The population of Qazvin
The
population of Qazwin at the present day is mainly Turki-speaking, large
influxes of Turkish tribes into the district having place in Mongol times (see
further below). In the Zahra district the people speak Tati (Djalal Al-Ahmad, Tatnishinha-yi- buluk-i Zahra, Tehran
1959). Various tribes, many of which were semi-nomadic until recent times, are
to be found in the different districts. Among them are the Inanlu and Baghdadi
Shahsivan, who apparently came to Kharaqan and Sava towards the end of the 18th
century and were settled by Aqa Muhammad Khan Qadjar in their present location.
The winter quarters of the Inanlu were between Sawdj Bulagh, Zarand, and Zahra,
and their summer quarters in the neighbourhood of Tehran and in the district
between Qumm, Sultanabad (Arak), Sava and Tehran, and summered in Kharaqan and
Khaladjistan (Hamadan) up to the frontiers of Khamsa. Other tribes in the
Qazwin district include the Lak, Chigini, Ghiyathvand, Qakavand, Djalilvand,
Rashvand, Mafi Bahtu’i, Chumushgazak, and Kalhur. In about 1932 Riza Shah
forbade migration, but it was resumed after his abdication (Gulriz, 853 ff.,
Parviz Vardjavand, Sarzamin-i Qazvin,
Tehran 1970, 460 ff.). Some of the Shahsivan are now settled in Ramand, Zahra,
Kharaqan and Afshariyya, where they are engaged in stockraising and agriculture
(Sarzamin-i Qazvin, 463).
A. K. S. Lambton, Ḳazwin. Encyclopaedia of Islam2,
Volume IV (Iran-Kha) (1997)
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