The Arabic word for Tatars is تتار. Tatars themselves wrote their name as تاتار or طاطار. Tatar was also an endonym to a number of peoples of Siberia and Russian Far East, namely the Khakas people …

Mar 19, 2026 · Tatar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central …

Jul 11, 2019 · The Tartar people, also spelled as Tatar, are Turkic-speaking people that are mainly found in west-central Russia and other former Soviet Republics. Initially, the name “Tartars” was …

In many parts of Europe, the term Tatar (or Tartar) has historically been used to denote both the Mongols themselves and various Turkic peoples that are under Mongol rule, especially during the …

Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland.

The name Tatar is said to have first appeared around the beginning of the 5th century AD amongst the nomadic Turkic peoples of northeastern Mongolia in the region of Lake Baikal.

Jan 12, 2026 · Russian authorities have cracked down on freedom of expression and assembly, including demonstrations in Tatarstan advocating for sovereignty, education in the Tatar language …

Today Tatar is a common derogatory slang remark applied regardless of actual ethnicity in Russia. This choice may seem counter intuitive, but the history of persecution seems to have been woven into a …

Small Tatar communities are also scattered across Russia. A unique group of Tatars are the Krym (also called the Crimean Tatars), with a population of around 550,000.

Aug 3, 2018 · Although Tatar people are indigenous to many parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the most prominent group of Tatars in Russia are the Kazan Tatars of Tatarstan, a region still fiercely …