The territory of Tatarstan, a republic of the Russian Federation, was inhabited by different groups during the prehistoric period. The state of Volga Bulgaria grew during the Middle Ages and for a time was subject to the Khazars. The Volga Bulgars became Muslim and incorporated various Turkic peoples to form the modern Volga Tatar ethnic group.
The region came under the domination of the Khanate of Kazan in the 15th century. The khanate was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and abolished in 1708. This period was marked by settlement of the area by Russians and attempts at conversion to Orthodox Christianity, provoking a number of rebellions among the Tatars and neighbouring groups. In the late 18th and 19th centuries industry developed, economic conditions improved and Tatars achieved more equal status with Russians. However, Tatar national consciousness was growing, and upon the October Revolution of 1917, national institutions were established and independence declared as the Idel-Ural State. After several years of civil war the Soviet government suppressed independence and established the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union.
Under Soviet rule there was a famine followed by progressive decline of the Tatar language, culture and religion both Christian and Muslim. The discovery of large petroleum deposits helped to promote further major growth in industry. Around the time of the fall of the USSR in 1991 there were again moves for independence, but in 1994 the region, under the name of Tatarstan, became a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. In 2008 a national assembly, the Milli Mejlis, declared Tatarstan independent, but this status has not been recognised by the United Nations or the Russian government.
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Tatarstan (Tatar: Татарстан; Russian: Татарстан), officially the Republic ofTatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a republic of Russia located...
Head (Räis) of the Republic ofTatarstan (Russian: Глава Республики Татарстан; Tatar: Татарстан Республикасы Рәисе, romanized: Tatarstan Respublikası...
Russian Chief of General Staff 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan Communist Party of the Republic ofTatarstan First Secretary of the Tatarstan Communist Party...
territory of the Udmurt Republic in the 1830s. They began to live on the territory ofTatarstan in the same period of time. Initially the vast majority of Ashkenazi...
(territories of modern Chuvashia and Tatarstan). Some autonomous duchies appeared in those areas. The southern steppe areas of Volga Bulgaria may have been settled...
Islam in Tatarstan existed prior to the tenth century, but it began major growth in 922, when Bulgar ruler Almış converted to Islam. This was followed...
The flag ofTatarstan; (Russian: Флаг Татарста́на, Flag Tatarstana, Tatar: Татарстан байрагы, Tatarstan bayrağı); a republic of Russia, was introduced...
territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia...
village of Shuran in the Laishevsky District ofTatarstan. Keşan "Кашан". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic ofTatarstan Academy of Sciences...
Ahmad) "Suar bäklege". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic ofTatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002....
Hasan, Ahmad; Masson, Vadim Mikhailovich [in French] (1992). Historyof Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. 1. UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-102719-2. Koryakova...
"Җангали бәк". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic ofTatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002. v t e...
representative of a spiritual board (muftiate). The office of a muhtasib is called a muhtasibat. There were about 44 muhtasibats in Tatarstan as of 2002. The...
about historyofTatarstan and the Tatar people. The publication is produced by Tatar Encyclopedia Institute of the Republic ofTatarstan Academy of Sciences...
The Mongol Invasion of Europe, Atheneum, 1979. p. 31 (in Russian) История Татарстана, Казань, "ТаРИХ", 2001. (HistoryofTatarstan) (in Russian) История...
of the XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013.[citation needed] Altogether, the premises of Kazan University are located throughout Russia in Tatarstan,...
sovereignty referendum was held in Tatarstan, Russia, on 21 March 1992. Voters were asked whether they approved ofTatarstan being a sovereign state. On 30...
that the authorship of the dastan "Qíssai Xöbbi xuca" also belongs to him. It was published in 1889.[citation needed] Islam in Tatarstan Kul Sharif Mosque...
Chronicle (Russian: Казанский летописец), also known as the Story of the Tsardom of Kazan (История Казанского Царства) or Kazan Story (Казанская история...
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