Jalali (Kurdish tribe)

Jalali (Persian: جلالی‎, Kurdish: Celalî‎, Turkish: Celâlî) are a Kurdish tribe in eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. They predominantly inhabit the Diyadin district in the Ağrı Province and the Maku district in the West Azerbaijan Province.

According to Basile Nikitine, the Jalali were Kurdicized Armenians. Moritz Wagner suggested Armenian connection.[1] Russian kurdologist Avrianof said that Jalali tribe has Armenian roots.

References

  1. ↑ Pierre Oberling, JALĀLI, Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume 14, Part 4, Page 441.

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