Shaqaqi (tribe)
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Shaqaqi (Kurdish: شەقاقی ,Şeqaqî, Persian: شقاقی)[1][2] is a Kurdish tribe in Iran.[3] Its branches nowadays live in East Azerbaijan, Razavi Khorasan and North Khorasan provinces of Iran. They mainly speak Azerbaijani language and are Shiite Muslims.[3][4]
History
[edit]The Shaqaqi tribe has been described as brave warriors and they trained officers of soldiers of the Qajar dynasty since the reign of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "هۆکارەکانی پەرەسەندنی تەشەیوع لە ناو کورددا چییە؟". Diplomatic Magazine (in Kurdish). 14 March 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
- ^ "شجره نامه صفوی مربوط به ایل شقاقی". Asnad.org (in Persian).
- ^ a b SHAHSEVAN from Encyclopædia Iranica
- ^ "تذكره كعبه عرفان عرفات". Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization Documentation Center (in Persian). Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ Kalīm Allāh Tavaḥḥudī, Awghāzī (1981). حرکت تاريخي کرد به خراسان در دفاع از استقلال ايران (in Persian). p. 488.
External links
[edit]- Minorsky, V. (1997). "S̲h̲aḳāḳī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IX: San–Sze. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10422-8.
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