Information About ™Aimak |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT AIMAK | |
| ethnic groups in afghanistan | |
| ethnic groups in asia | |
| iranian peoples | |
| mongol peoples | |
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They were originally known as ''chahar'' or (the four) Eimaks, because there were four principal (the predominating element in the population of Ghowr ), the Ferozkhoi , the Temuri , and the Jamshidi . Estimates of the Aimak population vary between 250,000 and 2 million. They are Sunni Muslims , in contrast to the Hazara , who are Shiah s. They are predominantly of Iran ian or quasi-Iranian blood, while the Hazara are Turanian . They are a bold, wild people and are renowned fighters. The best estimates of the Aimak population in Afghanistan hover around 1-2 million. The tally is made difficult since, as a consequence of centuries of oppression of the Hazara people in Afghnanistan, some Aimagh Hazara s are classified by the state as Tajik , or Persian instead of Aimaks. Playing on this Sectarian Divide , successive Afghan governments (usually dominated by ethnic Pashtun s) divided the Aimaks and the Hazara s politically, listing them as separate nationalities, and thereby officially reducing the Hazara population as a percentage of the total Afghan population in official statistics. They are supposed to be descendants of Turkish- Tatar tribes that under Hulagu Khan overthrew the Persian Caliphate in the middle of the thirteenth century. REFERENCES
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