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The Hazara people in Iran are also referred to as Barbari (Persian: بربری), [152] or Khāwari (خاوری). [153] Over many years, due to political unrest in Afghanistan, some Hazaras have migrated to Iran. The local Hazara population is estimated to be around 500,000, with at least one-third having spent more than half their lives in Iran ...
Hazara culture (Dari: فرهنگ هزاره; Hazaragi: فرهنگ آزره) refers to the culture and tradition of the Hazara people, who live primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, the Balochistan province of Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world where the Hazara diaspora is settled as part of the wider Afghan diaspora.
Significant communities of Hazara people also live in Quetta, Pakistan and in Mashad, Iran, as part of the Hazara and Afghan diasporas. Map of Kabul Province and its surroundings showing the boundaries of the different Hazara tribes in 1893. Between 1888-1893, nearly 60% of the Hazaras were massacred and their land seized by the Pashtuns.
The Hazara ethnic minority fear returning to life under the Taliban - many are hiding in Pakistan. Afghan Hazara refugees live in fear of being deported by Pakistan Skip to main content
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997. Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek, as well as the minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat, Moghol, and others.
The Hazara people are an ethnic group who are mostly from Afghanistan, primarily from the central regions of Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat, they established a large diaspora that consists of many communities in different countries around the world as part of the later Afghan diaspora. There are currently a million Hazara who live in the ...
Hazara genocide (19th century) Over 60% of the Hazara population of Hazarajat were killed and some displaced. [3] The Hazara genocide occurred in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the Afghanistan Emirate signed the Treaty of Gandamak. Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman set out to bring the Turkistan, Hazaristan, and Kafiristan regions ...
The Hazara people [5] and surrounding peoples use the names "Hazarajat" or "Hazaristan" to identify the historic Hazara lands. "Hazarajat" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix "jat", [6] which is used to make words associated with land in the south, central and west Asia [7] [need quotation to verify] and "Hazaristan" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix ـستان ...