Demography Arasbaran

in wake of russo-persian war (1804–13) significant fraction of inhabitants lived nomadic tribes. major tribes included; chalabianlu 1500 tents , houses, karacurlu 2500, haji-alilu 800, begdillu 200, , various minor groups 500. @ time ahar, 3500 inhabitants, city of qaradağ. beginning of twentieth century settlement of tribesman growing , in 1920 there more 4 hundred villages, less thirty of armenian. however, nomadic way of living has survived present. nomadic population @ present has been estimated 36000, , not different 30000 estimate of 1960.

the defeat of azerbaijan people s government , following events, resulted in mass migration of inhabitants tabriz , tehran. of these migrants settled in shanty towns , worked painters. land reforms of 1962–1964 accelerated migration. case of typical village, abbasabad, example demonstrate population depletion; number of families dropped 60 families @ 1970 12 @ 2006.

after election of ahmadinezhad president of iran, rumour circulated unesco compensate residents have village evacuated wild-life protection efforts. emigrants returned , built decent houses. @ present region undergoing population boom more wealthy city residents want spend retirement in cleaner environment. recently, deputy governor of east azarbaijan province has mentioned phenomenon of reverse migration khoda afarin , kaleybar counties. problem population aging , working class adults, in face of scarce job opportunities, live of year in large population centres such tehran. issue critical during recent presidential campaign, mohsen rezaee referred iranian villages old age residence.

language

the spoken language azerbaijani. has high degree of intelligibility anatolian turkish. inhabitants familiar persian language, official language of iran , sole language of education. until 1980, elders of 4 villages (chay kandi, kalasor, khoynarood, , arazin) communicating in tati, language iranian language of azerbaijan before arrival of speakers of turkish in time of mahmud of ghazni (around 1000 ad).