Bashkir
Americannoun
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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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Alsynov, the convicted activist, was a leader of a group that advocated the preservation of the Bashkir language and culture and protested against limestone and gold mining operations in the region.
From Seattle Times ● 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
Tatar and Bashkir are closely related languages spoken by indigenous peoples in two central Russian regions.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
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
But the Bashkir looked at him with the same expression, and spoke never a word.
From The Daughter of the Commandant by Milne-Home, Mary Pamela
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
There are the Lithuanians and the Finns in the west and north-west, the Tartars and Bashkirs in the east, and the Kalmucks, a Mongol people, who live beyond the Volga.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
Next, Kurolyessoff went off to the district of Ufa and bought from the Bashkirs 60,000 acres.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
But at length, concentrating their strength, they forced the Bashkirs to retreat.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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