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Besermian
The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans or Besermens (russian: бесермяне, besermyane singular: besermyanin, udm, бесерманъёс, tt-Cyrl, бисермәннәр, translit=bisermännär) are a numerically small Finnic people in Russia. The Russian Empire Census of 1897 listed 10,800 Besermans. There were 10,000 Besermans in 1926, but the Russian Census of 2002 found only 3,122 of them. The Besermyan live in the districts of Yukamenskoye, Glazov, Balezino, and Yar in the northwest of Udmurtia. There are ten villages of pure Besermyan ethnicity in Russia, and 41 villages with a partial Besermyan population. History The Besermyan are of Turkic origin, and are likely the result of a group of Volga Tatars who were assimilated by the Udmurts. In the 13th century during his travel to Mongolia, papal envoy Plano Carpini claimed that the Besermyan were subjects of the Mongols. Russian chronicles sometimes made mention of the Besermyan but it's unclear whether the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udmurtia
Udmurtia (russian: Удму́ртия, r=Udmúrtiya, p=ʊˈdmurtʲɪjə; udm, Удмуртия, ''Udmurtija''), or the Udmurt Republic (russian: Удмуртская Республика, udm, Удмурт Республика, Удмурт Элькун, ''Udmurt Respublika'', ''Udmurt Eľkun''), is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) in Eastern Europe, within the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. Name The name ''Udmurt'' comes from ('meadow people'), where the first part represents the Permic root or ('meadow, glade, turf, greenery'). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts are referred to as ('meadow people'), alongside the traditional Russian name . The second part means 'person' (cf. Komi , Mari ). It is probably an early borrowing from a Scythian language: or ('person, man'; cf. Urdu ), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Indo-Aryan term ('man, mortal, one who is bound to die'. cf. Old Indic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glazovsky District
Glazovsky District (russian: Гла́зовский райо́н; udm, Глаз ёрос, ''Glaz joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #75-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Glazov (which is not administratively a part of the district).Law #46-RZ Population: 18,792 ( 2002 Census); Geography The Cheptsa River flows through the central parts of the district. Other significant rivers include the Pyzel, the Ubyt, the Sepych, and the Varyzh. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Glazovsky District is one of the twenty-five in the republic. The city of Glazov serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a city of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirin Akiner
Shirin Akiner (16 June 1943 – 6 April 2019) was a scholar of Central Asia and Belarus. She was a research associate at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Life Shirin Akiner was born in 1943 in Dacca, British India. She studied at London University, gaining her first degree in Slavonic philology, and Turkish language and literature (Ottoman and Modern). She gained her doctorate in 1980 from University College London as a researcher of the heritage of the Belarusian Lipka Tatars, with her dissertation titled "The religious vocabulary of the British Library Tatar-Byelorussian Kitab". Her first husband was killed in a car crash just before the birth of their son Metin. In 1973, she re-married.Arnold McMillin. Shirin Akiner (1942-2019) – in Memor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanate Of Kazan
The Khanate of Kazan ( tt, Казан ханлыгы, Kazan xanlıgı; russian: Казанское ханство, Kazanskoye khanstvo) was a medieval Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan. It was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde (Kipchak Khanate), and it came to an end when it was conquered by the Tsardom of Russia. Geography and population The territory of the khanate comprised the Muslim Bulgar-populated lands of the Bolğar, Cükätäw, Kazan, and Qaşan duchies and other regions that originally belonged to Volga Bulgaria. The Volga, Kama and Vyatka were the main rivers of the khanate, as well as the major trade ways. The majority of the population were Kazan Tatars. Their self-identity was not restricted to Tatars; many identified themselves simply a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga Bulgaria
Volga Bulgaria or Volga–Kama Bulgaria, was a historic Bulgar state that existed between the 7th and 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama River, in what is now European Russia. Volga Bulgaria was a multi-ethnic state with large numbers of Turkic Bulgars, a variety of Finnic and Ugric peoples, and many East Slavs. Its strategic position of allowed it to create a monopoly between the trade of Arabs, Norse and Avars. History Origin and creation of the state The Bulgars were Turkic tribes of Oghuric origin, who settled north of the Black Sea. During their westward migration across the Eurasian steppe, they came under the overlordship of the Khazars, leading other ethnic groups, including Finnic and Iranic peoples. In about 630 they founded Old Great Bulgaria, which was destroyed by the Khazars in 668. Kubrat's son and appointed heir, Batbayan Bezmer, moved from the Azov region in about AD 665, commanded by the Kazarig Khagan Kotrag, to whom he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatar Language
Tatar ( or ) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken by Volga Tatars, Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia. It should not be confused with Crimean Tatar language, Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar language, Siberian Tatar, which are closely related but belong to different subgroups of the Kipchak languages. Geographic distribution The Tatar language is spoken in Russia (about 5.3 million people), Ukraine, China, Finland, Turkey, Uzbekistan, the United States, United States of America, Romania, Azerbaijan, Israel, Kazakhstan, Georgia (country), Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and other countries. There are more than 7 million speakers of Tatar in the world. Tatar is also native for several thousand Mari people, Maris. Mordva's Qaratay group also speak a variant of Kazan Tatar. In the Russian Census (2010), 2010 census, 69% of Russian Tatars who responded to the question about language ability claimed a knowledge of the Tatar language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). As an example, the largest ethnic group in Germany is Germans. The ethnonym ''Germans'' is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language. Conversely, the Germans call themselves the , an endonym. The German people are identified by a variety of exonyms across Europe, such as (French language, French), (Italian language, Italian), (Swedish language, Swedish) and (Polish language, Polish). As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the study of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics. Ethnonyms should not be confused with demonyms, distinctive terms that designate all people related to a specific territory, regardless of any ethnic, religious, linguistic or some other distinctions that may exist within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpine
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, variously rendered in English as ''John of Pian de Carpine'', ''John of Plano Carpini'' or ''Joannes de Plano'' (c. 11851 August 1252), was a medieval Italian diplomat, archbishop and explorer and one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He is the author of the earliest important Western account of northern and Central Asia, Rus, and other regions of the Mongol dominion. He was the Primate of Serbia, based in Antivari, from 1247 to 1252. Life before the journey Giovanni appears to have been a native of Umbria, in central Italy. His surname was derived from Pian del Carpine (literally "Hornbeam Plain"), an area known later as Magione, between Perugia and Cortona. He was one of the companions and disciples of his near-contemporary and countryman Saint Francis of Assisi. Highly esteemed within the Franciscan order, Giovanni had a prominent role in the propagation of its teachings in northern Europe, holdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga Tatars
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars ( tt-Cyrl, татарлар, tatarlar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are Russia's second-largest ethnicity after the Russians. They compose 53% of the population of Tatarstan and 25% of the population of Bashkortostan. The Volga Tatars are by far the largest group amongst the Tatars. History Tatars inhabiting the Republic of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia, constitute one third of all Tatars, while the other two thirds reside outside Tatarstan. Some of the communities residing outside Tatarstan developed before the Russian Revolution of 1917, as Tatars were specialized in trading. During the 14th century, Sunni Islam was adopted by many of the Tatars. Tatars became subjects of Russia after the Siege of Kazan in 1552. Russians were using the Tatar ethnonym during the 18th and 19th centuries to denote all Turkic inhabitants of the Russian Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarsky District
Yarsky District (russian: Я́рский райо́н; udm, Яр ёрос, ''Jar joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #83-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Yar Yar, Yare or Yars may refer to: Geography * Yar, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia * Babi Yar, a ravine in Kyiv where mass murders took place during World War II * Eastern Yar, a river on the Isle of Wight, England * Western ....Law #46-RZ Population: 18,880 ( 2002 Census); The population of Yar accounts for 43.2% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Districts of Udmurtia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balezinsky District
Balezinsky District (russian: Балези́нский райо́н; udm, Балезино ёрос, ''Balezino joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #73-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Balezino.Law #46-RZ Population: 38,443 ( 2002 Census); The population of Balezino accounts for 46.6% of the district's total population. Geography Rivers flowing through the district include the Cheptsa, the Kep, the Lopya, the Kama, the Pyzep, the Lyuk, and others. History The district was created on July 15, 1929 by merging Balezinskaya and Yagoshurskaya Volosts of Glazovsky Uyezd. Demographics Ethnic composition (according to the 2002 Census): Udmurt people: 57.6%; Russians: 30.9%; Tatars The Tatars () [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukamensky District
Yukamensky District (russian: Юка́менский райо́н; udm, Юкаменск ёрос, ''Jukamensk joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #48-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ... (a '' selo'') of Yukamenskoye.Law #46-RZ Population: 11,947 ( 2002 Census); The population of Yukamenskoye accounts for 40.2% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Districts of Udmurtia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
