Kumyks (Kumyk: къумукълар qumuqlar Russian: кумыки) are a Turkic people living in the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea. They comprise […]
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Balkars
The Balkars (Karachay-Balkar: таулу – tawlu mountaineer аланла – alanla) are a Turkic ethnic group in the Caucasus region one of the titular populations of Kabardino-Balkaria. Their Karachay-Balkar language is […]
Karachays
The Karachays (Karachay-Balkar: къарачайлыла also алан – alan pl. аланла – alanla) are a Turkic speaking people of the North Caucasus region mostly situated in the Russian Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
Chuvash people
The Chuvash people (Chuvash: Чăваш; Russian: Чуваши) are a Turkic ethnic group native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia. Most of them live in Republic of […]
Tuvans
The Tuvans or Tuvinians (Tuvan: Тывалар Tyvalar; Mongolian: Tuva Uriankhai) are a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia. They are historically known as one of the Uriankhai from the […]
Yakuts
Yakuts (Sakha: Саха Sakha) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.The Yakut or Sakha language belongs to the Northern branch of the Turkic family of languages. […]
Komi peoples
The Komi or Zyrian people is an ethnic group whose homeland is in the north-east of European Russia around the basins of the Vychegda Pechora and Kama rivers. They mostly […]
Meskhetian Turks
Meskhetian Turks also known as Meskheti Turks and Akhaltsikhe / Ahiska Turks (Turkish: Ahıska Türkleri; Georgian: თურქი მესხები t’urk’i meskhebi) are the ethnic Turks formerly inhabiting the Meskheti region of […]
Kabarday
Kabarda or Kabard (Adyghe: Къэбэртайхэр-адыгэ or Qăbărtajxăr-adǝgă; Arabic: القبرطاي أو القبردي); are terms referring to a people of the northern Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term Kabardin (or […]
Okie
An Okie is a resident or native of Oklahoma. Like most terms that disparage specific groups it was applied by the dominant cultural group. It is derived from the name […]