Zaze ili Dimiliji su iranski narodG. Asatrian, "DIMLĪ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica. "DIM(I)LĪ (or Zāzā), the indigenous name of an Iranian people living mainly in eastern Anatolia, in the Dersim region (present-day Tunceli) between Erzincan (see ARZENJĀN) in the north and the Muratsu (Morādsū, Arm. Aracani) in the south, the far western part of historical Upper Armenia (Barjr Haykʿ)." u istočnoj Anatoliji odnosno istočnim turskim pokrajinama: Adıyaman, Aksaray, Batman, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Erzincan (Erzıngan), Gumushane, Kars, Malatya, Mus, Sanliurfa, Sivas i Tunceli. Osim Turske, žive i u Gruziji, a iseljeničke zajednice žive u Njemačkoj, Kazahstanu i Nizozemskoj.
Iako ih se ponekad svrstava u samostalnu etničku skupinu, brojni govornici jezika zazaki smatraju se Kurdima."Kurdish Nationalism and Competing Ethnic Loyalties", Original English version of: "Nationalisme kurde et ethnicités intra-kurdes", Peuples Méditerranéens no. 68-69 (1994), 11-37Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina. "Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium, Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present”, Berlin, 14-17 April 1995Ozoglu, Hakan. "Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state." Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004Romano, David. "The Kurdish nationalist movement: opportunity, mobilization, and identity." Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Ima ih od 1 do 2 milijuna. Po vjeri su muslimani suniti i aleviti.
Poznata turska glumica Songül Öden je rodom Zaza."Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ ile aşk yaşadı mı?", Haber Türk, 27. prosinca 2009.
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