Zaze ili Dimiliji su iranski narod[1] u istočnoj Anatoliji odnosno istočnim turskim pokrajinama: Adıyaman, Aksaray, Batman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Erzincan (Erzıngan), Gumushane, Kars, Malatya, Mus, Sanliurfa, Sivas i Tunceli. Osim Turske, žive i u Gruziji, a iseljeničke zajednice žive u Njemačkoj, Kazahstanu i Nizozemskoj.

Krajevi u kojima žive Zaze.

Iako ih se ponekad svrstava u samostalnu etničku skupinu, brojni govornici jezika zazaki smatraju se Kurdima.[2][3][4][5]

Ima ih od 1 do 2 milijuna. Po vjeri su muslimani suniti i aleviti.

Poznata turska glumica Songül Öden je rodom Zaza.[6]

Poveznice uredi

Izvori uredi

  1. G. Asatrian, "DIMLĪ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica. [1]Arhivirana inačica izvorne stranice od 26. prosinca 2010. (Wayback Machine) "DIM(I)LĪ (or Zāzā), the indigenous name of an Iranian people living mainly in eastern Anatolia, in the Dersim region (present-day Tunceli) between Erzincan (see ARZENJĀN) in the north and the Muratsu (Morādsū, Arm. Aracani) in the south, the far western part of historical Upper Armenia (Barjr Haykʿ)."
  2. "Kurdish Nationalism and Competing Ethnic Loyalties", Original English version of: "Nationalisme kurde et ethnicités intra-kurdes", Peuples Méditerranéens no. 68-69 (1994), 11-37
  3. Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina. "Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium, Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present”, Berlin, 14-17 April 1995
  4. Ozoglu, Hakan. "Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state." Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004
  5. Romano, David. "The Kurdish nationalist movement: opportunity, mobilization, and identity." Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  6. "Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ ile aşk yaşadı mı?", Haber Türk, 27. prosinca 2009.