 Over the past hundred years, along with highland Jews, other ethnolinguistic groups or the regions—Ashkenazi, Krymchaks, Kurdish Jews, and Georgian Jews—also lived in Azerbaijan.However, since the 19th century, the majority of Jewish population of republic is consisting of Mountain Jews.The first Jewish settlement in the area was named "Kulgat" on the left bank of the Gudjalchay, just a few kilometers from present day Qırmızı.