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==Immigration into Azerbaijan== | ==Immigration into Azerbaijan== | ||
*The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic '''Muslim-majority state''', taking its name from the adjacent region of northwestern Iran for political reasons. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the '''Soviet Union''' as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991. | |||
*The ethnic composition of the population according to the 2009 population census: 91.6% Azerbaijanis, 2.0% Lezgins, 1.4% '''Armenians (almost all Armenians live in the break-away region of Nagorno-Karabakh)''', 1.3% '''Russians''', 1.3% Talysh, 0.6% Avars, 0.4% '''Turks''', 0.3% Tatars, 0.3% Tats, 0.2% '''Ukrainians''', 0.1% Tsakhurs, 0.1% '''Georgians''', 0.1% Jews, 0.1% Kurds, other 0.2%.<ref>"Azerbaijan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan#Ethnic_groups, accessed 31 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Azerbaijan== | ==Emigration From Azerbaijan== | ||
*The Azerbaijani diaspora are the communities of Azerbaijanis living outside the places of their ethnic origin: '''Azerbaijan and the Iranian region of Azerbaijan.''' | *The Azerbaijani diaspora are the communities of Azerbaijanis living outside the places of their ethnic origin: '''Azerbaijan and the Iranian region of Azerbaijan.''' | ||