Crimean Tatars, or simply Crimeans, are an Eastern European Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted thousands of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the c

The Karachays or Karachais are a North Caucasian-Turkic ethnic group primarily located in their ancestral lands in Karachay–Cherkess Republic, a republic of Russia in the North Caucasus. They and the