Bashkirs
- plural of Bashkir.
Example Sentences
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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
The original inhabitants of the land are men of peace, the wandering tribes of Bashkirs.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
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)
Circassian noblemen in complete mail, and wild Bashkirs with bows and arrows, were there.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
