Əsədabad

Əsədabad
—  Municipality  —
Əsədabad
Coordinates:
Country  Azerbaijan
Rayon Yardymli
Population
 • Total 1,137
Time zone AZT (UTC+4)
 • Summer (DST) AZT (UTC+5)

Əsədabad (also, Əsədəbad, Asadabad, and Abas-Abad) is a village and municipality in the Yardymli Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,137. The municipality consists of the villages of Əsədabad and Ünəş.[1]

The population is almost totally made up of ethnic Talish/Talysh—an Iranic-speaking people whose Sunni Islamic religion distinguish them from the surrounding Turkic-speaking Shia Azeris (in all sides but the south) and the similarly Iranic-speaking, but Shia Muslim Gilanis /Gilaks to their south.

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