Tatar culture
Tatar cultural heritage, customs and mythology — marked for what is general Tatar, what Kazan and what Mišär.
Famous Tatars
"Famous Tatars" gathers notable Tatar cultural figures — writers, artists and composers. The Tatar language-learning site learntatar.com (by Aygul Ahmetcan) maintains a "Famous Peo…
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Tatar cultural heritage covers the material and spiritual tradition of the Volga Tatars: sacred architecture and mosques, the construction and furnishing of the traditional village…
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Tatar mythology is a layered system of belief that overlays a pre-Islamic Tengrist and shamanist cosmology with later Islam. At its centre stand the supreme sky-god Tengri (Tatar T…
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Note. The customs and holidays described here (Sabantuy, Narduğan, Cıyın, etc.) are Volga Tatar traditions. They differ from the customs of the historical Estonian Tatars, which ar…
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