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Tatarstan

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Tatarstan

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Tatarstan - History

The main article is History of Tatarstan Tatarstan - Middle Ages. The earliest known organized state within the boundaries of Tatarstan was Volga Bulgaria (c. 700-1238 CE). The Volga Bulgars had an advanced mercantile state with trade contacts throughout Inner Eurasia, the Middle East and the Baltic, which maintained its independence despite pressure by such nations as the Khazars, the Kievan Rus and the Kipchaks. Islam was introduced by missionaries from Baghdad around the ...

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Tatarstan, Tatarstan - Terminology, Tatarstan - Geography, Tatarstan - Time zone, Tatarstan - Rivers, Tatarstan - Lakes, Tatarstan - Natural resources, Tatarstan - Climate, Tatarstan - Administrative divisions, Tatarstan - Demographics, Tatarstan - History, Tatarstan - Middle Ages, Tatarstan - Modern times, Tatarstan - Tatarstan today, Tatarstan - Politics, Tatarstan - Political status, Tatarstan - Economy, Tatarstan - Culture, Tatarstan - Education, Tatarstan - Religion, Tatarstan - Miscellaneous

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Volga Tatars - Kazan Qazan Tatars

The majority of Volga Tatars are Kazan (Qazan) Tatars. They are the main and indigenious population of Tatarstan. During the 11-16th centuries, most Turkic tribes lived in what is now Russia and Kazakhstan. The Kazan (Qazan) Tatars are descendants of the Volga Bulgars, who settled on the Volga in the 8th century. There they mingled with Scythian and Finno-Ugric speaking peoples and partly with descendants of the Kipchaks, who settled on the Volga in the 13th century. After the Mongol invasion Bulgaria was defeated and ruined. Note tha ...

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Volga Tatars, Volga Tatars - Kazan Qazan Tatars, Volga Tatars - Noqrat Tatars, Volga Tatars - Perm Tatars, Volga Tatars - Keräşen Tatars, Volga Tatars - Nağaybäks, Volga Tatars - Tiptär Tatars, Volga Tatars - Kazan Tatar language dialects, Volga Tatars - Mişär Tatars, Volga Tatars - Qasím Tatars, Volga Tatars - Astrakhan Tatars, Volga Tatars - Volga Tatars in the world

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Camp Delta

Camp Delta, Echo, X-Ray, and Iguana are prisons at Guantanamo Bay. As of July 22, 2005 there are "about 510 prisoners at Guantánamo." [1] Camp Delta - Camp Delta. Camp Delta (composed of detention camps: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Camp Echo) is located in the U.S. naval base that stands on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. It is a permanent 612-unit detention center. Construction of the camp began on February 27, 2002 with workers from Kellog, Brown and Root, Navy Seabees and Marine Engineers. It finished approximately ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Tatars - European Tatars

The discrimination of the separate stems included under the name is still far from complete. The following subdivisions, however, may be regarded as established: Tatars - Tatarlar or Татарлар. In modern English only Tatar is used to refer to Eurasian Tatars; Tartar has an offensive connotation, corrupted from Tatar from associations with the Tartarus of Greek mythology. In Europe the term Tartar is generally only used in the historical context for Mongolian people who appeared in the 13th century (the Mongol invasion) and assimilated into the local population later. See also:

Tatars, Tatars - European Tatars, Tatars - Volga Tatars, Tatars - Tatars of Crimea Ukraine and Poland, Tatars - Caucasian Tatars, Tatars - Nogais on the Kuma, Tatars - Karachays, Tatars - Mountain Tatars, Tatars - Siberian Tatars, Tatars - Baraba Tatars, Tatars - Cholym Tatars, Tatars - Abakan Tatars, Tatars - Northern Altai Tatars, Tatars - Altaians, Tatars - Generic meaning, Tatars - Authorities, Tatars - Chinese Tatars

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Khanate of Kazan - History

During the reign of Olug Moxammat and his son Maxmud, Kazan forces occupied Muscovy and its subject lands several times. The Grand Duke of Moscow Vassily II was defeated in a battle near the Suzdal, and was forced to pay tribute to the Kazan khan. In July 1487, Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow occupied Kazan and seated a puppet leader, Möxämmädämin, to the Kazan throne. The Kazan Khanate subsequently became a Moscow protectorate. As Russian influence grew stronger, Russian nobles and merchants received more advantageous conditions th ...

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Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Kazan - Khanate's geography and population, Khanate of Kazan - Economics, Khanate of Kazan - Society, Khanate of Kazan - Culture, Khanate of Kazan - Administrative division, Khanate of Kazan - Military forces, Khanate of Kazan - History

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Bulgars

Bulgars (also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians) - a people of Central Asia, originally Pamirian or Turkic, whose branches became Slavicized and Turkic over time. The Turkic etymology most often given for their name is Bulgha meaning sable and is of totemistic origin. Bulgars - History. Bulgars - Migration to Europe. In the 2nd century AD, some groups of Bulgars migrated to the European continent and settled on the plains between the Caspian and the Black S ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Ahmad ibn-al-'Abbas ibn Rashid ibn-Hammad ibn-Fadlan (Ahmad bin al-Abbās bin Rashîd bin Hammād binn Fadlān أحمد ابن العباس ابن رشيد ابن حماد ابن فضلان) was an Arab writer and traveler who wrote an account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars (Kitāb ilá malik aṣ-Ṣaqālibah كتاب إلى ملك الصقالبة). Ahmad ibn Fadlan - Manuscript Tradition. For a long time, only an incomplete versio ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Khanate of Kazan - Society

The state was governed by the khan. His action was based on the cabinet council Diwan's decisions and advisements. The nobility included bäk (beg), ämir (emir), and the morza (murza). Military estates consisted of the uğlan (ulan), bahadir, içki (ichki). Muslim clergy also played a major role. They were divided into säyet (seid), şäyex (sheikh), qazí (qazi), and imams. The ulema or clergy played a judicial role, and maintained the madrassas and maktabs (schools). The majority of the population were qara xalıq (black ...

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Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Kazan - Khanate's geography and population, Khanate of Kazan - Economics, Khanate of Kazan - Society, Khanate of Kazan - Culture, Khanate of Kazan - Administrative division, Khanate of Kazan - Military forces, Khanate of Kazan - History

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Bashkir language

The Bashkir language is a Turkic language. Bashkir language - Speakers. The 1989 population census showed over 1,047,000 native speakers of the Bashkir language living in the USSR. Additional 26,737 claimed Bashkir to be their secondary language. Approximately 300,000 Bashkirs said that Tatar was their native language. Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, as well as in neighboring Tatarstan and Udmurtia. Substantial number of the speakers also ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; listen ▶ (help·info)) (born February 1, 1931) was President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. Boris Yeltsin - Early life. Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsa district, Sverdlovsk region. His father, Nikolai Yeltsin, was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation in 1934 and served in a gulag for three years. After his release he r ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to contest this title. In addition, there is a separate event for women only, for the title of "Woman's World Champion", and separate competitions and titles for juniors, seniors and computers. However, these days the strongest competitors in the junior, senior, and women's categories often forego these niche title events in order to pursue top level competition, although they continue to be part of chess tra ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Udmurt people

The Udmurts are a people who speak the Udmurt language. Through history they have been known in Russian as Chud Otyatskaya (чудь отяцкая), Otyaks, or Votyaks (most known name), and in Tatar as Ar. Most Udmurt people live in Udmurtia. Small groups live in the neighboring areas: Kirov Oblast and Perm Krai of Russia, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and Mari El. ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them. UNPO provides a legitimate and established international forum for member aspi ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Chuvash people

  Turkic     Bolgar The Chuvash (Chuvashian: чӑвашсем,Russian: чуваши, Tatar: Çuaşlar\Чуашлар) are a Turkic people usually associated with Chuvashia. According to the Sovietcensus of 1989,the Chuvash population numbered 1,843,300 ; 907,000 of these lived in Chuvashia. The remainder lived in Tatarstan's Aqsubay, Bua, Nurlat, Täteş, Çirmeşän, Çüpräle rayons, Bashkortostan, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Tyumen, Kemerovo, Orenburg, Moscow oblasts of Russia ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is a historic state that existed between the 7th and 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in what is now the Russian Federation. Today, Republics of Tatarstan and Chuvashia are considered to be descendants of Volga Bulgaria in terms of territory and ethnicity. Volga Bulgaria - Origin. First-hand information on Volga Bulgaria is rather sparse. As no authentic Bulgar records have survived, most of our information comes from contemporary ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Pakistan

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان, islāmī jamhūriya i pākistān), or Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان, pākistān) is a country located in South Asia that overlaps onto the Greater Middle East and Central Asia. The country borders Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, China, India and the Arabian Sea. The name of the country "Pakistan" in Urdu and Persian means Land of the Pure. With around 163 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country with the secon ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia - Multilingualism

The term multilingualism can refer to rather different phenomena. Sociolinguists distinguish: multilingualism at the personal level multilingualism at the societal level multilingualism at the interaction level Multilingualism - Multilingualism at the personal level. A multilingual person is, in the broadest definition of multilingualism, anyone with communicative skills in more than one language, be it active or passive. More specifically, the terms bilingual ...

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Khanate of Kazan - Military forces

The military of the khanate consisted of armament and men from the darughas and subject lands, khan guards, and the troops of the nobility. The number of soldiers was never constant, ranging from 20,000 to 60,000 in number. Often, troops from Nogay, the Crimean and Russia also served for the Kazan khans. Fire-arms (arquebuse) were used for defending the walls of Kazan. ...

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Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Kazan - Khanate's geography and population, Khanate of Kazan - Economics, Khanate of Kazan - Society, Khanate of Kazan - Culture, Khanate of Kazan - Administrative division, Khanate of Kazan - Military forces, Khanate of Kazan - History

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Tatars - Chinese Tatars

The Tatars (塔塔尔族) form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Chinese Tatar's ancestors are Volga Tatar tradesmen who settled mostly in Xinjiang. Note that the Chinese had often used the term Tartars or Tazi/Dazi in Chinese in a derogatory manner to generalize non-Han groups from the North, such as the Mongols and Jurchens/Manchus especially during periods where China was invaded by these groups, for example during the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Chinese ethnic grou ...

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Tatars, Tatars - European Tatars, Tatars - Volga Tatars, Tatars - Tatars of Crimea Ukraine and Poland, Tatars - Caucasian Tatars, Tatars - Nogais on the Kuma, Tatars - Karachays, Tatars - Mountain Tatars, Tatars - Siberian Tatars, Tatars - Baraba Tatars, Tatars - Cholym Tatars, Tatars - Abakan Tatars, Tatars - Northern Altai Tatars, Tatars - Altaians, Tatars - Generic meaning, Tatars - Authorities, Tatars - Chinese Tatars

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Tatarstan: Encyclopedia II - Volga Tatars - Mişär Tatars

(or Mishers) Mişär Tatars are a group of Tatars speaking a dialect of the Kazan Tatar language. They are descendants of Kipchaks in the Middle Oka and Meschiora where they mixed with the local Finno-Ugric tribes and Russians. Nowadays they live in Tambov, Penza, Ryazan oblasts of Russia and in Mordovia. ...

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Volga Tatars, Volga Tatars - Kazan Qazan Tatars, Volga Tatars - Noqrat Tatars, Volga Tatars - Perm Tatars, Volga Tatars - Keräşen Tatars, Volga Tatars - Nağaybäks, Volga Tatars - Tiptär Tatars, Volga Tatars - Kazan Tatar language dialects, Volga Tatars - Mişär Tatars, Volga Tatars - Qasím Tatars, Volga Tatars - Astrakhan Tatars, Volga Tatars - Volga Tatars in the world

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