Javanshir Qizilbash is an Azeri tribe and a part of Afshar

Afshar tribe

Afshars, also called Avshar are a branch of the Turkic Oghuz groups. These originally nomadic Oghuz tribes moved from Central Asia through Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, and finally most of them settled in Anatolia.Most of Afshars are followers of Shia Islam....

, adherent of Twelver Shī'ism. They belong to Qizilbash people of Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. In Afghanistan, the clan is known to have originally migrated into the country with Nader Shah Afshar. This tribe is living in Kabul city especially in Chindawol, Moradkhani, and Wazirabad district of kabul.

See also

• Afshar language
  Afshar language
  Afshar or Afshari, is a Turkic language spoken in Turkey, Syria, parts of Afghanistan and Iran. It is considered by many to be a dialect of Turkish...
  
  
• Avshar Turkmen
• Afsharid dynasty
  Afsharid dynasty
  The Afsharids were members of an Iranian dynasty of Turkmen origin from Khorasan who ruled Persia in the 18th century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the military commander Nader Shah who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty and proclaimed himself King of Iran. During Nader's reign,...
  
  
• Caucasian Albania
  Caucasian Albania
  Albania is a name for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus, that existed on the territory of present-day republic of...
  
  
• Javanshir clan
  Javanshir clan
  The Javanshir clan was a Turkic clan in Karabakh, which belonged to the Afshar tribe in turn a branch of Oghuz Turks. In the mid-18th century, after the death of Nader Shah, the Javanshir tribe seized power of the region. Panah Khan, the chief of the Javanshir tribe, established the Karabakh...
  
  
• History of Azerbaijan
  History of Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It's bounded by Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's Daghestan region to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the southwest, and Iran to the south...
  
  

Sources

• Christine Noelle. State and tribe in nineteenth-century Afghanistan: the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863). Psychology Press, 1997. ISBN 0700706291, 9780700706297