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	Tatar language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tatar is a Turkic language, which is considered part of the disputed Altaic language family.
		Tatar is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan.
		Tatar's ancestors are the extinct Bolgar and Kipchak languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatar_language (1666 words)

	Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the once numerous Turkic-Mongolian population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with the speakers of Uralic languages, as well as with Mongols.
		Because it is understandable to all groups of Russian 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 Tatar population of 500.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tatar (4683 words)

	Kazan, Russia (Capital) - LoveToKnow 1911
		KAZAN (called by the Cheremisses Ozon), a town of eastern Russia, capital of the government of the same name, situated in 55° 48' N. and 49° 26" E., on the river Kazanka, 3 m.
		Kazan is, further, the intellectual centre of the Russian Mahommedans, who have here their more important schools and their printing-presses.
		The Kazan Tatars, from having lived so long amongst Russians and Finnish tribes, have lost a good many of the characteristic features of their Tatar (Mongol) ancestry, and bear now the stamp of a distinct ethnographic type.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kazan,_Russia_(Capital) (920 words)

	ipedia.com: Kazan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1708 Khanate of Kazan was abolished and Kazan became the center of guberna.
		Kazan is served by an Kazan airport approximately 15 kilometres from the city centre.
		Kazan is connected with Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Yoshkar-Ola and Yekaterinburg by railways and highways, there are highway connections to Samara, Orenburg, Ufa, Cheboksary, Yar Çallı, Älmät, Bögelmä and Çístay.
	fav.ipedia.com /kazan.html (1401 words)

	«THE TATAR GAZETTE» - THE TATARS IN MORDOVIA
		Tatar language is taught only to a group of Tatar students in the Ichalki pedagogical school.
		Tatar is taught by teachers of different subjects, they get some training during the course of qualification’s improvement in the College of Teacher’s Skills Improvement.
		Young Tatars with a university degree don’t eager to work to the state structures, where there are many obstacles for them, usually artificial, and they go to those spheres of activities, where their nationality does less harm.
	www.members.tripod.com /tatargazeta/eng_tatary.html (1562 words)

	Kazan as a City of Russia / KAZAN 1000 (MILLENNIUM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kazan became the centre of gubernia (province) in 1708, when, according to the reform of Peter the First, Russia was divided into several provinces.
		Kazan was the centre of culture and education in the region.
		Kazan was still a big trading center both in the east of the European Russia and on the way to the Central and Middle Asia.
	www.kazan1000.ru /eng/history/engkazan.htm (1263 words)

	A. Rorlich - Origin of the Volga Tatars
		Later, they [the Tatars] mixed with them [Kypchaks], and the land had priority over their racial and natural qualities and they [the Tatars] became like Kypchaks, as they were of the same origin with them, because the Tatars settled on their lands, married them, and remained to live on their lands.
		According to him, the ethnogenesis of the Kazan Tatars had been completed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they emerged as descendants of the Bulgars and the turkicized local Finno-Ugric tribes that were assimilated by the Golden Horde Tatars — carriers of a new language and a new ethnonym.
		(Kazan, 1974); "Istoki formirovaniia turkoiazychnykh narodov Srednego Povolzh'ia i Priural'ia," in Voprosy etnogeneza tiurkoiazychnykh narodov Srednego Povolzh'ia i Priural'ia (Kazan, 1971), pp.
	members.tripod.com /~Groznijat/fadlan/rorlich1.html (2937 words)

	Kazan-The upper town
		Kazan's buildings are especially eloquent at down, when the light breeze from the Volga quietly rustles the leaves in the squares and parks, when the street and the boulevards of the city are bathed in dew and reflect as a mirror the spreading, colourful mirages of Kazan.
		The old Tatar art, architecture and craftsmanship could be seen here and there in the provincial capital of Kazan, in the subjects and ornaments of the bas reliefs, in the exquisite wrought-iron weather-vanes and city railings.
		The artistic metal-wo rking of Tatar craftsmen has its roots in the ancient Volga Bolgar and old Turkic era, but from the middle of the sixteenth century the Kazan Tatars were forbidden by an imperial decree to engage in all forging and metal-working that required the use of f ire.
	www.kcn.ru /tat_en/kazan/uptown.html (3132 words)

	The Kazan Kremlin : The Republic of Tatarstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Kazan Kremlin : The Republic of Tatarstan
		Traditional Tatar Islamic architecture, which characterized the appearance of the Kazan Kremlin throughout the preceding centuries, was soon replaced by traditional Russian Orthodox architecture, which, in its turn, reflected the key features of the then European way of building fortresses and temples.
		While the Kazan Kremlin is protected by law, it also remains open to visits by Russian and overseas tourists, and guests of the city of Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan.
	www.tatar.ru /?DNSID=fa443885d00f05faea4624dfd8699325&node_id=1285 (2650 words)

	Welcome to AATT - Tatar
		One third of Tatars resides in Tatarstan, a republic located on the left bank of the Volga river, in the European part of Russia, 800 kilometers east of Moscow, whose capital is Kazan.
		Tatar intellectuals were the first Muslims of the Russian Empire to demand cultural and (ultimately) national autonomy for themselves.
		In June 1920, Tatar was declared the official language of the new Autonomous republic of the Soviet Union along with Russian.
	www.princeton.edu /~turkish/aatt/tatar.htm (1452 words)

	INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY TATAR
		Tatar is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation).
		Outside of Tatarstan, there are large populations of Tatars in the Volga region, Siberia, Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions of Russia, as well as in newly independent states, such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
		Modern literary Tatar language preserves the traditions of a language that was a universal means of communication for Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyzes and many other Turkic people.
	www.asu.edu /clas/reesc/cli/tatarsyll.htm (847 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		The closest relative of Tatar is BaÅ¡kir (Bashkir).
		Old Tatar used a system of writing based on the Arabic script, but it did not suit Tatar well, because Tatar had a number of sounds that were not represented in Arabic script, e.g.
		Tatar is an agglutinative language, and has a large number of suffixes which are used for inflection and derivation.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=65&menu=004 (1450 words)

	Kazan Hotels
		Kazan is a city with a colourful, violent, complicated, rich history.
		Present relations between the Tatars and Russians are for the most part stable, although there are segments of Tatar society who agitate strongly for Tatar independence.
		Tatar language is taught in schools in Kazan, and the red, white and green flag of Tatarstan flies over government buildings
	www.hotels-russia.info /kazan.htm (343 words)

	OHCHR: Tatar () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tatar, also spelled Tartar, is spoken in the Reppublic of Tatarstan and other Republics of the former Soviet Union, and also in Siberia.
		Tatar is a Turkic language belonging to the Altaic family.
		The Tatars first appear in Russian history in the 13th century when, as the Mongols, they overran most of the country and settled down to rule.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/ttr.htm (191 words)

	History of Tatarstan. Kazan of the XIX and XX centuries
		Tatar State Theatre was established on the base of this troupe in 1920.
		Tatar Opera as well as musical Comedy originated from the musical Drama, founded by the first professional conductor and composer Salich Saidashev.
		The first Tatar national ballet on his fairy tale-poem "Shurale" was staged in Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1945 (composer F.Yarullin).
	www.kcn.ru /tat_en/history/h_nowe.htm (563 words)

	Tatar Groups
		Tipters composed of 328 thousands of people in the beginning of the century XX was the subgroup of Kazan Tatars and they constituted the greatest organisation of Ural Tatars.
		Perm Tatars is the subgroup of Kazan Tatars and they live in the neighbourhood of the provinces of Perm and Ekaterinburg.
		The Miser dialect is the Northern dialect of the Tatar dialect.
	www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0007/0007_03_03.htm (801 words)

	Turco-Ukrainian Relations and the Crimean Tatars
		Throughout the consecutive crisis and tension in the Crimea since 1991, stemming from the efforts of Russian separatism, the Crimean Tatars proved to be the sole organized and substantial local force in the Crimea who have been determined to defend that the peninsula belonged to the Republic of Ukraine.
		Although the Crimean Tatars indeed had their own distinct and rich historical past and national formation, long parts of this history is inextricably entangled with that of Turkey.
		The great deal of attention which the plight of the Crimean Tatars has attracted on the part of both the Turkish public and government was noted by the Ukrainian leadership, which has taken pains to demonstrate its support for the return of the Crimean Tatars to their homeland and their reintegration into local life.
	www.iccrimea.org /scholarly/tuarel-hakan.html (3912 words)

	denizzOne
		Tatar etno rock/jazz band was founded in 1992 by Deniz Bedretdin to bring contemporary and alternative music to the tatar culture in their language
		Tatars all over the world got together for the first time in their history.
		From 1993 the KGB band has been arranging tatar folk music with progressive rock influences and at the same time Deniz started to write his own music in tatar language.
	koti.welho.com /dbedretd/kgb.htm (696 words)

	Imperialtravel.net - Plases: Kazan
		The capital of Tatar Republic was founded in the 13th century by Mongols who had occupied Russia.
		The city was conquered and almost destroyed in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible, who forced the Muslim khan to become Christian and forced Tatars to the country's borders.
		The city has preserved many of its ancient buildings, including the remarkable Kazan Kremlin, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, and the striking Syuyumbike Tower named after a long-suffering princess who was married to three successive khans.
	www.imperialtravel.net /kazan.shtml (104 words)

	Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Tatar language
		Tatar language is also spoken among the Bashkirs (227,8 thousand Bashkirs regard it as their mother tongue) and Maris.
		The modern literary language was developed under the influence of spoken Tatar since the middle of the 19th century.
		Tatar gazetasi - Cultural and educational newspaper of the Tatar community in the Republic of Mordovia in Tatar, Russian and English
	www.peoples.org.ru /eng_tatar.html (469 words)

	Go To Kazan, Russia: Kazan News, Forum and Video Feeds
		Kazan opens "Business Terminal" at Kazan Airport, Terminal I is for International Flights, Terminal II will be for Business.
		Their close proximity is a symbol of Kazans peaceful religious tolerance.
		Grand Opening of Tatar State Pedagogical University in the heart of downtown Kazan on Tatarstan Street, The school features 28 fields of study, a joint university with America, a library with over 1 million books, modern facilities and laboratories.
	gotokazan.com /news.php (271 words)

	World Report 367 -- March 2002 #37
		KAZAN, Tatarstan, Russian Federation — When Ivan the Terrible conquered what is now the Republic of Tatarstan in 1552 he was determined to convert the Tatars to Christianity, using force if necessary.
		Many Tatars today still feel that it is a ‘Russian’ religion, and only a small part of the population – a little over 200,000 out of a population of seven million – is Christian.
		Work on translating the Bible into Tatar was begun during the communist years of the 1970s by the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT), but only really took off in 1993 when IBT formed a partnership with other Bible agencies, with assistance from UBS.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_367/367_37.htm (627 words)

	Kazan State University :: Center for Comparative European Studies
		Kazan State University (KSU) is located in city of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, The Russian Federation.
		Before the revolution of 1917, the Russian imperial government considered Kazan its “window to the East,” while St. Petersburg was Russia’s “window to the West.” The first Russian department of Oriental Studies was established in Kazan.
		Today, Kazan is an important intellectual and educational center, home to 67 institutions of higher learning.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~crcees/kazan.html (1172 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The city, a center of Tatar and Islamic culture, is the site of Kazan State University (1804), where
		Although historical sources differ, the founding of Kazan is now officially dated to 1005.
		In the 15th century the city became the capital of a powerful Tatar khanate.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ka015100.a (254 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The moderate nationalist Tatar Public Center's (TIU) chairman, Reshit Yegeferov, said his Tatar movement chose to cooperate with the Russian Communist Workers Party-Russian Party of Communists in the current parliamentary campaign because it is the only way to get into a parliament that lacks Tatar ethnic-rights supporters, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported on 11 March.
		Meanwhile, a Vakhitov district court in Kazan is considering the city administration's suit seeking to cancel its contract on providing the TIU's office with electricity, water, and heating, although the organization paid off its long-standing debts in December.
		Reviving a tradition from early last century, Tatar businessmen working in Tyumen Oblast have established an assembly to support Islamic education and grant material assistance to religious tutors who are being educated in Kazan's Muslim religious schools, islam.ru reported on 11 March.
	www.rferl.org /reports/tb-daily-report/2004/03/0-120304.asp (856 words)

	Kazan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Kazan’s port and shipyards on the Volga make it an important water transport center.
		Founded in 1401, Kazan became the capital of a powerful, independent Tatar khanate (1445), which emerged from the empire of the Golden Horde.
		Tolstoy and Lenin studied at the Univ. of Kazan (founded 1804).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ka/Kazan.html (226 words)

	Tour of Kazan / KAZAN 1000 (MILLENNIUM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		New digital photo-format VolumePhoto gave the opportunity to record the atmosphere of Kazan City during the Millennium Celebration Days in full.
		We are grateful to EnterNetica Company for their help in shooting organizing.
		Materials of a presentation compact disc " Kazan 1005 - 2005 " are used.
	www.kazan1000.ru /eng/turist/volumephoto.htm (115 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:tat
		Capital is Kazan (Kasan), on the Volga River.
		Tepter (300,000) is reported to be between the Tatar and Bashkir languages.
		Uralic Tatar (110,000) is spoken by the Kerashen Tatar.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=tat (251 words)

	Agnès Kefeli's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tatars played an important role in the national awakening of the Islamic peoples in Russia both before and after the 1917 revolutions; today Tatarstan enjoys a unique position in the Russian Federation as the only internal republic officially recognized as "sovereign."
		Tatar is also linguistically close to other Turkic languages.
		ASU has recently concluded an agreement with Kazan State University, the center of Tatar culture, which will allow ASU students to study Tatar in Kazan, Tatarstan, for a semester or academic year.
	www.public.asu.edu /~akefeli (333 words)

	Tatar Culture
		This site is devoted to Tatar (Tartar) national culture and includes a collection of Tatar painting, collection of photos, examples of Tatar craft, Tatar book store and Tatar national music store.
		Our whole idea is to help Tatar communities abroad, who are missing their's homeland and national culture.
		We are trying to show you all aspects of modern life of Tatar people in Tatarstan.
	tatar-art.itgo.com (287 words)

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