Now that almost half of the Crimean Tatars have returned from Central Asia, they are facing problems with employment, housing, and schooling. |
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The ancestors of the modern Tatars were skilled in crafting jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, and copper. |
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There is official support of minority groups such as Russians, Koreans, and Tatars. |
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From 1316 to 1341 Vytenis' brother and successor, Grand Duke Gediminas, expanded the empire as far as Kiev against the Tatars and Russians. |
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From the fifteenth century on, Crimean Tatars raided Ukraine for slaves, and Zaporozhian kozaks were the only defense against them. |
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This province already had a motley mixture of population, including Turks, Tatars, and Ukrainians. |
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On the other side, Russians and Tatars, who fled the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. |
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Tatars and Russians also subscribe to the same school of hospitality, centring around the samovar and large arrays of buttery pastries. |
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These men were free, as opposed to the serfs of the sixteenth century, and organized to fend off marauding Tatars. |
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They proudly call themselves Cossacks, and believe they have a mission to defend Russian Orthodoxy and to keep the Crimean Tatars in check. |
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After Russians and Ukrainians, the Tatars are the most populous ethnic group in the Russian Federation. |
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While Felix Cheremnykh is an ethnic Russian, Renat Udarov and Marat Mimlikeev seem to be ethnic Tatars or Bashkirs. |
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There were only Russians, Tatars, Poles, Cossacks, and Kalmucks, and a number of the figures are repeated. |
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Perhaps Washington can do to the Arabs what Moscow did to the Tatars? |
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Zaporozhian Cossack autonomy declined as the Russian Empire grew in power and reach, imposing its might over the Tatars. |
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The Crimean Tatars, however, who were shipped away to Kazakhastan by Stalin after WWII, have no desire to join a resurgent Russia. |
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The dynastically related western principality of Halych and Volyn resisted the Mongols and Tatars and became a Rus bastion through the fourteenth century. |
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But for the Tatars, what they endured as a result of Moscow diktats is living history. |
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He defeated what was left of the Tatars, mostly by conniving with leaders of what was left of the Tatars. |
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Nevski was also very successful in holding at bay the Germans and Tatars as well as the Lithuanians and Finns, all of who were aspiring to gain territory in Russia. |
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Having invaded the Russian steppes alongside the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Tatars were seen by medieval Russian chroniclers as the epitome of Oriental barbarism. |
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Under Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union deported some 200,000 Tatars to Uzbekistan, nearly half of whom died along the way. |
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In 1944, on the pretext that they had collaborated with the Germans, Stalin ordered the deportation within a few days of the remaining 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia. |
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Russians still make up 34.7 percent of the population, and other non-Kazakhs such as Ukrainians, Koreans, Turks, Chechnians, and Tatars, make up another 17 percent. |
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The Kazan Tatars prepare many familiar Near Eastern dishes such as pilafs and kebabs using cold-climate ingredients, beef or goose often replacing lamb and chicken. |
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Peoples subject to the khan included the Chuvash, Mari, Mordva, Mishar Tatars, Udmurt, and Bashkir. |
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More recently, this area was settled by Tatars, Chuvash and Russians, who erected defensive walls to guard the southern border. |
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The administration, known as the Kazan Palace's Office undertook the forced Russification and Christianization of the Tatars and other peoples. |
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Most of the population of the Astrakhan khanate were Astrakhan Tatars and Nogays. |
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After the fall of khanate, Tatars were attacked by Kalmyks, that displaced Nogai nomads. |
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However, approximately 70,000 Astrakhan Tatars still live in Astrakhan Oblast. |
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In retaliation, Tatars living under Ottoman rule launched raids into the Commonwealth, mostly in the southeast territories. |
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Many Cossacks and Tatars developed longstanding enmity due to the losses of their raids. |
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The Ural Cossacks spoke Russian and identified as having primarily Russian ancestry, but they also incorporated many Tatars into their ranks. |
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The Tatars struck a decisive blow on December 20, when a Cossack party of twenty men were discovered and slain. |
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In September 1583, a call for help from a Tatar leader named Karacha was delivered to Yermak begging for assistance against the Nogai Tatars. |
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Heeding these omens, the Tatars buried him as a hero, killing thirty oxen in his name. |
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Although the Tatars quickly began raids against their familiar foe, after a short period they ceased, leaving the Russians to their new town. |
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The Tatars, despite being convinced that the armor had divine properties, agreed to the sale upon the involvement of the voyevoda. |
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Merchant Stroganovs, who explored Ural deposits, requested the Cossacks punish the Siberian Tatars. |
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However, Russian fire did not inflict many casualties among the Tatars, who hid among the trees. |
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The war caused an exodus of the Crimean Tatars, about 200,000 of whom moved to the Ottoman Empire in continuing waves of emigration. |
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In 1571, the Crimean Tatars attacked and sacked Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin and taking thousands of captives as slaves. |
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He began fighting the Tatars, enlarged the territory of Muscovy, and enriched his capital city. |
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However, in 1547, two fires destroyed much of the town, and in 1571 the Crimean Tatars captured Moscow, burning everything except the Kremlin. |
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The Tatars were part of the Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan. |
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The rest of the Tatars proceeded with the offensive, but the Cossacks continued shooting, killing many Siberians. |
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Other historians consider that they were enslaved while captured during the battles with the Tatars. |
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In 1285 Ladislaus the Cuman fought the Tatars and Cumans, arriving with his troops at the Moldova River. |
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The invading Mongols, together with their mostly Turkic subjects, were known as Tatars. |
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In Russia, the Tatars ruled the various states of the Rus' through vassalage for over 300 years. |
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In 1590 Kuchum raided the Tatars around Tobolsk who were paying yasak to the Russians. |
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In addition, over 450,000 ethnic Germans from Ukraine and more than 200,000 Crimean Tatars were victims of forced deportations. |
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But in everyday life the majority of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea use Russian. |
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Moldavia was invaded repeatedly by Crimean Tatars and, beginning in the 15th century, by the Turks. |
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Other minorities include Ukrainians, Germans, Turks, Lipovans, Aromanians, Tatars, and Serbs. |
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There were also slaves of Tatar ethnicity, probably prisoners captured from the wars with the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. |
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Other historians consider that the Roma were enslaved while captured during the battles with the Tatars. |
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At the same time, the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, the only remaining successor to the Golden Horde, continued to raid Southern Russia. |
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On 29 June, the Cossack forces were attacked by the Tatars but again repelled them. |
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A horde of Siberian Tatars, Voguls and Ostyaks massed at Mount Chyuvash to defend against invading Cossacks. |
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On 23 October, the Cossacks attempted to storm the Tatar fort at Mount Chyuvash for a fourth time when the Tatars counterattacked. |
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On 1 April 1424, the Yongle Emperor launched a large campaign into the Gobi Desert to chase an army of fleeing Tatars. |
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Manchuria's native Jurchens and Water Tatars, who had suffered a famine, supported Nayan. |
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Khabul's successor was Ambaghai Khan, who was betrayed by the Tatars, handed over to the Jurchen, and executed. |
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The Mongols then resumed attacks on the Tatars to avenge the death of their late khan, opening a long period of active hostilities. |
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Before completing his sentence, Pinto was taken prisoner by invading Tatars. |
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When Safa Giray invaded Muscovy in December 1540, the Russians used Qasim Tatars to contain him. |
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In the later years of Ivan's reign, the southern borders of Muscovy were disturbed by Crimean Tatars. |
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Initially, Cossacks were allied with Crimean Tatars, which had helped them to throw off Polish rule. |
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According to the Ginghizide tradition, the local Turkic tribes were also called Tatars by the steppe nobility and, later, by the Russian elite. |
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The Crimean Tatars attacked again in 1591, but this time were held back by new defence walls, built between 1584 and 1591 by a craftsman named Fyodor Kon. |
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Because a siege would be fatal for the Tatars, they decided to fight at the river bank, and hide ambushing forces behind the numerous fallen trees in the area. |
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The Khanate of Sibir ruled an ethnically diverse population of Turkic Siberian Tatars and various Uralic peoples including the Khanty, Mansi, Nenets and Selkup. |
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The reason he approached the voyevoda was that he had previously been denied a trade by the Tatars after offering them ten slave families and a thousand sheep. |
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Unlike Kuchum and his Mohammedan Tatars, many of these groups were pagan. |
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Yermak remained in Siberia and continued his struggle against the Tatars until 1584, when a raid organized by Kuchum Khan ambushed and killed him and his party. |
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Orthodox bishops such as Germogen forcibly baptized many Tatars. |
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Tatars were then resettled far away from rivers, roads and Kazan. |
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