Tatars

Tatars (Tatarlar / Татарлар)
Ruslan Chagaev • Dinara Safina Şihabetdin Märcani • Pyotr Gavrilov Gabdulkhay Akhatov • Sofia Gubaidulina • Diniyar Bilyaletdinov • Ğabdulla Tuqay
Total population
ca. 6.8 million
Regions with significant populations
Russia : Tatarstan 2,012,571 Bashkortostan 1,009,295 Moscow 149,043 ||align="right"| 5,554,601 ||style="padding-left:1em;"| Uzbekistan 467,829 Kazakhstan 203,371 Ukraine 73,304 Turkmenistan 36,355 Kyrgyzstan 31,500 [source?] Tajikistan 19,000 [source?] China 5,000 [source?]
Languages
Tatar, Russian
Religions
Sunni Islam majority, Russian Orthodox minority

Tatars are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group. Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in such countries as Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

History

Russian historian D. Iskhakov wrote in 2000:“the real history of Tatars, of the people in every respect historical, is not written yet”. However, a book by independent Tatar historian Galy Yenikeyev about the unwritten history of the Tatars [1] claims to have new facts.