16 Facts About Tatars

1.

Tatars is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar".

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2.

Volga Tatars used the Turkic Old Tatar language for their literature between the 15th and 19th centuries.

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The Kazan Tatars speak Kazan tatar language, with a substantial amount of Russian and Arabic loanwords.

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4.

An ethnic nationalist movement among Kazan Tatars that stresses descent from the Bulgars is known as Bulgarism—graffiti have appeared on the walls in the streets of Kazan with phrases such as "Bulgaria is alive" .

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The Crimean Tatars mostly adopted Islam in the 14th century and thereafter Crimea became one of the centers of Islamic civilization in Eastern Europe.

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Tatars became the founder of the Giray dynasty, which ruled until the annexation of the Crimean Khanate by Russia in 1783.

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Since then, a powerful national movement of the Crimean Tatars, supported abroad and by Soviet dissidents, began, and in 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union was made to condemn the deportation of Crimean Tatars from their motherland as inhumane and lawless.

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8.

Some Crimean Tatars have lived in the territory of today's Romania and Bulgaria since the 13th century.

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9.

The Tatars first reached the mouths of the Danube in the mid-13th century at the height of the power of the Golden Horde.

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10.

The Ottomans additionally accorded a certain degree of autonomy for the Tatars who were allowed governance by their own kaymakam, Khan Mirza.

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Lipka Tatars are a group of Turkic-speaking Tatars who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.

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12.

The Tatars were allowed to intermarry with Christians, a practice uncommon in Europe at the time.

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13.

The Tatars had preserved their cultural identity and sustained a number of Tatar organisations, including Tatar archives and a museum in Vilnius.

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14.

Tatars suffered serious losses during World War II and furthermore, after the border change in 1945, a large part of them found themselves in the Soviet Union.

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15.

Tatars played a relatively prominent role for such a small community in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth military as well as in Polish and Lithuanian political and intellectual life.

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16.

Small community of Polish-speaking Tatars settled in Brooklyn, New York City, in the early-20th century.

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