TARİHİ – AZERBAYCANLILARIN HATIRLAMAKTAN HOŞLANMADIĞI GERÇEKLER
– TARİHİ SAYFALAR.
From 1880 to 1912, about 650,000 Turkic nomads migrated from Persia to the Russian Empire. Russian sources called them “TATAR OBSTACLES” (TATAR COLONIAL WORKERS).
These migrants were distributed in the provinces of Baku, Elizavetpol, Yerevan and Tbilisi.
Today they have approximately 6 million descendants. This means that out of 10 million people living in modern Azerbaijan, at least 6 million are descendants of Tatar migrant workers who migrated from Iran to the Caucasus in 1880-1912. And they appeared in Iran earlier, through two migration flows.
1) In the 11th-13th centuries,
2) From Central Asia in the 14th-16th centuries.
Here is a quote:
“In 1897, the Azerbaijani population of the Baku and Elizavetopol provinces was approximately 1 million. Moreover, according to incomplete data, since 1880 alone, the number of workers migrating from the northwestern provinces of South Azerbaijan annually amounted to 30,000-35,000. In reality, the number was significantly higher: many migrant workers did not take consular passes or passports, illegally crossing the border.
The Velikij and Ardabil regions alone provided almost 20,000 migrant workers annually, that is, on average, one person from each peasant farm.”
▪️Sources:
1. History of Azerbaijan, 1958, volume 1 – “From Ancient Times to the Joining of Azerbaijan to Russia”, pages 140, 170-172, 202, 204.
2. Ibid., page 337.
3. History of Azerbaijan, volume 2, pages 253, 261, 262.
Kristina Petrosyan
Translated and edited by Albert Mikayelyan
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