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Ymär Daher
Ymär Daher (né ''Tahiroff -'' , Mishar Dialect: "Ümär", Literary Tatar: Гомәр Таһиров, ''Ğomər Tahir''; 5 November 1910 – 10 July 1999) was a Tatar cultural worker, researcher, public servant, teacher and docent of turkology, doctor of philosophy and a vice judge. He moved to Finland in early 1900s. As a researcher, Daher took part in many different altaistic and turkologic conferences around the world. He had versatile language skills and cultural knowledge and due to this worked for example with president Urho Kekkonen. Daher was an important figure in forming relations between Finnish Tatars and Russian Tatars during Soviet times. He was honored by the president of Tatarstan in 1998. Other accolades include one by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Early life and career Daher (Tahiroff) was born in 1910, in a Nizhny Novgorod Governorate village named Kuysu. (Russian: Овечий Овраг, Ovechiy Ovrag). He came to Finland with his siblings in 1922. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergachsky Uyezd
Sergachsky Uyezd (''Сергачский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Sergach. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Sergachsky Uyezd had a population of 159,117. Of these, 73.8% spoke Russian, 17.1% Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ... and 8.9% Mordvin as their native language. References Uezds of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Nizhny Novgorod Governorate {{Russia-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armas Salonen
Armas Immanuel Salonen (17 January 1915 – 22 October 1981) was a Finnish Assyriologist. Salonen graduated from high school in 1933. He studied at the University of Helsinki under professor Knut Tallqvist. Having obtained his bachelor's degree in 1936, he continued his studies in Germany and later on in the US, where he joined the University of Chicago Oriental Institute, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1947. There he participated in the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project under professor A. Leo Oppenheim, focusing on etymological references. Salonen received his PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1978 he held the position of associate professor of Assyrian and Semitic Philology at the University of Helsinki. His research interests focused on the material culture and everyday life of Mesopotamia, such as its watercraft, vehicles and doors; a large part of his work consists of thematic glossaries of specialized terminology. He published the first Finnish translation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatarstan
Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city is Kazan, an important cultural centre in Russia. The region's main source of wealth is Petroleum, oil with a strong Petrochemical industry, petrochemical industry. The republic borders the Oblasts of Russia, oblasts of Kirov Oblast, Kirov, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Ulyanovsk, Samara Oblast, Samara and Orenburg Oblast, Orenburg, as well as the republics of Mari El, Udmurtia, Chuvashia and Bashkortostan. The area of the republic is , occupying 0.4% of the total surface of the country. As of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, the population of Tatarstan was 4,004,809. Tatarstan has strong cultural, linguistic and ethnic ties with its eastern neighbour, Bashkortostan, which is also a republic of Russia. The official languages of the republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (, born 24 December 1943) is a Finns, Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and as the Prime Minister of Finland, Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party of Finland, Social Democratic Party Eduskunta, member of parliament from 1979 Finnish parliamentary election, 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000 Finnish presidential election, 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990, as Minister of Justice (Finland), Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland), Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000. Halonen was an extremely popular presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okan Daher
Okan may refer to: * Okan (Go competition), a Japanese Go competition * Okan University, private university in Istanbul, Turkey * Okanagan Valley Railway (reporting mark: OKAN) * Okan (band), Canadian world music group Given name * Okan Alkan, Turkish footballer * Okan Aydın, Turkish-German footballer * Okan Buruk, Turkish football manager * Okan Bayülgen, Turkish actor * Okan Deniz (born 1994), Turkish footballer * Okan Derici, Turkish footballer * Okan Ersoy, American scientist * Okan Koç, Turkish footballer * Okan Özçelik, Turkish footballer * Okan Öztürk, Turkish footballer * Okan Patirer, Turkish actor * Okan Yılmaz, Turkish footballer Middle name * Tekin Okan Düzgün (born 1988), Turkish paralympic goalball player Surname * Tanju Okan (1938–1996), Turkish singer See also *Okun (other) Okun may refer to: People * Arthur Melvin Okun (1928–1980), American economist * Brackish Okun, fictional character in the 1996 film ''Independence Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staff Sergeant
Staff sergeant is a Military rank, rank of non-commissioned officer used in the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. History of title In origin, certain senior sergeants were assigned to administrative, supervisory, or other specialist duties as part of the staff of a British Army Regimental system#British Army, regiment. As such they held seniority over sergeants who were members of a battalion or Company (military unit), company, and were paid correspondingly increased wages. Their seniority was indicated by a crown worn above the three sergeant's stripes on their uniform rank markings. National variations Australia In the Australian Army and Australian Army Cadets, Cadets, the rank of staff sergeant is being phased out. It was usually held by the company quartermaster sergeant or the holders of other administrative roles. Staff sergeants are always addressed as "Staff Sergeant" or "Staff", never as "Sergeant", as it degrades the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter War
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from its organization. The Soviets made several demands, including that Finland cede substantial border territories in exchange for land elsewhere, claiming security reasonsprimarily the protection of Leningrad, from the Finnish border. When Finland refused, the Soviets invaded. Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland, and cite the establishment of the Finnish Democratic Republic, puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisa Hakimcan
Aisa Hakimcan /ɑjˈsɑ hɑkimˈd͡ʒan/ (, ; 13 March 1896 – 5 November 1972) was a Volga Tatars, Tatar artist and publisher among the Finnish Tatars, Tatar community of Tampere, Finland. He was known as a nationalistic cultural figure, who directed plays and wrote poetry and met with Idel-Ural State, Idel-Ural politicians Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Sadri Maksudi and Ayaz İshaki. In 1970 he took part in a conference for the 50th anniversary of Tatarstan in Kazan. His son Räshid Hakimsan (Reşid Hakimcan; 1934–1997) was a hockey player and referee. Biography Born as the son of Khakimzhan Mukhametaminov and Maryam Alyautdinova in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Mishar Tatars, Mishar village ''Aktuk'', Aisa Hakimcan (Aisya Khakimzhanov) came to Finland in 1917. Like most other Volga Tatars, Tatars of his generation, Hakimcan made a living as a merchant, but among the Tatar community of Tampere, he was best known as a tough leader and a versatile artist. Hakimcan was involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ğabdulla Tuqay
Ğabdulla Möxəmmətğərif ulı Tuqay () was a Volga Tatars, Volga Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature. Tuqay is often referred to as the founder of modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary language, which replaced Old Tatar. Early life Ğabdulla Tuqay (Tuqayev) was born in the family of the hereditary village mullah of Quşlawıç, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (current Tatarstan, Russia) near the modern town of Arsk. His father, Möxəmmətğərif Möxəmmətğəlim ulı Tuqayev, had been a village ''mandative mullah'' since 1864. In 1885 his wife died, leaving him a son and a daughter, and Möxəmmətğarif married second wife, Məmdüdə, daughter of Öçile village mullah Zinnətulla Zəynepbəşir ulı. On 29 August O.S. Möxəmmətğərif died when Ğabdulla was five months old. Soon Ğabdulla's grandfather also died and Məmdüdə was forced to return to her father and then to marry the mullah of the village of Sasna. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Finnish-Islamic Congregation . They arrived between the late 1800s and early 1900s as merchants from the Russian Empire. They were mainly Mishar Tatars, but some other Turkic peoples came as well, such as Bashkirs and Kazakhs. They blended in quickly because the first generation tended to identify themselves mostly through their religion (''möselman'').
After settling in the country, they shortly felt the ...
The Finnish-Islamic Congregation (, ) is an Islamic congregation which members are local Tatars. It was founded in 1925 and was the first Islamic congregation in Finland. The congregation has activity in Helsinki, Järvenpää, Kotka and Turku. History The first Muslim people in Finland were Tatars Tatars ( )Tatar in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
