Karachays, Kumyks, Circassians, North Caucasian peoples
Balkars (Karachay-Balkar: Малкъарлыла, romanized: Malqarlıla or Таулула, romanized:Tawlula, lit. 'Mountaineers')[2] are a Turkic ethnic group in the North Caucasus region, one of the titular populations of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Their Karachay-Balkar language is of the Ponto-Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern (Kipchak) group of Turkic languages.
^"Russian Census of 2021". (in Russian)
^Peter B. Golden (2010). Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia. p. 33.
Kumyks from Dagestan. Sometimes Balkars and Karachays are referred to as a single ethnicity. The ethnogenesis of the Balkars resulted, in part, from: The...
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inoculating the milk of cows, goats, or sheep with kefir grains. Karachays and Balkars are the creators of Kefir and Kefir Yeast. The drink originated in the...
about 500 years previously. The Karachays and Balkars spoke similar Turkic languages. East of the Balkars were the Ossetians – Iranian speakers descended...
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domination of the Khazars. Some[who?] also believe that the present-day Balkars of the Caucasus are the descendants of the Batbayan horde even though they...
return of the Balkars, the KBASSR is re-instated on 9 January 1957. On 31 January 1991, the republic declared sovereignty as the Kabardino-Balkar SSR and from...
army. In the 1940s, around 480,000 Chechens and Ingush, 120,000 Karachay–Balkars and Meskhetian Turks, thousands of Kalmyks, and 200,000 Kurds in Nakchivan...
Turkish, Chagatai, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Azeri, Uzbek, and Karachay-Balkar; Caucasian languages such as Georgian, and, to a lesser extent, Avar and...
Circassian lords subjugated and vassalized the neighbouring Karachays and Balkars and the Ossetians. The term Circassia is also used as the collective name...
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was liquidated. In April 1944, all Balkars were deported to faraway places from the territory of the Kalbino-Balkar Autonomous Republic and the Republic...
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were entirely deported to the Central Asian SSRs (Chechens, Karachays, Balkars and Crimean Tatars also were deported). The reason was stated as "freeing...
Mojsov also sent messages of condolence to their Turkish counterparts. Balkars body was flown to Ankara aboard a special aircraft and the funeral was...
groups living in the region—the Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars—were accused of having collaborated with the Germans...
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