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Shaqaqi is an originally Azerbaijani tribe. Its branches nowadays live in East Azerbaijan Razavi Khorasan and North Khorasan provinces of Iran and also in Palestine. They mainly speak Azerbaijani language and are Shiite Muslims. They moved from Syria and Turkey border Kurdistan region to Iran after the Safavid proclaimed Shia Islam as the official religion in Persia.

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