Javanshir Qizilbash

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Jawanshir Qizilbash (Azerbaijani: Cavanşir-Qızılbaş tayfası) is an Azerbaijani tribe and a part of the Afshar, adherents of Twelver Shi'ism. They belong to Afghan Qizilbash people. This tribe is living in Kabul city especially in Chindawol, Moradkhani, and Wazirabad.

In Afghanistan, the clan is known to have originally migrated into the country during the reign of Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747).

• Afshar language
• Afshar tribe
• Afsharid dynasty
• Caucasian Albania
• Javanshir clan
• History of Azerbaijan
• Qizilbash

• Christine Noelle. State and tribe in nineteenth-century Afghanistan: the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863). Psychology Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7007-0629-1, ISBN 978-0-7007-0629-7

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