Deliboz
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| Country of origin | Azerbaijan |
| Distribution | Azerbaijan |
| Use | riding, light harness |
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| Colour | grey, dark colours |
The Deliboz (Azerbaijani: Diliboz atı) is an Azerbaijani breed of light riding horse. It is an ancient breed which underwent selective breeding in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in the twentieth century. It is one of four extant horse breeds in Azerbaijan, the others being the Karabakh, the Guba and the Shirvan.[2]: 7 It may also be called Daliboz or Dilbaz.[3]: 4
History[edit]
The Deliboz was a traditional local breed of Oriental type, with similarities to Persian and Turkoman horses;[4]: 461 it was distributed mainly in the Agstafa, Qazakh and Tovuz rayons of north-western Azerbaijan, and also in neighbouring areas of Armenia and Georgia. In the 1930s and 1940s, under the Soviet régime, a number of horses were selected from the general horse population as typical of the Deliboz type; some of these were crossed with Arab and Karabakh stallions. From the 1950s there was no further introgression from the Karabakh; cross-breeding with Arab and Tersk stallions continued.[5]: 281
The Deliboz is named for the Deliboz stud farm, which ceased to exist during the Second World War.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167206.
- ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed October 2014.
- ^ Farid Alakbarli (2016). Horses of Azerbaijan: A Historical Survey. Baku: Azerbaijan Association of Medical Historians. Accessed March 2019.
- ^ Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ^ N.G. Dmitriev, L.K. Ernst (1989). Animal genetic resources of the USSR. FAO animal production and health paper 65. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9251025827. Archived 13 November 2009. Also available here, archived 29 September 2017.
- ^ S.A. Dzafarov (1950). Skrešcivanie delibozskoi (kazahskoi) lošad = Crossing the Deliboz (Kazakh) horse. Konevodstvo 1950 (1): 12–14. Accessed March 2019.