The Tatar world
The wider story of the Tatar peoples and their kindred communities — the Estonian Tatars' relatives near and far.
Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatars are the indigenous people of the Crimean peninsula, whose fate has been especially tragic. They are closely related to other Turkic peoples of Kipchak origin.
Read →Tatarstan today
The Republic of Tatarstan is the homeland of the Volga Tatars within the Russian Federation, with Kazan as its capital and the heart of Tatar culture. The story of Tatarstan today…
Read →The Cumans of Hungary (kunok)
The Cumans of Hungary (Hungarian kunok, singular kun) are the westernmost branch of the Kipchak-Cuman tribes — descendants of the same steppe people whose language the Codex Cumani…
Read →The Finnish Tatars
The Finnish Tatars are Finland's oldest Muslim community — Mišär Tatars who migrated to Finland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from the villages of the Sergach country i…
Read →The Kryashens: Christianized Tatars
The Kryashens (Keräşen in Tatar) are a subgroup of the Volga Tatars who are Orthodox Christians. They regard themselves as distinct from other Tatars, although their dialect differ…
Read →The Lipka Tatars
The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic minority in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. They descend from the Kipchaks of the Golden Horde and the Crimean and Kazan Khanates, and settled in the G…
Read →The Uyghurs today
The Uyghurs today are a Turkic-speaking, Sunni Muslim people whose homeland is East Turkestan — the region China calls the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. They number about 11–1…
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