Assyrians in Azerbaijan

Determining the exact number of Assyrians in Azerbaijan is difficult, and it's believed that the community living in the country has become assimilated to larger Azerbaijani culture.

[3] After the treaties of Gulistan and Turkmenchay, Qajar Iran lost its territories in the Caucasus, and Assyrian emigration was influenced by the Russian Empire to what would become Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia.

[6] Assyrians also built the village of Siyaqut in the modern day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, with the people living there being religiously Chaldean Catholic.

During the 2015 census for the Republic of Artsakh, 16 Assyrians were recorded as having lived there, while the overwhelming majority of the population were ethnic Armenians.

[17] Although the Assyrian community has preserved unique funeral rituals and still uses Neo-Aramaic names, they are believed to be heavily assimilated into the larger society and culture of the Azerbaijan.