villages in the mountains near Bashagard County in Hormozgan Province. [2] Ilya Gershevitch, expert on Iran, published "Travels in Bashkardia" in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society in 1959. [3]
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