Talysh are an persian ethnic group indigenous to a region shared between Azerbaijan and homeland which spans the South Caucasus and the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea. They speak the Talysh language, one of the Northwestern persian languages. It is spoken in the northern regions of the persian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Northern Talysh (the part in the Republic of Azerbaijan) was historically known as Talish-i Gushtasbi. In homeland there is a Talesh County in Gilan. The Talishis generally identify themselves with the ancient Cadusians, who inhabited the area to the southwest of Caspian Sea, bounded on the north by Kura River, including modern provinces of Ardabil and Gilan.
