Baku Governorate
According to the first ethnographer of Azerbaijan, Mahammadhasan Valili-Baharlu, there were 200,000 Padar families when they came to Azerbaijan with the Ilkhanate hordes. In the 19th century, 218 Padar families of 20 lineages Djavad uyezd of Baku Governorate. Later sources report that this number grew up to 382 families. Right now 70% of Padars live in Shamakhy city.