Turks
There still remains the Turco-Tartar race, which does
not number less than 1,330,000 individuals, dwelling principally by the Koura
and the Arax. Some Tartar nomad tribes wander also in the Moghan steppes;
others are in Daghestan, upon the shores of the Caspian, and in the valleys of
Elburz. They speak the Turkish dialect of Azerbeidjan, and are mostly
work-people, poor, sober, and forbearing. Sunnis and Shias live together with a
good understanding, the reverse of that which obtains in Persia.
Colonel Augustus le Messurier, From London to Bokhara and a Ride Through
Persia. — London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. Pp. 68―69.
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