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See also:KIZILBASHES (See also:Turkish, " Red-Heads ") , the See also:nickname given by the Orthodox See also:Turks to the Shiitic See also:Turkish immigrants from See also:Persia, who are found chiefly in the plains from Kara-See also:Hissar along See also:Tokat and See also:Amasia to See also:Angora . During the See also:wars with Persia the Turkish sultans settled them in these districts . They are strictly speaking persianized Turks, and speak pure See also:Persian . There are many See also:Kizilbashes in See also:Afghanistan . Their See also:immigration See also:dates only from the See also:time of See also:Nadir Shah (1737) . They are an industrious honest folk, chiefly engaged in See also:trade and as physicians, See also:scribes, and so on . They See also:form the bulk of the See also:amir's See also:cavalry . Their name seems to have been first used in Persia of the See also:Shiites in allusion to their red caps . See Ernest Chantre, Recherches anthropologiques clans l'Asie occidentale (See also:Lyons, 1895) . |
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