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The Tatars are a group of Turkic speaking peoples found across Eastern Europe and Northern Asia who bear the name "Tatar".
Orkhon inscriptions in Old Turkic (replica)
Ottoman miniature of the 1566 Szigetvár campaign showing Ottoman troops and Crimean Tatars as vanguard
Volga Tatars in traditional clothing
Tatar women in Kazan, Tatarstan
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Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. W
Tatars
…500,000 – 6.7 million Afghan Tatars: c. 100,000 Siberian Tatars: c. 100,000–200,000 Lipka Tatars: c. 10,000–15,000 Regions with significant populations Russia 5,554,601 Turkey 4–6 million Ukraine (incl. population in Crimea and Crimean Tatars) 319,377 Uzbekistan ≈239,965 (Crimean Tatars) Kazakhstan 208,987…
Bronze Age spread of Yamnaya Steppe pastoralist ancestry between 3300 and 1500 BC, including the Afanasievo culture of southern Siberia
Sergius of Radonezh blessing Dmitry Donskoy in Trinity Sergius Lavra, before the Battle of Kulikovo, depicted in a painting by Ernst Lissner
Ivan IV was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then Tsar of Russia until his death in 1584.
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow by Albrecht Adam (1851)