Zargari tribe

Zargar
Regions with significant populations
	Zargar, Qazvin, Iran
Languages
	Zargari Romani, Persian, Azerbaijani
Religion
	Shia Islam
Related ethnic groups
	Muslim Romani people

The Zargari people are a Muslim Romani people ethnic group deriving from Zargar, Iran and inhabiting Northwestern Iran.[1] They speak the Zargari Romani a distinct dialect of the Balkan Romani, most closely related to those of Rumelia.

Although the Zargari once consisted of several clans, most of these have dispersed and lost their native language. The residents of Zargar predominantly belong to the Pāshālār clan. They follow Shia Islam as their religion.

Origin and history

Historical documentation of their origins is lacking, but one seemingly-accurate tradition traces their origins to three Kuyumcu (Goldsmith) brothers,[2] (Persian: زرگر, zargar), who were migrated from Ottoman-held Rumelia, Maritsa Valley, today South Bulgaria to Ottoman Damascus from there invited to Shiraz as hostages during the reign of Nader Shah (1736-1747), and given pasture lands as a reward for their skills. As Romani, they were also exempted from taxation and military service.

References

Pstrusińska, Jadwiga (2014-07-18). Secret Languages of Afghanistan and Their Speakers. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-6441-1.
O'Connell, John Morgan; Castelo-Branco, Salwa El-Shawan (2010-09-23). Music and Conflict. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03545-6.

Bibliography

Baghbidi, Hassan Rezai. "The Zargari language: An endangered European Romani in Iran", Romani Studies, vol. 13, pp. 123–148 (2003).Wayback Machine
Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2010. Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire: The Example of a Gypsy/Roma Group in Modern Iran. Anthropology of the Middle East 5 (1): 93–99. Migrations West to East in the Times of the Ottoman Empire: The Example of a Gypsy/Roma Group in Modern Iran
McDowell, Bart. Gypsies: Wanderers of the World (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1970), pp. 163-166.
Windfuhr, Gernot. "European Gypsy in Iran: A First Report." Anthropological Linguistics 12.8 (1970): 271-292. European Gypsy in Iran: A First Report

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[1] Pstrusińska, Jadwiga (2014-07-18). Secret Languages of Afghanistan and Their Speakers. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-6441-1.

[2] O'Connell, John Morgan; Castelo-Branco, Salwa El-Shawan (2010-09-23). Music and Conflict. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03545-6.