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Bashkirs

Two Bashkirs horsemen
Ethnic group
GroupThe Bashkirs
Башҡорттар, Başqorttar
Populationapprox. 2 million
Russia1673389
Kazakhstan17263
Ukraine4253
Uzbekistan3707
Kyrgyzstan1111
Tajikistan~900
Belarus607
Latvia267
Estonia152
Lithuania136

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The Bashkirs ( ) are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan extending on both parts of the Ural mountains, on the place where Europe meets Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries. They speak the Kypchak-based Bashkir language. The Bashkirs are Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab.


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