Shamil Asgarov

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name = Shamil Asgarov
Şamil Əskərov


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birth_date = 1928
birth_place = Aghjakand, Kalbajar
death_date = death date|2005|4|20|df=y
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citizenship = Azerbaijan
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ethnicity =Kurd
field = Poet, historian
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religion = Muslim
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Shamil Asgarov ( _az. Şamil Əsgərov, 1928, Aghjakand – 20 May 2005, Baku) was a Kurdish scholar, poet, and researcher on the history of the Kurds in Azerbaijan. He was the leader of Kalbajar's large Kurdish communitycite book
last =de Waal
first = Thomas
authorlink = Thomas de Waal
title = Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, p. 212
publisher = New York University Press
date = 2003
location = New York
isbn = 0-8147-1945-7] , former director of the Kurdish Museum in Kelbajarcite web
url = http://www.icare.to/archiveapril2003.html
title= I CARE - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe, NEWS - Archive for April 2003
accessdate=2008-06-30 ] , and editor of the kurdish newspaper "Denge Kurd" published from 1991 to 1999 in Baku, Azerbaijancite web
url = http://www.ca-c.org/online/2001/journal_eng/cac-02/13.velieven.shtml
title= Central Asia and the Caucasus - Journal of Social and Political Studies
accessdate=2008-06-30 ] . Shamil Asgarov translated a classic kurdish love story "Mem and Zin" into Azerbaijani and was the author of many books among them one, "Ferhenge", the Kurdish-Azerbaijani dictionary, was published in 1999 by the support of the Soros Foundation.

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