Azerbaijanis in Uzbekistan ( az, Özbəkistan azərbaycanlıları) are part of the
Azerbaijani diaspora. They are
Uzbek citizens and permanent residents of ethnic Azerbaijani background.
Azerbaijan and
Uzbekistan used to be part of the
Russian Empire and later the
Soviet Union. Currently there are over 35,848
Azerbaijanis
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numer ...
in Uzbekistan, making up 0.15% of Uzbekistan's population.
Notable people
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Movlud Miraliyev
Movlud Miraliyev (born 27 February 1974 in Kitab, Uzbekistan, Kitob, Qashqadaryo Province, Uzbekistan) is an Azerbaijani retired judoka of Meskhetian Turks, Turkish Meskhetian origin.
Miraliyev finished in joint fifth place in the Judo at the 2 ...
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Rafig Huseynov
Rafig Huseynov ( az, Rafiq Hüseynov; born 16 May 1988) is an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler. He defeated Hungarian Péter Bácsi for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wr ...
See also
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Azerbaijan–Uzbekistan relations
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Turkic Council
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Azerbaijani diaspora
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Demographics of Uzbekistan
External links
Soviet Census 1970: UzbekistanSoviet Census 1979: UzbekistanSoviet Census 1989: Uzbekistan
References
{{Portal bar, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan
Ethnic groups in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijani emigrants to Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan–Uzbekistan relations