Qarapapaqs
| Qarapapaqlar, Tərəkəmələr | |
|---|---|
 Qarapapaq falconers in Naghadeh, Iran (1913) |
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| Total population | |
| (Unknown (estimated to be in the hundred thousands)) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, | |
| Languages | |
| Azerbaijani | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Shia Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Azerbaijanis |
The Qarapapaqs or Karapapaks (Azerbaijani: Qarapapaqlar, Tərəkəmələr; Turkish: Karapapaklar) are a Turkic sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis who mainly live in Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, and in the northeast of Turkey near the border with Georgia and Armenia, primarily in the provinces of Ardahan (around Lake Çıldır), Kars and Iğdır. The exact number for the Qarapapaq population worldwide is unknown but is likely to be in the hundred thousands.
Sometimes referred to as Terekeme or Tarakama (from Arabic: "تراكمة" (Tarākameh), the Arabic broken plural for Turkmen—a term traditionally used for any Turkic nomadic people, Qarapapaqs are often identified as a sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis, even though in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary they are sometimes listed as a separate ethnic group. Theories of Qarapapaqs descending from Kumyks (a Turkic ethnic group in Dagestan) have also been brought forward by scholars like Fahrettin Kırzıoğlu and Zeki Velidi Togan. The Terekeme originally populated territories in what is now southern Georgia, northwestern Armenia, southern Dagestan, and central and northwestern Azerbaijan, but almost entirely migrated to Persia and the Ottoman Empire upon Russia's conquest of Persia's territories in the North Caucasus and South Caucasus between 1813 and 1828 during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) and the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828). Here they were given the name Karapapakh ("black hat") by the Anatolians reflecting the element of the Terekeme ethnic outfit that distinguished them from the local population.
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