A focused population profile of Zanjan Azeris, their northwestern Iranian Azeri background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Zanjan Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking people from Zanjan Province in northwestern Iran, a region between Iranian Azerbaijan, the central Iranian Plateau, Kurdistan-adjacent areas, and Tehran-facing migration routes.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Persian are both important, while regional Iranian languages may also appear in the wider setting. Zanjan is useful for understanding Iranian Azeri variation away from the immediate South Caucasus border.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Iran Zanjan is useful for comparison with Azeri Iran Ardabil, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Khamseh Turkic, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz, Azeri Iran Tehran, Turkish Igdir, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, and Azeri Azerbaijan Karabakh.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Azeri Iran Zanjan is closest to Azeri Iran Ardabil, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Khamseh Turkic, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz, Azeri Iran Tehran, Turkish Igdir, and Azeri Turkey Ardahan. The result places Zanjan Azeris in an Iranian Azeri and northwestern Iranian comparison space with transborder Azeri links.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Zanjan Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as Iranian Azerbaijani, close to Ardabil, broad Azeri Iran, Tabriz, Tehran Azeris, Khamseh Turkic, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
The heatmap should emphasize Zanjan, Ardabil, Tabriz, Tehran Azeri communities, Iranian Azerbaijan, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, Igdir, and the northwestern Iranian plateau.
Yes. Azeri Iran Ardabil is the closest match in this comparison.
Yes. Both Tabriz and Tehran Azeri references appear in the close-match list.
Khamseh Turkic shares Iranian Turkic-speaking ancestry patterns with Iranian Azeri references.
