Tat people (Caucasus)

The deed or deeds are a iranischsprachiges people that dwell in the present Republic of Dagestan (Russia) and in the north of Azerbaijan. You are linguistically related to the Gorani in western Iran.

The tatischsprachige population comprises approximately 30-50,000 people (as of 2003), the traditionally predominantly profess Islam, but also to Judaism or, more rarely on the Armenian Christianity. The majority of actions is Shia. The extent to which they have a common identity with the Jewish Tats ( Mountain Jews ), is controversial. Many members of the Jewish group (also: Judeo - deeds ) have emigrated to Israel in the last decades (see Aliyah ).

Origin

The deeds traditionally driven agriculture in the former province of Baku, where they should have immigrated under the Sassanids from Azerbaijan (Iran).

Language

The tatische language belongs to the Iranian languages ​​and is the Middle Persian very close. But it is now strong Turkish Siert. In Russia, Tat written language and one of the official languages ​​of Dagestan.

The word may indeed comes from the Turkic-speaking area and probably means " Persians ". The same root is also found in the word Tajik taking the same position as the act in the extreme east of the former Persia, and generally regarded as the Persians of Central Asia.