Hazara people
The Hazāra (Dari: هزاره) are Indigenous of Afghanistan people group who mainly live in central Afghanistan and in southwestern Pakistan.[10] They are mostly Muslims with a Shia majority. Hazaras are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan,[11][12][13] forming about 18%–30% of the total population.[14][8] Hazaras are also one of the biggest ethnic groups in Pakistan, native to the region of Northern Balochistan. Some Hazaras also live in Iran. Hazaras speak Hazaragi, a dialect of Persian with many Turkic and Mongolic loanwords.
| File:Hazara schoolboys in Afghanistan.jpg Hazara boys in Afghanistan. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 8–13 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| 22x20px Afghanistan | 7,000,000[1] |
| 22x20px Pakistan | 2,000,000 including 500,000 in Quetta[2][3] |
| 22x20px Iran | 500,000[4] |
| 22x20px Europe | 130,000[5] |
| 22x20px Turkey | 26,000[6] |
| 22x20px Australia | 41,766[7] |
| 22x20px Canada | 10,300[8] |
 Indonesia | 3,800[9] |
| Languages | |
| Dari and Hazaragi (eastern varieties of Persian) | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Shia Islam | |
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Hazara People Media
- Hazara horseman fighting against the troops of Babur in February 1507 on the road from Herat to Kabul (2).jpg
A Hazara horseman engages in battle against Babur's troops along the Herat-Kabul Road in February 1507
- Hazara tribesmen.jpg
A painting of armed Hazara tribesmen in 1892
- Abdul Khaliq.jpg
Abdul Khaliq, a school student, assassinated King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan
- ابراهیم گاوسوار.jpg
Ibrahim Khan, known as "Ibrahim Gawsawar", the leader of an armed Hazara uprising against excessive taxation during Zahir Shah's rule
- Mazari.jpg
Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Hazaras during and following the Soviet–Afghan War
- Hazara women protest terrorist attack on students after Kabul bombing.jpg
Dozens of women from Afghanistan's Hazara community have held a protest following a suicide bombing that took place in an educational center and killed more than 20 young women.
- US Army ethnolinguistic map of Afghanistan -- circa 2001-09.jpg
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan and the geographical area of Hazaristan in 1890.jpg
Afghanistan and the geographical region of Hazaristan in 1890
Related pages
Gallery
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- Rohullah Nikpai speaking in 2012.jpg
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References
- ↑ "Afghanistan |Data". data.worldbank.org.
- ↑ "Hazaras of Pakistan". Retrieved 22 Dec 2022.
- ↑ Census of Afghans in Pakistan 2005, UNHCR Statistical Summary Report (retrieved August 14, 2016)
- ↑ Smyth, Phillip (3 June 2014). "Iran's Afghan Shiite Fighters in Syria". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ↑ "Austria holds refugee talks as young Hazaras flee persecution to make 'dangerous' journey to Europe – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". mobile.abc.net.au. 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
- ↑ "Afghan Hazara Refugees Seek Justice in Turkey". 3 June 2014.
- ↑ "Cultural Diversity". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2021-08-10. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The population of people with descent from Afghanistan in Canada is 48,090. Hazara make up an estimated 30% of the population of Afghanistan depending t on the source. The Hazara population in Canada is estimated from these two figures. Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Afghan Hazaras' new life in Indonesia: Asylum-seeker community in West Java is large enough to easily man an eight-team Afghan football league, Al Jazeera, 21 March 2014, retrieved 5 August 2016
- ↑ Rakha, Allah; Fatima; Peng, Min-Sheng; Adan, Atif; Bi, Rui; Yasmin, Memona; Yao, Yong-Gang (2017-09-01). "mtDNA sequence diversity of Hazara ethnic group from Pakistan". Forensic Science International: Genetics. 30: e1–e5. doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.07.004. ISSN 1872-4973.
- ↑ L. Dupree, "Afghānistān: (iv.) ethnocgraphy", in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2006, (LINK Archived 2006-10-19 at the Wayback Machine).
- ↑ CIA World Factbook Archived 2017-09-20 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "A survey of the Afghan people - Afghanistan in 2006", The Asia Foundation, technical assistance by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS; India) and Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR), Kabul, 2006, PDF Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Kamal Hyder reports (12 Nov 2011). "Hazara community finds safe haven in Peshawar". Aljazeer English. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
