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Tatars
*Tatarlar* / Татарлар
Total population
Ayaz Iskhaki • Ruslan Chagaev Şihabetdin Märcani • Pyotr Gavrilov Gabdulkhay Akhatov • Dinara Safina • Diniyar Bilyaletdinov • Ğabdulla Tuqay
ca. 6.8 million
Regions with significant populations
Russia : Tatarstan 2,012,571 Bashkortostan 1,009,295 Moscow 149,043	5,310,649
Uzbekistan	467,829
Kazakhstan	203,371
Ukraine	73,304
Turkmenistan	36,355
Kyrgyzstan	31,500
Tajikistan	19,000
China	5,064
Languages
Tatar, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam majority, Russian Orthodox minority

Tatars refer to a number of Turkic-speaking peoples, which include (but are not limited to) the Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars. But do not include the Crimean Tatars. Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in countries as Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

Smaller minorities of Tatars live in Israel, France, Canada, Australia, the United States, Finland, and Japan.

The Tatars mostly practice Sunni Islam.

Their closest relatives are the Bashkirs, and they are also related to the Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Chuvash people, and the Turkish people.

History

Historically, the word "Tatar" might have referred to the Tatar confederation, which eventually became part of the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan joined the various Eurasian steppe tribes into one empire. The term "Tatars" was spelled as "Tartars" on occasion. In the past, this term was used to refer to anyone coming from North and Central Asia dominated by many predominantly Turco-Mongol empires and kingdoms. Neighbouring non-Turkic peoples called any Turkic-speaking people Tatar. Nowadays, this term is used to refer to certain Turkic peoples.

Russian historian D. Iskhakov wrote in 2000: “the real history of Tatars, of the people in every respect historical, is not written yet”. However, a book by independent Tatar historian Galy Yenikeyev about the unwritten history of the Tatars claims to have new facts.

Images for kids

The areas of settlement of Tatars in Russia according to the National Population Census 2010
Khan's Palace in Bağçasaray.
Abandoned houses in Qarasuvbazar.
wedish King Charles X Gustav in a skirmish with Tatars near Warsaw during the Second Northern War of 1655–1660.
Lithuanian Tartars of the Imperial Guard at the charge, by Richard Knötel
Tatar cavalry training in their sarai.
Tartary flag
Tatars in Kazan, 1871
Mintimer Shaimiyev (left), the president of the republic of Tatarstan, in the Qolşärif Mosque, Kazan, with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (right)
Siberian Tatars
Tatar elder and his horse.
Tatar woman
Tatar woman
Tatar woman
Tatars
Lithuanian Tatars of Napoleonic army
Daghestani Tatar elder
Tatar family
Tatar family in 1843
Siberian Tatars
Tatar child ca. 19th century
Tatars' raid on Moscow
Recovery of Tatar captives.
Tatar costumes.
Tatar horsemen
Tatars in the vanguard of the Ottoman army
Kazan Tatars 1862

Tatars facts for kids

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