Yazidis in Georgia

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Yazidis in Georgia
Total population
12,174[1] (2014, census)
Languages
Kurmanji, Georgian
Religion
Yazidism or Sharfadin[2]

The Yazidis in Georgia are a part of the Yazidis who fled from the Ottoman Empire due to persecution in the 19th and early 20th centuries and sought refuge in Georgia.[3][4]

Yazidi temple Quba Siltan Ezid in Tbilisi, Georgia

History[]

The Yazidis in Georgia are among the poorest and most discriminatory people in Georgia. In the Soviet Union there was almost no contact between Yazidis in Georgia and Yazidis in Armenia with the Yazidis in Iraq, Turkey and Syria. In 1989 there were 33,000 Yazidis in Georgia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, thousands of Yazidis fled from Georgia to Germany because of persecution and discrimination. In 2008, the number of Yazidis in Georgia was 12,000.[3]

According the Georgian census in 2014, the number of Yazidis in Georgia was in the year 2014 a total of 12,174.[1]

In 1919 the Yazidis received permission from the Georgian government to register an organization called The Yezidi Ethno-Nationality Consultative Council in Tbilisi. The Yazidi organization stated that the Yazidis consider themselves as a separate nationality.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Ethnic Composition of Georgia
  2. ^ Asatrian, Garnik S.; Arakelova, Victoria (2014-09-03). The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54429-6.
  3. ^ a b Savucu, Halil (2016-10-10). Yeziden in Deutschland: Eine Religionsgemeinschaft zwischen Tradition, Integration und Assimilation (in German). Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN 978-3-8288-6546-4.
  4. ^ Ackermann, Rainer (2021-11-08). Um Himmels Willen: Eine religiöse Übersicht in eigenen Worten (in German). Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-7543-9848-7.
  5. ^ Tezcür, Günes Murat (2021-01-28). Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7556-0121-9.
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