Thursday, January 17, 2019

Population of Azerbaijan (Lieut.-Colonel W. K. Stuart, [1835] 1854)


Population of Azerbaijan




The population, both male and female, appear to be worse clothed than their neighbours in Armenia. The men are tall and upright; they have black beards, and differ much from the Turks and Kurds in feature. The costume worn by the lower class is a black lambskin cap, and a gown, generally light blue, reaching to the heels, and tightened round the waist by a handkerchief or shawl. The people of Aderbijan are of Turkish origin; and the Turkish language, differing widely from the Constantinople dialect, is universally spoken in the province.


Lieut.-Colonel W. K. Stuart, Journal of a residence in Northern Persia and the adjacent provinces of Turkey. — London: Richard Bentley, 1854. P. 124.

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