Lezgin groups of biographies

It involves high growth, strong physique and developed hairline. Lezgin's face is wide, with angular features and wide cheekbones. The hair is hard and dark, most often black, can also be dark blond or, less often, light blond. The color of the eyes is usually brown or gray, the eyebrows are straight, the nose is wide and long, the lips are chubby, the ears are tall with long lobes.

The profile is straight or convex, with a protruding chin. The back of the head is convex [1]. Where Lezghins live the largest places of residence of Lezgin - the north of Azerbaijan and the south of Dagestan. According to the census of the year, there were thousands of Azerbaijan Republic.

The real number can be twice as large, since many Lezgins are registered as Azerbaijanis. The census of the population in Russia of the year showed that thousand lives in the country. More than 17 thousand lives in Dagestan - thousand in the Tyumen region. It is a red canvas with a wide green strip in a framing of white narrow stripes in the lower part of the flag. Red color symbolizes the sun, freedom and the struggle for it, green - the revival of life and belonging to the Islamic religion, and white - nobility and purity [3].

During the discussion, the flag options with the Albanian letters or Iranian symbols “Moon wagon” were applied to it, but they were rejected. Lesgin Lesgin Lesginsky belongs to the Lezgin group of the Nakh-Dagestan language family. In Dagestan, it is approved as one of the official ones, and in all in Russia more thousand are used in this language. The Russian and Azerbaijani languages ​​are also common among Lezgin.

For writing, Lezgins use Cyrillic, before that the Arab alphabet was used, and in ancient times - the Agni letter. The Lezghinsky language is used by representatives of the people not only in communication, but also in literature and the media. It is divided into dialects that differ from each other with pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Ten facts about Caucasian languages ​​are considered difficult to learn due to a large number of cases and imperishable sounds [2].

In the Lezgin language, as in Russian, there are homonyms - words that are written or pronounced the same, but have different meaning. For example, the word "lecture" indicates both "eagle" and "liver" at the same time. Some researchers tried to connect this fact with the ancient funeral custom of the highlanders. It was customary to put the dead to eat the eagles, who supposedly first of all tried to excite the liver - just like in an ancient Greek myth about Prometheus.

Linguists refuted this theory and explained the appearance of these homonyms by chance: initially the words “eagle” and “liver” sounded differently, but then consonant in the word “liver” changed. Religion Lezgin The main religion of Lezgin - Sunni Islam. Believers Lezgins adhere to the rules and requirements of Islam: they make a Friday prayer, fasten Ramadan in a month, celebrate Kurban-Bayram and Uraza-Bayram, pay zakat-an annual tax in favor of the poor.

In addition, Lezghins follow the adams - national traditions and customs that relate to household spheres of life. Part of Lezgin in Dagestan belongs to Shiites and adheres to the Jafarit Mazhab. It was formed by the 2nd century BC. In written sources, the Caucasian Albanians were first mentioned in connection with the battle of Gavgamelh, where they fought against the army of Alexander the Great as part of the Persian forces [4].

Later, the ancestors of Lezgin were part of the political education of the Lakz Lekh, the Arab Caliphate and Derbent. Until the 17th century, the Persian shahs and the Ottoman Sultans repeatedly tried to subordinate Lezgin so that they fought in their interests. The peoples of the Lezgi language group were called "Legs" or "Lesg". Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Lesgin was considered the entire mountain population of Dagestan.

As a designation of only one people, the ethnonym entered use only after a year. The origin of the name "Lezgin" is still being studied. According to the census of the year, in those days in the USSR there was order of order in the second half of the twentieth century. Lezgin traditions.