Bashkir
Americannoun
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Bashkirs,
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Bashkir
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a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.
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the Turkic language of the Bashkir, closely related to Tatar.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people of E central Russia, living chiefly in the Bashkir Republic
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the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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The protest, driven by tensions between indigenous Bashkir people and ethnic Russians, raised the specter of new cultural and nationalist divisions.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Bashkir singer Altynai Valitov was visited by local authorities in Ufa after he put out a call on Instagram for protests to take place both in Bashkortostan and elsewhere in Russia.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
Mr. Alsynov had called for greater cultural and economic autonomy for the predominantly Muslim Bashkir people of Russia’s Ural Mountains.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
The 28,000 Russian, Bashkir, and Tatar farmers living on the river—drinking, cooking, and bathing with river water—had no idea.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2013
For it is to the Bashkir country that the Franciscan travellers apply the term Great Hungary, showing that they were led to believe it the original seat of the Magyars.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Indigenous people, mostly Muslim Bashkirs, a Turkic ethnic group, make up just under a third of the region’s population.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Alsynov was a leader of Bashkort, a grassroots movement set up to preserve the ethnic identity of the Bashkirs which was banned as extremist in 2020.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
For, no sooner did the Bashkirs find themselves too heavily pressed, and that the Kalmuck march had been retarded by some hours, than they retired into the boundless 10 deserts, where all pursuit was hopeless.
From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by Simonds, William Edward
At this crisis, it is probable that envy and wounded pride, upon witnessing the splendid victories of Oubacha and Momotbacha over the 15 Turks and Bashkirs, contributed strength to the Russian irritation.
From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by Simonds, William Edward
The Bashkirs, beginning to perceive here and there the approach of the Chinese cavalry, felt it prudent—wheresoever they were sufficiently 15 at leisure from the passions of the murderous scene—to gather into bodies.
From De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars by Simonds, William Edward
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