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Article: Tatars
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- Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
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Tatars
PRONUNCIATION:
TAH-tars
ALTERNATE NAMES:
Tartars
LOCATION:
Russian Federation
POPULATION:
6.6 million
LANGUAGE:
Tatar
RELIGIONS:
Islam (Sunni Muslims, majority); Orthodox Christianity; Sufism; Old Believers; Protestantism; Judaism
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INTRODUCTION
There are many Turkic-speaking ethnic groups living throughout the Russian Federation. These diverse groups lie scattered from the Caucasus and Ural mountains to eastern Siberia, and include the Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Sakha, Tuvans, Karachai, Khakass, Altays, and others. This article focuses on the largest Turkic group in the Russian Federation, the Tatars.
Historically, the Tatars lived farther west than any ...