Sheylanli (tribe)
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Sheylanli tribe (Kurdish: شیلانلی)[1] is a Kurdish tribe[2][3][4] who lived in the Sheylanli village, Lachin,[5] until it was occupied by Armenian troops.[6][7] Due to the war, the Sheylanlis fled to Aghjabadi Rayon, Azerbaijan.[8] They speak the Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish Language.[9]
This tribe is considered to be one of the 24 Kurdish tribes[10] those were moved from Iran to Karabakh and Zangezur by Shah Abbas I of Iran in the 16th century to fortify the borders of the Safavid Empire.[11] Tatiana Fyodorovna Aristova gives some Sheylanli Kurdish family names such as Asadlar, Ismaillar, Nabilar, and Khudular in the book Kurdy Zakavkazia.[5] The author mentions Sheylanli, Zerty, and Minkend among the poorest Kurdish communities of Azerbaijan in Lachin.