The Bashkirs (UK: / b æ ʃ ˈ k ɪər z / bash-KEERZ, US: / b ɑː ʃ ˈ k ɪər z / bahsh-KEERZ) or Bashkurts (Bashkir: Башҡорттар, romanized: Başqorttar, pronounced [bɑʂ.qʊɾt.ˈtaɾ]; Russian: …

Bashkir, member of a Turkic people, numbering more than 1,070,000 in the late 20th century, settled in the eastern part of European Russia, between the Volga River and the Ural …

The Bashkirs are the official indigenous nationality of the republic, although they made up only 21.9 percent of its population in 1989 (compared to 39.3 percent Russians and 28.4 percent …

The Bashkirs are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group, the majority of which lives in a constituent republic of the Russian Federation, Bashkortostan. Today the republic occupies territories from the …

The Bashkirs are one of the ancient peoples of Eurasia, formed in the Southern Ural region as a distinct ethnic group in the first half of the first millennium AD, and they are an indigenous …

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the Central Asian republic of Bashkortostan, an oil rich territory. A significant number of Bashkirs also live in the republic of …

The Bashkirs are a Turkic Muslim people living within the Russian Federation. Bashkirs first appear in historical sources in the 10th century ad, as the inhabitants of the southern Ural …

The Bashkirs or Bashkurts are a Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Russia. They are concentrated in Bashkortostan, a republic of the Russian Federation and in th...

Russian officials considered the Bashkirs a "light-minded" people and blamed Islam for their backwardness. Islam remained strong and served as a rallying cry in the anti-Russian wars. In …

In the first millennium BC began the penetration to the south Ural of the Turkic nomadic tribes, who settled all Bashkiria later. The Turkic tribes supplanted and partly joined the local tribes. …