Karapapakhs
Sign in to saveThe Karapapakhs (; ), or Terekeme (; ), are a Turkic people, who originally spoke the Karapapakh language, a western Oghuz language closely related to Azerbaijani and Turkish. Nowadays, the Karapapakh language has been largely supplanted by Azerbaijani and Turkish.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Qarapapaqlar, Karapapaklar
- Ethnic group.group
- Karapapakhs
- Ethnic group.image
- 180pxGroup of Karapapakh Hamidiyeh Cavalry, Ottoman Empire, 1901
- Ethnic group.rels
- Sunni Islam (Hanafi), Shia Islam (Ja'fari), Alevism and Ali-Illahism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Originally Karapapakh, nowadays mostly Azerbaijani, Turkish, Persian and Russian
- Ethnic group.related c
- Other Turkic peoplesEspecially Azerbaijanis and Turks
- Language.name
- Karapapakh
- Language.familycolor
- altaic
- Language.fam1
- Turkic
- Language.fam2
- Common Turkic
- Language.fam3
- Oghuz
- Language.fam4
- Western Oghuz
- Language.extinct
- 20th century
- Language.ethnicity
- Karapapakhs
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.states
- Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan
- Language.region
- South Caucasus
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- History
- Language
- Traditional economy
- See also
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The Karapapakhs (; ), or Terekeme (; ), are a Turkic people, who originally spoke the Karapapakh language, a western Oghuz language closely related to Azerbaijani and Turkish. Nowadays, the Karapapakh language has been largely supplanted by Azerbaijani and Turkish.
After moving into Western Asia in the Middle Ages together with other Turkic speakers and Mongol nomads, the Karapapakhs settled along the Debed river in eastern Georgia (along the present-day Georgian-Armenian border). They moved to Qajar Iran, and the Ottoman Empire after the Treaty of Turkmenchay was concluded between Iran and Russia in 1828. The Karapapakhs who remained within the Russian Empire were counted as a separate group in Tsarist population figures. During the Soviet Union's existence, the Karapapakhs were culturally and linguistically assimilated by the Azerbaijanis, and they were counted as "Azerbaijanis" in the 1959 and 1970 Soviet censuses. In 1944, the Karapapakh in the Soviet Union were deported en masse to Soviet Central Asia.