Editing Arabs (section)

==== Caucasus ====
{{main|Arabs in the Caucasus}}
[[File:Caucasus 1060 map en.svg|thumb|Georgia and the Caucasus in 1060, during the final decline of the emirate]]
In 1728, a Russian officer described a group of Arab nomads who populated the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] shores of [[Mughan plain|Mughan]] (in present-day [[Azerbaijan]]).<ref name="Genko2">Genko, A. ''The Arabic Language and Caucasian Studies''. USSR Academy of Sciences Publ. Moscow-Leningrad. 8–109</ref> It is believed that these groups migrated to the [[South Caucasus]] in the 16th century.<ref name="zelkina2">Zelkina, Anna. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih6b9iupT6oC&pg=PA101 Arabic as a Minority Language]. Walter de Gruyter, 2000; {{ISBN|3110165783}} p. 101</ref> The 1888 edition of [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] also mentioned a certain number of Arabs populating the [[Baku Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]].<ref name="Baynesp5142">Baynes, Thomas Spencer (ed). "Transcaucasia." Encyclopædia Britannica. 1888. p. 514</ref> They retained an [[Shirvani Arabic|Arabic dialect]] at least into the mid-19th century,<ref name="Bakik2">[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus2/Bakihanov/framevved.htm Golestan-i Iram] by [[Abbasgulu Bakikhanov]]. Translated by [[Ziya Bunyadov]]. Baku: 1991, p. 21</ref> there are nearly 30 settlements still holding the name ''Arab'' (for example, [[Ərəbqədim|Arabgadim]], [[Ərəbocağı|Arabojaghy]], [[Ərəbyengicə|Arab-Yengija]], etc.). From the time of the Arab conquest of the [[South Caucasus]], continuous small-scale Arab migration from various parts of the Arab world occurred in [[Dagestan]]. The majority of these lived in the village of Darvag, to the north-west of [[Derbent]]. The latest of these accounts dates to the 1930s.<ref name="zelkina2" /> Most Arab communities in southern Dagestan underwent linguistic [[Turkification|Turkicisation]], thus nowadays Darvag is a majority-[[Azerbaijanis|Azeri]] village.<ref name="Sefer2">Seferbekov, Ruslan. [http://www.tabasaran.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=171 Characters Персонажи традиционных религиозных представлений азербайджанцев Табасарана.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216032153/http://www.tabasaran.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=171|date=16 December 2008}}</ref><ref name="Wrum2">Stephen Adolphe Wurm et al. [https://books.google.com/books?id=glU0vte5gSkC&pg=PA966 Atlas of languages of intercultural communication]. Walter de Gruyter, 1996; p. 966</ref>