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The Buzava or Buzava Kalmyks are the ethnic Kalmyks, Kalmyk people centered in the western Kalmykia, Republic of Kalmykia, in the present day Southern Federal District of Russia. In 1699 group of the Dörbet (Choros clan), Dörbets of Oirats, Oirat, a Choros clan within the Oirats, Oirat tribe, migrated from the Buddhist Kalmyk people in the Volga River area to join the Don Cossacks people. They eventually became called the Buzava Kalmyks. They resettled with the Don Cossacks along the middle and lower Don River (Russia), Don River in Kalmykia. Sources

* Wixman. ''The Peoples of the USSR''. p. 34 {{Mongol ethnic groups, state=expanded Ethnic groups in Russia Kalmyk people Oirats Kalmykia ...
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Kalmyk People
The Kalmyks ( Kalmyk: Хальмгуд, ''Xaľmgud'', Mongolian: Халимагууд, ''Halimaguud''; russian: Калмыки, translit=Kalmyki, archaically anglicised as ''Calmucks'') are a Mongolic ethnic group living mainly in Russia, whose ancestors migrated from Dzungaria. They created the Kalmyk Khanate from 1635 to 1779 in Russia's North Caucasus territory. Today they form a majority in Kalmykia, located in the Kalmyk Steppe, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. They are the only traditionally Buddhist people whose homeland is located within Europe. Through emigration, small Kalmyk communities have been established in the United States, France, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Origins and history Early history of the Oirats The Kalmyk are a branch of the Oirat Mongols, whose ancient grazing-lands spanned present-day parts of Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia and China. After the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty of China in 1368, the Oirats emerged as a formidab ...
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