Azerbaijanis in Germany
Most of the Azerbaijanis in Germany immigrated from eastern Turkey , Iran and Azerbaijan . A total of 120,000 to 140,000 Azerbaijanis live in Germany, of which only 4,000 are citizens of Azerbaijan.
Most of them are Shiites , and there are also Sunni Muslims among the German Azerbaijanis. Most speak Azerbaijani as their mother tongue, and to a lesser extent German .
history
The first settlers from Azerbaijan in Germany were Iranian Azerbaijanis ; other Azerbaijanis came from their place of birth in Turkey and began to settle in West Germany (in the Federal Republic of Germany) from the 1960s, bringing the number of Azerbaijani diaspora in Germany to over 190,000. A second wave of migrants of Azerbaijani origin came at the time of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , when 10,000 Azerbaijanis immigrated to Germany mainly for economic reasons.
statistics
Many Azerbaijanis live in Berlin, which has an Azerbaijani population of 14,000 to 17,000. There are also considerable Azerbaijani groups living in Cologne , Bremen , Hamburg , Mainz , Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Düsseldorf and Stuttgart .
Depending on the estimate and self-assessment, between 15,219 (2006 census) and 140,000 Azerbaijanis live in Germany.
Web links
- Azerbaijani (Azeri, Azeri Turks) population (1990 data) . English. Online at sunse.jinr.ru.
- Alumniportal Azerbaijan . German.
Individual evidence
- ^ Diaspora in Germany , German Azerbaijan Forum. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ↑ a b Азербайджанцы хорошо интегрированы в германское общество - Нусрет Дельбест ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has not yet been checked automatically. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Russian. Online at Azeri.ru January 25, 2008. Accessed June 18, 2011.
