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Definition: Tatars from Philip's Encyclopedia

(Tartars) Turkic-speaking people of central Asia. In medieval Europe, the name Tatar referred to many different Asiatic invaders. True Tatars originated in E Siberia, and converted to Islam in the 14th century. They divided into two groups: one in S Siberia, who came under Russian rule; the other in the Crimea, which was part of the Ottoman Empire until annexed by Russia in 1783.


Tatar

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of a Turkic people, the descendants of the mixed Mongol and Turkic followers of Genghis Khan . The Tatars now live mainly in the Russian autonomous republic of Tatarstan, western Siberia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (where they were deported from the Crimea in 1944). There are over 5 million speakers of the Tatar language, which belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family. Traditionally many were teachers, traders, Islamic missionaries, and artisans. Today Tatars farm, fish, and breed horses, although many are urbanized. They are mainly Sunni Muslims, although some have converted to the Orthodox Church and many retain practices from shamanism . Tatar demonstrations in Moscow 1987 demanded the restoration of the Crimea as an autonomous republic to which they could return. A special commission, established to look into the community's grievances, subsequently reported that such a move was not feasible because the Crimea had been repopulated by Russians and Ukrainians since…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(tä'tӘrz) or Tartars (tär'tӘrz), Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia, Crimea, and Uzbekistan. They number about 10 million and are largely Sunni Muslims; there is also a large population of Crimean Tatar descent in Turkey. The name is derived from Tata or Dada, a Mongolian tribe that…
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Full text Article Tatar

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of a Turkic people, the descendants of the mixed Mongol and Turkic followers of Genghis Khan . The Tatars now live mainly in the Russian autonomous republic of Tatarstan, western Siberia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (where they were deported from the Crimea in 1944). There are over 5 million…
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From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures Full text Article Europe
A Turkic nation (see TURKS ) centred on the Volga River area and the autonomous republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation, but also spread across the former USSR . Originally nomadic herders from northeast Mongolia, the Tatars were combined with the MONGOLS by Ghengis Khan in the 13th century…
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Full text Article Tatar cuisine

From The Oxford Companion to Food
is of particular interest because of the geographical location of Tatarstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union and now a semi-autonomous state within the Russian Federation. With its capital, Kazan, lying about 500 miles directly east of Moscow, it is the northernmost Muslim community. The Kazan…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Any member of the Turkic-speaking peoples who today live mainly in west-central Russia east to the Ural Mountains, in Kazakhstan, and in western Siberia. They first appeared as nomadic tribes in northeastern Mongolia in the 5th century. Some joined the armies of Genghis Khan . Especially identified…
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From The Chambers Dictionary
orig a member of any of certain Tungusic tribes in Chinese Tartary; extended to any of the Mongol, Turkish and other warriors who swept over Asia and Europe; loosely, one of the mixed inhabitants of Tartary, Siberia and the Russian steppes, incl Kazan Tartars, Crim Tartars, Kipchaks, Kalmucks, etc; …
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Full text Article Tatar language

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Turkic language with some eight million speakers. Its speakers include less than half the population of Tatarstan in Russia, with the remainder scattered in enclaves across eastern European Russian, Siberia, and the Central Asian republics. Tatar, like the closely related Bashkir language, is…
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The MONGOL -Turkic people who, between 1235 and 1241, created an extensive empire encompassing much of southern Russia, Poland, Hungary, Silesia and Siberia. The name ‘Golden Horde’ (Mongol, Altan Ordu) refers to both the people and the empire, and probably derives from a RUSSIAN reference to the…
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Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to trace social and political processes of Volga, or Kazan, Tatars – the largest ethnic minority in the Russian Federation and one of the largest stateless ethnonational groups of Europe and the world. In doing so, some of the major developments concerning…
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Full text Article Tatar or Tartar

From Collins English Dictionary
n 1 a a member of a Mongoloid people who under Genghis Khan established a vast and powerful state in central Asia from the 13th century until conquered by Russia in 1552 b a descendant of this people, now scattered throughout Russia but living chiefly in the Tatar Republic 2 any of…
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