Möxämmät-Ämin, three-time ruler of Kazan Khanate, mentioned in the Tsar Book during 16th century.
Total population
c. 6.2 million
Regions with significant populations
Russia:
Tatarstan: 2,012,571 (Official)
Bashkortostan: 1,009,295
Moscow: 149,043
5,310,649[1]
Uzbekistan
467,829[2]
Kazakhstan
203,371[3]
Ukraine
73,304[4]
Turkmenistan
36,355[5]
Kyrgyzstan
28,334[6]
Azerbaijan
25,900[7]
Turkey
25,500[8]
China
5,000
Lithuania
4,000
Estonia
1,981[9]
Finland
600-700[10]
Languages
Tatar, Russian
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam[11][12] with Orthodox Christian[13] and irreligious minority
Related ethnic groups
Bashkirs, Chuvash, Nogais, Crimean Tatars[14][15]
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized: tatary) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Eastern European Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam, followed by Orthodox Christianity.
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^Demographics azstat.org
^Joshua Project. "Tatar in Turkey". Retrieved 10 May 2015.
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^"Suomen tataareja johtaa pankkiuran tehnyt ekonomisti Gölten Bedretdin, jonka mielestä uskonnon pitää olla hyvän puolella".
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The VolgaTatars or simply Tatars (Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized: tatary) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native...
Tatar (/ˈtɑːtər/ TAH-tər; татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the VolgaTatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan...
largest subgroup of the VolgaTatars, after the Kazan Tatars. Traditionally, they have inhabited the middle and western side of Volga, including the nowadays...
referred to as Tatars, such as VolgaTatars, Lipka Tatars, Crimean Tatars, Mishar Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Tatar (Hazara tribe) and Siberian Tatars. Russia is...
Siberian Tatars was Tatar, a version based on the grammar rules of VolgaTatars. In the 21st century, work began on the rationalizing of the Siberian Tatar language...
hostility towards VolgaTatars to be pointed out as an excuse to avoid correcting xenophobia towards Crimean Tatars. Despite the Crimean Tatar language being...
majority of the VolgaTatars. The Tatar Union of the Godless were persecuted in Joseph Stalin's 1928 purges. A famine occurred in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet...
Volga Bulgaria or Volga–Kama Bulgaria (sometimes referred to as the Volga Bulgar Emirate) was a historical Bulgar state that existed between the 9th and...
and ethnic mixing of the Astrakhan Tatars with VolgaTatars. The Astrakhan Tatars (around 60,000) are a group of Tatars, descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate's...
the only subdivision designated for the Chinese Tatars. The Chinese Tatars are descendants of VolgaTatars who migrated to Xinjiang from their native Idel-Ural...
the middle and lower Volga. The Turkic Christian Chuvash and Muslim VolgaTatars are descendants of the population of medieval Volga Bulgaria. Another Turkic...
Tatars (Lipka – refers to Lithuania, also known as Lipkas, Lithuanian Tatars; later also – Polish Tatars, Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, Belarusian Tatars...
language group as that of the neighboring Kazakhs, Bashkirs and Crimean and VolgaTatars. Their religion was Muslim, but religious institutions were weakly developed...
influenced by Tatars who were strong representatives of Islam in the Volga-Urals region. This caused Chuvashes to define themselves as Tatars. Rachewiltz's...
Tatar cuisine is primarily the cuisine of the VolgaTatars, who live in Tatarstan, Russia, and surrounding areas. The cuisine of the VolgaTatars takes...
The VolgaTatars of Kazakhstan or Tatar Kazakhstanis are a minority in Kazakhstan, and make up 1.5% of the population. There are 249,000 VolgaTatars living...
ways. The majority of the population were Kazan Tatars. Their self-identity was not restricted to Tatars; many identified themselves simply as Muslims or...
shopkeeper, leader, publisher, teacher TatarsVolgaTatars Mishar Tatars Mishar Tatar dialect Tatar language Tatar alphabet Tatar name Turks in Finland The Finnish-Islamic...
(Tatar: керәшен(нәр), [k(e)ræˈʃen(nær)], Russian: кряшены; sometimes called Baptised Tatars (Russian: крещёные тата́ры)) are a sub-group of the Volga Tatars...
relations Islam in Japan TatarsVolgaTatars Japanese people in Turkey Known in Japanese as the 東京回教団 (Tokyō Kaikyōdan) Tatar: Tokyo'da Mätbää-i İslamiyä;...
urging of Tatar intelligentsia. Unlike many other nationalities within the Soviet Union, such as Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, VolgaTatars lacked a similarly...
cavalry. Settling there, they contributed to the formation of the Crimean Tatars.[citation needed] They raised various herds and migrated seasonally in search...
themselves Tatars until the 19th century. Russian sources originally distinguished Volga Bulgars from nomadic Tatars, but later the word "Tatar" became synonymous...
Despite the popular misconception, Crimean Tatars are not a diaspora of or subgroup of the Tatars. Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of Crimea's population...
among the Tatars and neighbouring groups. In the late 18th and 19th centuries industry developed, economic conditions improved and Tatars achieved more...
region was finally conquered by Russia, bringing the VolgaTatars and Bashkirs on the Middle Volga into the tsardom. Under Russian rule, Islam was suppressed...
recruited among Muslim VolgaTatar in the Soviet Union, but also included other Idel-Ural peoples, including Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Maris, Tatars, Udmurts, and Mordvins...
them as well as other Volga Finnic peoples like Meshchyora and Muroma have been assimilated by Tatars and became Mishar Tatars. Later, the land was settled...
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