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unusual facts about Tatar



Anthony Jenkinson

His party continued their journey south-east after traveling across the Caspian Sea to Serachik (Serakhs), where they joined a merchant caravan and traveled for several months across the Tatar lands of the Nogai Horde.

Arbat Street

Some local historians explain this with reference to the frequent attacks of the Crimean Khanate on Moscow in the 15th and 16th centuries, linked with the fact that a large number of Arabic loan words had entered the Turkic languages, including Tatar by this point.

Arslanbob

The town of Arslanbob has around 1500 inhabitants; most of the population are Kyrgyz and Uzbek, and less than 1% is Russian, Tatar, Tajik, or Chechen.

Bible translations into the languages of Russia

Nikolay Ilminsky, a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary, was the first who greatly promoted translations of the Bible into the minority languages of the Russian Empire including the Tatar dialect of the Christianized Tatars, called the Kryashens.

Bogdan III the One-Eyed

In the same year, Moldavia suffered two major Tatar devastations (they are alleged to have carried away 74,000 as slaves) — in 1511, the Tatars even managed to occupy most of the country.

Chak Chak

Çäkçäk, a sweet dessert of Tatar, made of honey and pastry

Chulpan Khamatova

Her name, Chulpan, means "morning star" (i.e. Venus) in Tatar.

Chuvashia

On May 15, 1917, the Chuvash joined the Idel-Ural Movement and in December 1917 joined the short-lived Idel-Ural State, when an agreement was reached with Tatar representatives to draw the eastern border of Chuvashia at the Sviyaga River.

Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria

Informants cite the following unique Tatar holidays: Nawrez, the Tatar first day of spring and, in the past, New Year; Tepres, the Tatar St. Sophia’s Day and, in some villages, St. George’s Day; and Qidirlez, the Tatar St George’s Day.

Daniil Kholmsky

However, since the Tatar assaults on Russian borders continued, the Muscovite army started a campaign against Kazan.

Don't Hold Others Back

The music for the advertisement, an evocative Stalinist mood-piece entitled No(t) Home, was written especially for the video by Russian born, Tasmanian based singer Zulya Kamalova, a leading proponent of Tatar music in Australia.

Finnish Tatars

One notable Finnish Tatar is the former soccer player Atik Ismail.

Gönül Pultar

Being the granddaughter of Sadri Maksudi (1878-1957), the leader of the short-lived "Turko-Tatar national-cultural autonomy" established right after the 1917 Revolution in Russia, she has found herself immersed in the life and culture of the autonomous republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan (within the Russian Federation) after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Haji Alakbar Mosque

The Haji Alakbar mosque was constructed in 1890 by renowned architect of the time Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi who also built Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque and Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha, Agdam Mosque in Agdam, mosques in Horadiz and Qocahmadli villages, Tatar mosque in Odessa, Ukraine and Qababaghlilar Mosque in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

History of Tatarstan

From the 1930s through the 1950s, Tatar-language press, cultural institutions, theatres, national schools and institutes gradually disappeared, as education was required to be conducted in the Russian language.

House of Jabłonowski

The family rose to prominence in the 17th century with Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, a successful military leader in such campaigns as that against the Swedes during The Deluge, Chocim, the 1683 Battle of Vienna and the 1695 battle against the Tatars at Lwów.

James Baillie Fraser

He also wrote An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia (1834); A Winter's Journey ((Tâtar,) from Constantinople to Teheran (1838); Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc. (1840) Mesopotamia and Assyria (1842); and Military Memoirs of Col. James Skinner (1851).

Kadino, Smolensk Oblast

The name of the village originates from the time of Tatar-Mongolian sovereignty ("kadi" is Tatar for "judge").

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

Unlike his father, who pursued a Western political course, Lev worked closely with the Mongols, in particular cultivating a close alliance with the Tatar Khan Nogai.

Kuchum

--1586?-->, the tsar decreed that the dynasties of the ruler of Imeretia in the Caucasus along with the Tatar princes of Siberia and Kasimov were to be into the Genealogical Book of the Russian nobility.

L'étoile du nord

The troops are then joined by a regiment of grenadiers from Tobolsk, to the music of a different march, followed by a regiment of Tatar cavalry to the music of a third march.

Le Fils de Gascogne

Harvey, a timid provincial young mans, accommodate a troop of Georgian choristers accompanied by Dinara, their interpreter (a quarter Russian: “my father is Tatar, my mother is half Russian, half Jewish”), and acts as their guide in Paris.

Lipka Tatars

As a reaction to restrictions on their religious freedoms and the erosion of their ancient rights and privileges, the Lipka Tatar regiments stationed in the Podolia region of south-east Poland abandoned the Commonwealth at the start of the late 17th century Polish–Ottoman Wars that were to last to end of the 17th century with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

Charles Bronson - Polish-Lithuanian American actor whose father was a Lipka Tatar, born in Druskininkai (Druskienik)

Majit Gafuri

Gafuri was born to a Tatar-speaking teacher family, in the village of Zilim-Karanovo (now Gafuriysky District, Bashkortostan).

Mehmet Niyazi

Niyazi was appointed a teacher at the local Tatar school in 1906, lecturing in Ottoman History, Ottoman Language, Poetry and Prose, Persian Literature, and Kalam.

Meñli I Giray

He proclaimed himself Khagan (Emperor), claiming legitimacy as the successor of the Golden Horde's authority over the Tatar khaganates in the Caspian-Volga region.

Mihail Kogălniceanu, Constanța

In 1651, the place was mentioned by the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi as a Tatar settlement named Kara Murat ("Black Murat", after its founder).

Mihály Mikes

In 1658, Mikes unsuccessfully defended the line of Buzău River against the Ottoman-Tatar-Moldavian-Wallachian united army.

Nurlatsky District

Nurlatsky District, Tatar ASSR (1927–1963), a district of the Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Pacanów

In 1502, during a Tatar raid, in which the invaders crossed the Vistula, Pacanów was successfully defended.

Qolşärif Mosque

Tatar scholars speculate as to whether some elements of Qolşärif Mosque can be seen in Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow (8 minarets, a central cupola, not typical for Russian architecture).

Rogerius

Rogerius of Apulia, in Italian Ruggero di Puglia, a thirteenth-century churchman who described the Tatar invasions in his work Carmen Miserabile

Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov

Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov was born November 26, 1900 in the town of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky located on Sakhalin Island near the Tatar Strait on the western shores of Northern Sakhalin at the foot of the Western Sakhalin Mountains.

Serhii Vasylkivsky

Vasylkivsky created three large panels for the Poltava Zemstvo (Provincial Land Administration) building which was designed by the Ukrainian architect Vasyl Krychevsky: The Chumak Road to Romodan, Election of Pushkar, The Duel of Cossack Holota with a Tatar.

Stateless society

Nevertheless, there are exceptions: Lawrence Krader for example describes the case of the Tatar state, a political authority arising among confederations of clans of nomadic or semi-nomadic herdsmen.

Tatar Khan

Tatar Khan was the Governor of Sonargaon during 1259-1268 CE.

Yenikeyev

It traces its origins to a famous Tatar general Murza Yenikey Tenishevich Kougushev, who lived in the mid-16th century in Kazan, and was also a warlord in 1668 in Temnikov.


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