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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

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

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 Morris, Charles

Ba-Sa, the, 117 Ba-Sange, the, 113 Basé, the, 42 Ba-Senga, the, 105 Ba-Shilange, the, 110, 113 Bashkirs, the, 303, 318 sq.,

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court