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    There are three main theories about the origins of Azerbaijanis: 1. Azerbaijan was originally inhabited by ancient Turkic peoples who some migrated away from and some later returned to, though this theory is not well supported. 2. Azerbaijanis were originally two separate Iranian and Caucasian groups that were later assimilated by Oghuz Turkic tribes in the 11th century. However, Iranians did not arrive in southern Azerbaijan until the 7th century BC. 3. Turkic peoples arrived in Azerbaijan earlier than the 11th century, as their ancestors originally lived there. The author believes this third theory is most likely correct due to facts contradicting the first two theories.

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    There are three main theories about the origins of Azerbaijanis: 1. Azerbaijan was originally inhabited by ancient Turkic peoples who some migrated away from and some later returned to, though this theory is not well supported. 2. Azerbaijanis were originally two separate Iranian and Caucasian groups that were later assimilated by Oghuz Turkic tribes in the 11th century. However, Iranians did not arrive in southern Azerbaijan until the 7th century BC. 3. Turkic peoples arrived in Azerbaijan earlier than the 11th century, as their ancestors originally lived there. The author believes this third theory is most likely correct due to facts contradicting the first two theories.

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    There are three main theories about the origins of Azerbaijanis: 1. Azerbaijan was originally inhabited by ancient Turkic peoples who some migrated away from and some later returned to, though this theory is not well supported. 2. Azerbaijanis were originally two separate Iranian and Caucasian groups that were later assimilated by Oghuz Turkic tribes in the 11th century. However, Iranians did not arrive in southern Azerbaijan until the 7th century BC. 3. Turkic peoples arrived in Azerbaijan earlier than the 11th century, as their ancestors originally lived there. The author believes this third theory is most likely correct due to facts contradicting the first two theories.

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    Three main conceptions about the genesis of Azerbaijanis and which of them
    you believe to be the true.

    There are three main theories related to the genesis of Azerbaijani people:
    1) The ancient Azerbaijan was the cultural centre of Azeri Turks that were living there.
    Some parts of these people moved to the North, North west, and east. Later, some
    immigrated tribes returned to their original territory and this was the last phase of
    development of Azerbaijnai people. This concept is relatively new and started when
    academician Marr said his opinion on Turks being native in Minor Asia. He stated this
    opinion without carefully researching all the facts. Thus, based on Marr’s statement ,
    “Sun Theory” appeared. This theory was weak and couldn’t prove a lot of facts.
    Some still say that the Shummers were ancestors of Turkish tribes. Based on some
    similarities in lexicon we can admit that there was some sort of contact between
    Shummers and Turks. But these similarities were due to close contact not because
    the shummers were the ancestors of Turks.
    2) Azerbaijani people were two separate tribes: Iranian speaking in the South of Araz
    river and Caucasian speaking in the north of Araz river. Later in XI century Oghuz
    tribes came and assimilated both of the 2 communities and so the Turkish language
    became the common language. But it is the known fact that Iranian speaking tribes
    came to southern Azerbaijan only in VII BC. It is totally incorrect to say thatfirst
    iranization and then turkization happened in Southern Azerbaijan. It’s hard to
    believe that same people could change their language, traditions and culture twice.
    3) Turkic people came to Azerbaijan a lot earlier than XI century. The ooponents of this
    theory say that, there were no Turkic people in Caucasus before the Christmas.
    Academician Djafarov first went against this concept and said that Turkic tribes
    returned to Azerbaijan because their ancestors lived there.
    I personally am more likely to believe in the 3rd concept,as there are too many facts
    speaking against the first two theories.

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