The Bashkardi people are an Iranian

ethnic group An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...

that speak the

Bashkardi language Bashkardi or Bashagardi, is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerma ...

in southeastern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. The Bashkardi people practice

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

and have an approximate population from 8,700 to 35,000.

Geographical distribution

The Bashkardi people primarily live in villages in the mountains near

Bashagard County Bashagard County () is in Hormozgan province, Hormozgan province, in southern Iran. Its capital is the city of Sardasht, Hormozgan, Sardasht. History After the 2006 National Census, Bashagard District was separated from Jask County in the est ...

in Hormozgan Province.

Ilya Gershevitch Ilya Gershevitch, FBA (24 October 1914 – 11 April 2001) was a noted Iranologist. Gershevitch was born in Zürich to Russian parents Arkadi and Mila, who raised him in Smolensk, migrated to Germany and later fled from Germany to Switzerland a ...

, expert on Iran, published "Travels in Bashkardia" in the

Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

in 1959.Ilya Gershevitch. "Travels in Bashkardia", Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 46, 1959, pp. 213-25

Gallery

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References

External links

* {{Commons category-inline, Bashkardi people, Bashkardi people Ethnic groups in Iran Iranian tribes