Mountain Jews

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Mountain Jews are the Mizrahi Jewish subgroup of the eastern and northern Caucasus, mainly Azerbaijan, and various republics in the Russian Federation: Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia–Alania, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, and are the descendants of Persian Jews from Iran.

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