Avar-Andi-Dido peoples

Avar-Andi-Dido peoples

The Avar-Andi-Dido peoples consists of 13 small ethnic groups plus the much larger Caucasian Avar peoples. Since the 1930s there have been attempts to classify them all as Avars, but the 2002 Russian Census presents a broad variety of designations of these people.

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*cite book |title= Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook|last= Wixman|first= Ronald|year= 1984|publisher= Sharpe Reference|location= New York|isbn= 9780873325066|pages= 17


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