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| '''Shirvanis''' were the inhabitants of ]. Shirvan's population consisted of Caucasian speaking peoples such as Lezgi, Avars, Udis, Kriz, and ] ]. This population was slowly Turkified since the 11th century onward, yet some speakers of the Caucasian and Iranian languages still live in the distant villages of ], ], ], and ]. | |||
| The bulf of the population consisted of Turkic speakers with an admixture of Arabs and Persians.<ref>The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1833. “Georgia”.</ref> | |||
| According to ''The Earth and its Inhabitants'', published in 1891: | |||
| {{cquote|In their habits those of the lower Kura, Shirvan, and Baku approach nearer to the Persians than to the Turks. They seldom practice polygamy, and their women generally work freely with unveiled faces. On the whole they are remarkably tolerant, nor does the Shiah sect take advantage of its decide to ascendancy to persecute either the Sunnite Mohammedans or their Christian neighbors.<ref>''The Earth and its Inhabitants'' by Elisee Reclus, Vol I Asiatic Russia, published in 1891, page 119</ref>}} | |||
| At the same time, according to ''An Illustrated Description of the Russian Empire'' published in 1855, the population of Shirvan was mostly made up of Persians: | |||
| {{Cquote|Shirvan was formerly a province of Persia…The inhabitants of this province are chiefly Mohammedan Persians.<ref>''An Illustrated Descriptoin of the Russian Empire'' by Robert Sears, published in 1855, pages 289-290</ref>}} | |||
| However, in Russian empire Shia Muslims in general were referred to as Persians. Russian ], published in 1890-1907, stated that the most numerous people in ] were “Azerbaijani Tatars, who are absolutely incorrectly called Persians. They are similar to Persians in many ways, but their language is Turko-Tatar”. <ref name="Brockhaus">{{ru icon}} St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890-1907</ref> | |||
| To distinguish Turkic speakers of Iranian descent from other Turkic peoples, the Russians introduced the term ''Azerbaijani'' in the later half the 19th century. Russian ], published in 1890, states<ref>{{ru icon}} St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890-1907</ref>: | |||
| {{cquote|''some scholars (Yadrintsev, Kharuzin, Chantre) suggested to change the terminology of some Turko-Tatar people, who somatically don’t have much in common with Turks, for instance, to call Aderbaijani Tatars (Iranians by race) Aderbaijans.''<ref>{{ru icon}} St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890-1907.</ref>}} | |||
| The term Azerbaijani has supplanted Shirvani in modern usage and Shirvanis, along with ], are now referred to as ]. However, the term is still used in the Republic of Azerbiaijan to refer to the people of the Shirvan region and in a historical sense<ref name="T">Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. pg 10, 16</ref> and has also occasionally been used in the 20th and 21st century to refer to the Turkic speakers of the Republic of Azerbaijan.<ref name="T"/> | |||
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