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Bashkirs

  • plural
    of Bashkir.
    Bashkir
    noun
    a member of a people living in the Bashkir Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas.

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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

But the main check to negotiations was the action of the Bashkirs, who, finding that Traubenberg would not advance, left his camp in a body and set off for the Kalmuck halting-place.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

Pascatir is the country of the Bashkirs, Baschkirians, or Pascatirians in Great Bulgaria, called Great Hungary in the text, between the Volga and the Ural.--E.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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

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