Hazaras

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Hazaras

The Hazaras (, ) are an ethnic group native to the region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan, speaking the Hazaragi variant of Dari, itself an eastern variety of Persian and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.

They are the third-largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. They also make up a significant minority group in the neighboring Pakistan, with a population of over 650,000–900,000, largely living in the region of Quetta.

Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire in the early 16th century, records the name "Hazara" in his autobiography. He referred to the populace of a region called "Hazaristan", located west of the Kabulistan region, north of Ghazna, and southwest of Ghor.

The conventional theory is that the name "Hazara" derives from the Persian word for "thousand" ( ). It may be the translation of the Mongol word (or ), a military unit of 1,000 soldiers at the time of Genghis Khan. With time, the term "Hazar" could have been substituted for the Mongol word and now stands for the group of people, while the Hazaras in their native language always call themselves ( ) and ( ).

The origins of the Hazara have not been fully reconstructed. Significant inner Asian descent—in historical context, Turkic and Mongol—is impossible to rule out because the Hazara's physical attributes, facial bone structures and parts of their culture and language resemble those of Mongolians and Central Asian Turks. Thus, it is widely and popularly believed that Hazara have Mongolian ancestry. Genetic analysis of the Hazara indicate partial Mongolian ancestry. Invading Mongols and Turco-Mongols mixed with the local Iranian population, forming a distinct group.
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