Qajar (tribe)

This article is about a Oghuz tribe. For other uses, see Qajar (disambiguation).
Qajar
Total population
over 35,000[1] (1994)
Regions with significant populations
 Iran
Languages
Persian
Azerbaijani[2]
Religion
Islam[3]
Related ethnic groups
Oghuz Turks
Qajars
Mohammad Khan Qajar, founder and the first king of the Qajar dynasty of Iran
Ahmad Shah Qajar, final shah (King) of the Qajar dynasty

The Qajars (Persian: ایل قاجار, romanized: Ile Ǧâjâr; Azerbaijani: قاجارلار, romanized: Qacarlar)[a] are a clan of the Bayat tribe of the Oghuz Turks who lived variously, with other tribes, in the area that is now Armenia, Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran.

By the end of the Safavid era, they had split into several factions.[4] These included the Ziyādoghlu (Ziādlu), associated with the area of Ganja and Yerevan, as well as the Qoyunlu (Qāvānlu), and Davālu (Devehlu) the latter two associated with the northern areas of contemporary Iran.[4]

  1. ^ Olson, James Stuart; Pappas, Lee Brigance; Pappas, Nicholas Charles (1994). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-313-27497-8.
  2. ^ "Azerbaijani, South". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  3. ^ "КАДЖАРЫ". Большой энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  4. ^ a b Atkin 1980, p. 9.


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