The Bashkardi people are an Iranian
ethnic group that speak the
Bashkardi language
Southern Bashkardi or Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. The languag ...
in southeastern
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
. The Bashkardi people practice
Islam and have an approximate population from 8,700 to 35,000.
The Bashkardi people primarily live in villages in the mountains near
Bashagard County in
Hormozgan Province.
Ilya Gershevitch
Ilya Gershevitch (1914 in Zürich – 2001 in Cambridge) was a noted Iranologist.
Gershevitch was born to Russian parents fleeing from Germany to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I.
He enrolled in the University of Rome in 1933, and mov ...
, expert on Iran, published "Travels in Bashkardia" in the
Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society in 1959.
[Ilya Gershevitch. "Travels in Bashkardia", Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 46, 1959, pp. 213-25]
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External links
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Ethnic groups in Iran