Tatars - Wikipedia Tatars[b] ( ˈtɑːtərz TAH-tərz) [31] are a group of Turkic peoples across Eastern Europe and Northern Asia who bear the name "Tatar" [32] Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes [33]
Tatar | History, Culture Language | Britannica Tatar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the Volga River and its tributary, the Kama, and thence east to the Ural Mountains
Who are the Tartar People? - WorldAtlas The Tartar people, also spelled as Tatar, are Turkic-speaking people that are mainly found in west-central Russia and other former Soviet Republics Initially, the name “Tartars” was used to refer to anyone who originated from the vast Central and Northern Asian region then known as the Tartary
Tatars - New World Encyclopedia Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland They collectively numbered more than five million in the late twentieth century
Who are the Tatars? | SIL in Eurasia - SIL International Tatars identify themselves as the descendents of the Bolgars, the people who lived in the Volga region before the Mongol invasion They converted to Islam in the year 922 The traditional Tatar homeland is by the Volga river in Central Russia
Tatars - Encyclopedia. com During the 15th and early 16th centuries, the Kazan Khanate became the most prominent, and its people became known as the Tatars (named for the Turkic tribes forced to fight in the vanguard of Genghis Khan 's armies)
Tatars - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major . . . The Tatars are a very diverse group, both ethnically and geographically The Tatars formed the second largest non-Slavic group (after the Uzbeks) in the former Soviet Union There are more than 6 6 million Tatars, of whom about 26 percent live in Tatarstan, an ethnic homeland that is located within the Russian Federation
The tatars - Learn More about the Tatar people In the Republic of Tatarstan, roughly half the 3 8 million citizens are Tatars, and Tatar is one of the two official languages (the other is Russian) The Republic of Tatarstan is not a sovereign country; it is a federal subject of the Russian Federation
Tatars - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tatars refer to a number of Turkic -speaking peoples, [7] which include (but are not limited to) the Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars But do not include the Crimean Tatars [8][9] Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in countries as Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan