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Share of Tatars in regions of Russia, 2010 census. The Tatars [b] (/ ˈ t ɑː t ər z / TAH-tərz), [32] is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. [33] Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation.
Tatars inhabiting the Republic of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia, constitute one third of all Tatars, while the other two thirds reside outside Tatarstan. Some of the communities residing outside Tatarstan developed before the Russian Revolution of 1917, as Tatars were specialized in trading.
Tatars refer to several Turkic [1] ethnic group numbering 7.3 million in 21st century, including all Turkic subgroups that are still referred to as Tatars, such as Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Tatars in Lithuania, Crimean Tatars, Mishar Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Tatar (Hazara tribe) and Siberian Tatars. Russia is home to the majority of ethnic ...
Siberian Tatars (Siberian Tatar: Себер татарлар, romanized: Seber Tatarlar) are the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of Western Siberia, originating in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to the Yenisey River in Russia. The Siberian Tatars call themselves Yerle Qalıq ("older ...
The Russian Orthodox Church is the second largest active religion in Tatarstan, and has been so for more than 150 years, [53] with an estimated 1.6 million followers made up of ethnic Russians, Mordvins, Armenians, Belarusians, Mari people, Georgians, Chuvash and a number of Orthodox Tatars which together constitute 38% of the 3.8 million ...
Kryashens are Orthodox Christians and some of them regard themselves as being different from other Tatars even though most Kryashen dialects differ only slightly from the Central dialect of the Tatar language and do not differ from the accents of the Tatar Muslims in the same areas. The 2010 census recorded 34,882 Kryashens in Russia.
The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide [c 1] of at least 191,044 [c 2] Crimean Tatars that was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy ...
Tatar people from the Russian Empire (17 P) V. Volga Tatars (3 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Tatar people of Russia" The following 187 pages are in this category, out ...