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Avars (Caucasus)

This article is about the modern North Caucasian Avars. For the medieval ethnic group at the Pannonian Basin of Central and Eastern Europe, see Pannonian Avars. For other uses, see Avar (disambiguation).

Avars
Imam Shamil, an Avar political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1834–1859).
Total population
c. 1.5 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Russia 1,012,000 (2021)[2]
 Azerbaijan150,000[3]
 Ukraine1,496[4]
 Kazakhstan1,206 (2009)[5]
 Georgia6,000[6]
 Turkey50,000 (2005)
Languages
Avar
Religion
Sunni Islam[7]
Related ethnic groups
Other Northeast Caucasian peoples (especially Andi people, Tsez people and Dargins)

The Avars, also known as Maharuls (Avar: магӀарулал,[8][9][10] maⱨarulal, "mountaineers"), are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan.[11] The Avars reside in the North Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Alongside other ethnic groups in the North Caucasus region, the Avars live in ancient villages located approximately 2,000 meters above sea level.[12] The Avar language spoken by the Caucasian Avars belongs to the family of Northeast Caucasian languages. Sunni Islam has been the prevailing religion of the Avars since the 14th century

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  3. ^ "Ethnic composition of Azerbaijan 2009". pop-stat.mashke.org.
  4. ^ State statistics committee of Ukraine – National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике. Перепись 2009. Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (Национальный состав населения Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Ethnic composition of Georgia 2014". Pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
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  8. ^ "АВАРЦЫ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия". bigenc.ru. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
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  10. ^ Малая советская энциклопедия. Sovetskai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedikia︡. 1933. p. 47.
  11. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  12. ^ Pagani, Luca; et al. (9 September 2011). "High altitude adaptation in Daghestani populations from the Caucasus". Human Genetics. 131 (3): 423–33. doi:10.1007/s00439-011-1084-8. PMC 3312735. PMID 21904933.