Bashkir
Americannoun
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Bashkirs,
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Bashkir
plural
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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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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
Alsynov was a leader of a group that advocated for preserving the Bashkir language and culture, and protested limestone and gold mining operations in the region.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 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
The Bashkir people have been thoroughly awed, and the Kirghiz, too, have had some good lessons.
From The Daughter of the Commandant by Mary Pamela Milne-Home
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
But at length, concentrating their strength, they forced the Bashkirs to retreat.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
He was to be met on his route by ten thousand Bashkirs and as many Kirghises, implacable enemies of the Kalmucks, from whom they had suffered in past years.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Till the arrival of the Mongolians, about the middle of the 13th century, the Bashkirs were a strong and independent people and troublesome to their neighbours, the Bulgarians and Petchenegs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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