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Azerbaijani American

Regions with significant populations
State of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Florida,Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan, Virginia, State of Washington, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee etc
Languages
Azerbaijani, Russian, American English
Religion
Predominately Muslim

Azerbaijani Americans are Americans of ethnic Azerbaijani origin, who mostly come from the Republic of Azerbaijan, Iranian Azerbaijan and Turkey. According to the 2000 US census, an estimated 5,553 Azerbaijanis have identified themselves as Azerbaijanis living the United States.

The earliest Azerbaijani immigrants to the United States were German prisoners of war during World War II who left the western zones of Germany for the United States in the early 1950s. There is also a small number of surviving refugees who fled their homeland in 1920 after the demise of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The post-1920 refugees first settled in Turkey and Iran, then came to the United States for economic reasons in 1950s and 1960s.

Both groups settled in New York City (the largest number of Azerbaijanis in the US), Northern New Jersey, and Massachusetts; and more recently in Florida, Texas and California (esp. the Los Angeles area). The ex-prisoners of war later worked in blue collar jobs, whereas Azeri immigrants from Turkey and Iran were able to hold on to their original occupations as merchants, artisans and clerks. By 1980 there were around 200 Azeri families in the United States, with about 80% of them being endogamic.

See also

• Iranian American
• Turkish American
• Russian American

References

1. ^ First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000. This number includes both primary and secondary ancestry. (Retrieved 2009-01-23.).
2. ^ Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, et al. Harvard University Press: 1980. p. 171. ISBN 0674375122

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