A focused population profile of Nakhchivan Azeris, their South Caucasus enclave and eastern Anatolian borderland background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Nakhchivan Azeris are associated with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an Azerbaijani exclave bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey. The region sits at a key crossroads between the South Caucasus, eastern Anatolia, and Iranian Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani Turkish is the main language, while Russian, Turkish, Persian, Armenian, and Kurdish contact may appear in wider regional histories. This profile often sits near eastern Anatolian Kurdish and Azeri borderland references.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan is useful for comparison with Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Malatya, Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kayseri, Shabak Iraq, Azeri Azerbaijan Karabakh, Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kahramanmaraş, Kurdish Zaza Erzincan, Talysh Azerbaijan, Azeri Azerbaijan Shaki, and nearby Kurdish references.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan is Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Malatya. Other nearby references include Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kayseri, Shabak Iraq, Azeri Azerbaijan Karabakh, and Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kahramanmaraş. This gives the Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Nakhchivan Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as a borderland West Asian profile, close to Karabakh Azeris, Shaki Azeris, Talysh Azerbaijan, Shabak Iraq, and multiple Kurdish references from eastern Turkey and Syria.
The heatmap should emphasize Nakhchivan, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey, Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Talysh regions, Kurdish eastern Anatolia, and northern Iraq/Syria borderland references.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Malatya. Other nearby references include Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kayseri, Shabak Iraq, Azeri Azerbaijan Karabakh, and Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Kahramanmaraş.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Kurdish Kurmanji Turkey Malatya is the closest listed match to the Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan average after removing Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Azeri Azerbaijan Nakhchivan G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
