Chalabianlu

Chalabianlu (ČALABĪĀNLŪ) (چلبیانلو) is a Turkic tribe dwelling, for the most part, in the Garamduz District of Arasbaran region in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran.[1] In the wake of Russo-Persian War (1804–13) Chalabianlu was the second largest tribe of Arasbaran with 1500 tents and houses.[2] In 1960, the tribe comprised 1,974 households and, by then, nearly all the tribesmen were sedentary.[3]

The tribe's fame is due to their notorious headman in early twentieth century, Rahimkhan Chalabianloo, who fought on the royalist side during Persian Constitutional Revolution.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/calabianlu-a-turkicized-tribe-dwelling-for-the-most-part-in-the-dehestan-of-garmaduz-in-arasbaran-q
  2. ↑ R. Khanam, Encycl. Ethnography Of Middle-East And Central Asia, 2005, p. 313
  3. ↑ P. Oberling, “The Tribes of Qarāca Dāġ,” Oriens 17, 1964, pp. 78-88.
  4. ↑ http://garph.co.uk/IJARMSS/Nov2012/6.pdf