Dimili

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Dimili is an alternative ethnonym historically used to refer to the Zaza people, an ethnic group primarily inhabiting eastern Anatolia in modern-day Turkey.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dimili canonical 3
Dimilis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnonym
alternativeNameFor Zaza people
associatedGroupMinorityStatus ethnic minority in Turkey
associatedWithLanguage Zaza language
associatedWithMigration Zaza diaspora in Europe
associatedWithReligion Alevi Islam
linked to: Alevism

Sunni Islam
continentContext Asia
countryAssociatedWith Turkey
culturalSphere Anatolian highlands
linked to: Anatolian Plateau

Kurdish-influenced cultural area
demographicType ethnic designation
ethnicCategory Iranian ethnic group
ethnonymFor Zaza people
geopoliticalContext Anatolia
hasAlternativeEthnonym Dimili Kurds
linked to: Hawrami people

Zaza
hasCollectiveIdentity Zaza identity
historicalUsage historically used as an ethnonym
identityDebate part of debates on whether Zazas are Kurds
isEndonymOrExonym primarily exonym
languageContext Turkish context
linguisticFamilyOfAssociatedGroup Northwestern Iranian languages
modernStatus less common than ethnonym Zaza
nameEtymologyStatus disputed
notCommonlyUsedAs official designation in modern Turkey
politicalSensitivity ethnic identity term in Turkey
populationCenterRegion Adıyaman Province
Bingöl Province
Diyarbakır Province
Elazığ Province
Erzincan Province
Erzurum Province
Sivas Province
Tunceli Province
Şanlıurfa Province
refersTo Zaza people
regionAssociatedWith eastern Anatolia
linked to: Eastern Anatolia
relatedEthnicGroup Zaza people
scriptUsedForName Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
sometimesConfusedWith Kurdish ethnonyms
usagePeriod historical
usedBy Ottoman-era sources
neighboring Kurdish populations
some Turkish sources
usedIn eastern Anatolia
linked to: Eastern Anatolia

modern-day Turkey
linked to: present-day Turkey
usedToReferTo Zaza people

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zaza people ethnonym Dimili
Zaza people ethnonym Dimilis
linked to: Dimili
Zazas selfDesignation Dimili