Description
The Avars are a Northern Caucasian people who speak a Caucasian language. The tribe, (with the common name "Aβar") "is one of a people of undetermined origin and language" according to the Encyclopædia Britannica. They were formerly known as the Turanian nomad people, which made their presence as "Pseudo-Avars" in the opinion of the Turkish qaganate (Göktürks) in Europe.
The Avars inhabit most of the mountainous part of Dagestan, as well as portions of the plains (Buynaksk, Khasav'yurt, Kizil'yurt and other regions). They also live in Chechnya, Kalmykia and other regions of the Russian state, as well as Azerbaijan (mainly, the Balakan and Zakatala rayons with 50,900 people in 1999 and 49,800 in 2009) and Georgia (Kvareli Avars with 1,996 people in 2002).
In 2002, the Avars, who have assimilated with ethnic groups speaking related languages, numbered about 1.04 million, of which 912,020 live in Russia (2010 census). 850,011 of those in Russia live in in Dagestan (2010 census), and 32% of them in cities (2002 number).
In Turkey, the population census number of the North Caucasian population is not underlined and they are considered as "ethnic Turks". According to Ataev B.M., according to A.M. Magomeddadaev's research, the Avarian population there should have been than 53,000 in 2005. The Avars call themselves "Awaral" (also "Ma'arulal").
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