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- ↑ Mahammadhasan Valili-Baharlu― «"Azerbaijan" (Etnographic ocherk)» Bakı. 1993. Padars.
- ↑ The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia
- ↑ Olearius, page 299
- ↑ Documentary about Padar tribe (Azerbaijani language)
- ↑ Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn,Mohammedanische Quellen zur Geschichte der südlichen Küstenländer des Kaspischen Meers (St. Petersburg 1850-58, 4 Tle.)
- ↑ Aziza Jafarzadeh, "Abdulla Padarlu", 1979