Volga Tatars

Not to be confused with Crimean Tatars.
Volga Tatars
татарлар
Kamil Səmiğullin, the Mufti of Tatarstan.
Total population
c. 6.5 million
Regions with significant populations
 Russia: 5,310,649[1]
 Uzbekistan467,829[2]
 Kazakhstan203,371[3]
 Ukraine73,304-400,000[4]
 Turkmenistan36,355[5]
 Kyrgyzstan28,334[6]
 Azerbaijan25,900[7]
 Turkey25,500[8]
 China5,000
 Lithuania4,000
 Estonia1,981[9]
 Finland600-700[10]
Languages
Tatar, Russian
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam[11][12] with Orthodox Christian[13] and irreligious minority
Related ethnic groups
Bashkirs, Chuvash, Nogais, Crimean Tatars[14][15]

The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized: tatary), and occasionally by the historical Turko-Tatars[16][17] (Төрки-татарлар, Törki-tatarlar[18][19]), are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of western Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. Most of them live in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Their native language is Tatar, a language of the Turkic language family. The predominant religion is Sunni Islam, followed by Orthodox Christianity.

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  7. ^ Demographics azstat.org
  8. ^ Joshua Project. "Tatar in Turkey". Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Population by ethnic nationality". Statistics Estonia. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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  13. ^ Yemelianova, Galina M. (2002). Russia and Islam: A Historical Survey. Palgrave. pp. 36–41. ISBN 0-333-68354-4.
  14. ^ Ахметзянов М. И. Татарские родословные (шеджере) / М. И. Ахметзянов – Казань: ИЯЛИ им. Г. Ибрагимова // Золотоордынское обозрение. 2015.
  15. ^ Исхаков Д. М. Юго-Восток Татарстана: проблема изучения этнической истории региона XTV-XVII вв. // Элмэт — Альметьевск. 2003.
  16. ^ "Turkistan". Britannica.
  17. ^ Dündar, Ali Merthan. "A Document on the Religious and Educational Activites of the Turko-Tatars of Far East: The Directory of Keijo (Seoul) Numani Mosque and School".
  18. ^ "Татар халкы тарихы һәм мәдәнияте: Урта гасырлар (фәнни популяр басма)" (PDF). 2014.
  19. ^ "Төрки-татарлар әлифбасының этаплары".