Azerbaijani diaspora
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The Azerbaijani diaspora are the communities of Azerbaijanis living outside of places of their ethnic origin: Azerbaijan Republic and Iranian Azerbaijan. The term Azerbaijani diaspora refers to the global community of ethnic Azeris.
According to Ethnologue, there were over 1 million Azerbaijani-speakers of the north dialect in southern Dagestan, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as of 1993.[1] Other sources, such as national censuses, confirm the presence of Azeris throughout the former Soviet Union. The Ethnologue figures are outdated in the case of Armenia, where the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has affected the population of Azeris.[2] Ethnologue further reports that an additional 1 million Iranian Azeris live outside Iran, but these figures most likely are a reference to the Iraqi Turkmen, a distinct though related Turkic people.[3]
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History of the Azerbaijani diaspora
The main migration of Azerbaijani people occurred at the same time of Turkic migration between the 6th and 11th centuries (the Early Middle Ages), when they spread across most of Central Asia and into Europe and the Middle East. In the following centuries the local population began to be assimilated from the emerging Azerbaijani migrants.
Organizations
The State Committee of Azerbaijan Republic on Work with Diaspora was established to handle the communication with the diaspora and to drive the creation of new societies and organizations. In 2004 the committee effected the creation of about 40 new Azeri communities worldwide.[4]
Current number of Azerbaijanis in select countries
| Rank | Country | Capital | Centres of Azerbaijani population | № of Azeris | Further info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Russia |
Moscow | Moscow, Derbent, Khanty–Mansi, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-the-Don and Saratov | 621,000 (2002) [5] | Azeris in Russia |
| 3 |  Turkey |
Ankara | Istanbul, Iğdır and Kars | 800,000 (2006)[6] | Azeris in Turkey |
| 4 |  Georgia |
Tbilisi | Tbilisi, Marneuli, Gardabani, Bolnisi, Dmanisi and Sagarejo. | 284,761 (2006)[7] | Azeris in Georgia (country) |
| 5 |  Kazakhstan |
Astana | 78,300 (2009)[8] | ||
| 6 |  Germany |
Berlin | 55, 000 | ||
| 7 |  Ukraine |
Kiev | 45,200 (2006)[9] | Azeris in Ukraine | |
| 8 |  Netherlands |
Amsterdam | 18,000 (2009)[10] | ||
| 9 |  Kyrgyzstan |
Bishkek | 17,267(2009)[11] | ||
| 10 |  United Kingdom |
London | London | 15,000 (2009)[12] | |
| 11 |  United States |
Washington D.C | Houston, Los Angeles, New York | 14,205[13](census 2000) - 24,377 and
(non-census estimate) 400,000 |
Azerbaijani American |
| 12 |  Canada |
Ottawa | Toronto | 3,465 (2006)[14] |
See also
References
- ^ Report for Azerbaijani, North, Ethnologue . Retrieved 9 June 2006.
- ^ Peace Talks at Key West between Armenia and Azerbaijan, US State Department, April 3, 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2006.[dead link]
- ^ "Azerbaijani, South: A language of Iran" - Ethnologue report . Retrieved 07 June 2006.
- ^ An excerpt about Azerbaijani diaspora from the official digest "Azerbaijan. Information Digest. 2007", Baku, 2007
- ^ "Azerbaijanis in Russia", 2002 Russian Census . Retrieved 7 June 2006.
- ^ "Turkey: Religions & Peoples", Encyclopedia of the Orient . Retrieved 7 June 2006.
- ^ State Statistics Department of Georgia: 2002 census . Retrieved 16 July 2006. Archived August 31, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ethnic Composition of Kazakhstan (1999 census) . Retrieved 4 March 2009.
- ^ "About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001", Ukraine Census 2001 . Retrieved 7 June 2006.
- ^ Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Bilateral relations with the Netherlands: Diaspora. NB Of these, 7,000 are immigrants from Azerbaijan. Retrieved on 3 June 2009
- ^ Population and Housing Census 2009. Book 2. Part 1. (in tables). Population of Kyrgyzstan. (Перепись населения и жилищного фонда Кыргызской Республики 2009. Книга 2. Часть 1. (в таблицах). Население Кыргызстана), Bishkek: National Committee on Statistics, 2010, http://212.42.101.100:8088/nacstat/sites/default/files/3.1.pdf
- ^ [1]. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
- ^ http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/stp-159/STP-159-Azerbaijan.pdf
- ^ List of Canadians by ethnicity (following 2006 census). NB Canadian census on ancestry may not reflect current ethnic affiliation in Canada. (retrieved 7 June 2006). In the 2006 census, 1,480 people indicated 'Azeri'/'Azerbaijani' as a single response and 1,985 - as part of multiple origins.
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