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  Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are the main population of Tatarstan.
Because it is understandable to all groups of European Tatars, as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs, the language of the Kazan Tatars became a literary one in the 15th century (iske tatar tele).
Western Tatars capital is the town of Qasím ( Kasimov in Russian transcription) in Ryazan Oblast with a Tatar population of 500.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatars   (3682 words)

  
 Tatars
The Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are descendants of the Volga Bulgarians, They settled on the Volga in the 8th century, where they mingled with Finnish stems and partly with descendants of the Kipchaks, settled on the Volga in the 13th century.
Kazan Tatars' language became literacy Tatar language since the 15th century (iske tatar tele), because it is understandable to all groups of European Tatars as well as to the Chuvash and Bashkirs.
Mişär Tatars capital is the town of Qasím (Kasimov in Russian transcription) in Ryazan Oblast whith a Tatar population of 1,000.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tatars.html   (3183 words)

  
 TATE, SIR H. - LoveToKnow Article on TATE, SIR H.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
TATAR PAZARJIK, or TATAR BAZARDJIK, a town of Bulgaria in Eastern Rumelia; on the river Maritza, and on the Sofia-Constantinople railway, 74 m.
TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct), a name given to nearly three million inhabitants of the Russian empire, chiefly Moslem and of Turkish origin.
The Kazan Tatars speak a pure Turkish dialect; they are middle-sized, broad-shouldered and strong, and mostly have fl eyes, a straight nose and salient cheek bones.
65.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TA/TATE_SIR_H_.htm   (1700 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The name of Tatars, or Tartars, given to the invaders, was afterwards extended so as to include different stems of the same Turkish branch in Siberia, and even the bulk of the inhabitants of the high plateau of Asia and its NW slopes, described under the general name of Tartary.
The present Tatar inhabitants of the Russian empire form three large groups-those of European Russia and Poland, those of Caucasus, and those of Siberia.
The Abakan or Minusinsk Tatars occupied the steppes on the Abakan and Yus in the 17th century, after the withdrawal of the Kirghizes, and represent a mixture with Kaibals (whom Castren considers as partly of Ostiak and partly Samoyedic origin) and Beltirs-also of Finnish origin.
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tatars.html   (1648 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Kazan Tatars identify their own past with the state of Volga Bulgaria, which was located at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers within present-day Tatarstan.
Tatars feel that this second-class status was a result of discrimination in favor of Russia, though this view could not be expressed openly during most of the Soviet period.
Tatar leaders began to argue that their republic, whose titular nationality's relative cultural and demographic position was even more favorable in the earlier periods of Soviet rule, had fulfilled the conditions for becoming a union republic from the very beginning of the Soviet period.
www.frizvanov.net /felix/tatarstn.htm   (2639 words)

  
 Tatars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once much more numerous Turkic population of the Ural - Altai c region, mixed to some extent with Finn ish and Nenets (Samoyed) stems, as also with Mongols.
The Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are descendants of the Volga Bulgaria ns, They settled on the Volga in the 8th century, where they mingled with Finnish stems and partly with descendants of the Kipchaks, settled on the Volga in the 13th century.
The Abakan or Minusinsk Tatars occupied the steppes on the Abakan and Yus in the 17th century, after the withdrawal of the Kirghiz es, and represent a mixture with Kaibals (whom Castren considers as partly of Ostiak and partly Samoyed ic origin) and Beltirs — also of Finnic origin.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tatars.htm   (3529 words)

  
 History of Kazan
Kazan, which like Rome stands on seven hills, is the capital of the ancient people and country whose names, though familiar, are shrouded in misconceptions.
Under its spell Kazan was transformed from a small frontier Bolgar town into a powerful citadel of the khans and a world-famous trading capital on the Volga; its spell overthrew Kazan, turning it into a captive without rights; its spell made it rise again, but in the form a capital of a huge province...
Kazan became in 1922 the capital of an autonomous Soviet republic and traversed the whole thorny path of the Soviet era.
www.kcn.ru /tat_en/history/capital.html   (894 words)

  
 Khanate of Kazan - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Kazan khanate ( Tatar : Qazan Xanlığı) ( 1438 - 1552) was a Tatar state on the territory of former Volga Bulgaria with capital in Kazan.
The Kazan Khanate was prone to civil turmoil and struggles for the throne.
The politics of the Kazan Khanate was strongly influenced by Muscovy, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Crimean Khanate.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Kazan_Khanate   (263 words)

  
 What are the different Tatar groups (ethnography)?
Kasymov Tatars are the refugees from Kazan Khanate who settled in Riazan in the 15th century under the leadership of Kasym Khan.
The ancestors of the Volga Tatars attained a high level of urban civilization in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries and their culture was not destroyed either by the Mongol invasion of the 13th century or by the Russian conquest of the 16th.
The ancestors of the northern and western Bashkirs were Ugrian or Finnic tribes, turkified and islamized during the period of the Golden Ordu and the Kazan Khanate.
www.geocities.com /Athens/9724/Tatar_FAQ-shs005.html   (730 words)

  
 FAQ about Tatars and Tatarstan with answers
11,517 Tara Tatars, in the valleys of Irtysh and Tara.
the Crimean Tatars (1905-1916)" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Uni-
KUZNETSOV ANATOLIJ----------- CHAIRMAN OF OF THE KAZAN DIVISION
www.turkiye.net /sota/tatarfaq.html   (4811 words)

  
 History of Tatarstan. Annexation of Kazan Khanate to Russian State
Beginning from the second half of the XVI century and till the end of the XVII century Sviyazhsk was the administrative, trade and Christian center of Russians to the East of the State.
In 1593 the Ukase (Decree) of Tsar Theodor Ioannovitch to destroy all mosques at the Kazan territory was edited.
Tatar Nation lost the possibility to develop Great Arts and expressed their creative imagination in a jewelry, architectural and artistic forging of metal, creation of decorations and utensils.
www.kcn.ru /tat_en/history/h_khane.html   (490 words)

  
 The Unreached Peoples - Condensed Version - Day 20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Kazan Tatars and the Bashkirs live along the Volga river.
Kazan Tatars view Christianity as a Russian religion, the few who convert and join the Russian Orthodox Church are considered cultural traitors.
After being looked down on for so long by Kazan Tatars, the Bashkir are proud of their separate status.
www.ad2000.org /ptw3cond/day20.htm   (476 words)

  
 Report from Kazan, Tatarstan
This is evident in the city of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, a region with a population of one million which declared its autonomy from Russia in 1991.
The Tatar language is part of the Turkic group and is closely related to Kazakh, Uzbek, Uighir, Bashkir, Turkmen, Kirghiz and Tadjik.
She is a professor at the University of Kazan and speaks fluent English.
www.forerunner.com /predvestnik/X0061_Tatars.html   (2140 words)

  
 Compliant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The name “Tatar” was given to the Republic by the Bolshevik’s garment of Russia with the only purpose: to impose by force the nickname “Tatar” on the Volga Bolgars.
In fact, tatarism (an ideology convincing that my people and I are Tatars) is raised to the level  of the state and compulsory ideology for everybody, that contradicting the legislation of RF, Art.
It is proved by reach studies of the director of Kazan Psychological Center R.Garifullin: “ 89 % of Russian speaking Tatars and 19 % of Tatars speaking the native language suffer with the feeling of inferiority (or lower self-appraisal) (the citizens of towns are prevailing in comparison with peasants).
www.mi.ru /~bolgar/eng2.htm   (7946 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:World Congress of Tatars opens in Kazan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Such congresses are held every five years and enjoy great popularity among the Tatar population of the republic.
On August 28th-29th, the Kazan congress will be attended by 560 delegates and more than 200 guests from different regions of Russia, former Soviet republics and foreign countries.
The round-table conference "Modern Culture and Tatar Youth" will be held in the National Cultural Centre "Kazan." The delegates and guests will be addressed by Marat Bariyev, the Minister for the Youth and Sports Affairs, and Rivkat Yusupov, rector of the Kazan State University of Culture.
newsfromrussia.com /society/2002/08/28/35431_.html   (299 words)

  
 Articles - Tatars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the 1910s they numbered about half a million in the government of Kazan ( Tatarstan, the Kazan Tatars'; historical motherland), about 400,000 in each of the governments of Ufa, 100,000 in Samara and Simbirsk, and about 30,000 in Vyatka, Saratov, Tambov, Penza, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Orenburg.
After colonisation of Siberia by Russian and Kazan Tatars, Baraba Tatars used to call themselves people of Tomsk, then Moslems';, and became to call themselves Tatars only in 20th century.
So there are no another 'Tatars'; like Kazan Tatars which have so many ancestors.
www.awningz.com /articles/Tatars   (3354 words)

  
 "Turkic Modernism at the Turn of the 20th Century" by Edward J. Lazzerini
Born among the Volga Tatars, Abdulnasir al-Kursavi (1783-1814 according to one source, but 1776-1818 according to another) was educated in the classical Islamic tradition and became a young theologian and professor at a medrese (higher theological school) in Bukhara, a leading center of Muslim theology at the time.
Hüseyn Feizkhanov was born in 1826 in the village of Sabachai, Simbirsk Province.
Vasilii Vasil'evich Radlov (1837-1918) was a well-known Russian orientalist, one-time inspector for the Tatar, Bashkir, and Kirgiz schools in the Kazan School District, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
www.iccrimea.org /gaspirali/modernism.html   (6920 words)

  
 NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
The term "Tatar" has been used in a variety of ways since it appeared for the first time among Mongolian and Turkic tribes in the 6th to 9th c.
It was not until the fall of the Khanates that the name "Tatar" became common also to denominate the poorer parts of the population.
In 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR adopted the "Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Republic of Tatarstan".
www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Tatarian   (568 words)

  
 Soviet Muslims: Kazan Tatars
The Tatars and Bashkirs, the Muslim people of the Volga-Ural region, were the first to fall under Russian domination 433 years ago [1552 C.E.] and were heavily suppressed by the Orthodox Russians.
In the year 1756, eighty percent of all mosques in the province (gubirna) of Kazan were destroyed.
After Catherine II's reforms in 1780, the Muslims began reproducing mainly religious literature and distributing it among the population.
www.cyberistan.org /islamic/tatar.htm   (555 words)

  
 Kanlıdere (1997) Reform within Islam: The Tajdid and Jadid movement among the Kazan Tatars, 1809-1917 : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kanlıdere (1997) Reform within Islam: The Tajdid and Jadid movement among the Kazan Tatars, 1809-1917 : conciliation or conflict?
Reform within Islam: The Tajdid and Jadid movement among the Kazan Tatars, 1809-1917 : conciliation or conflict?
Kazan§ (Russia); History; Islamic renewal; Kazan§ Tatars; Russia (Federation); Kazan§
www.getcited.org /pub/100410248   (54 words)

  
 Cuman language - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cuman language was a Turkic language spoken by the Cumans similar to today's Crimean Tatar language.
The Cumans were a nomad people that lived in the steppes of Eastern Europe, north of Black Sea before the Golden Horde.
They have been incorporated into other Turkic peoples: Crimean Tatars, Kazan Tatars, Karachays.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Cuman_language   (90 words)

  
 Islam, the Modern World, and the West
The Present Situation of the Soviet Muslims: The Example of Kazan Tatars first published in 1986 by Dr. N.
Tatar Religious Reformation by Dr. Aidar Youzeev, a senior researcher at the Institute of History in the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, is a short but informative article covering the most significant figures and events in the Tatar Islamic reformation from the 18th century until 1992.
The Mardjani Mosque in Kazan, the capital of the
www.uga.edu /islam/countries.html   (10770 words)

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