Nogai
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Nogais,
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Nogai
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a member of a people living in the Caucasus region.
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the Turkic language of the Nogai people.
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Some reports have suggested a connection with the Nogai Brigade, an insurgent group in the Stavropol region of southern Russia.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2011
The Nogai constructs his own cottage with bricks dried in the sun, and whitewashes it regularly once a year within and without.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
They settled in this region much more recently, on the land that was left vacant by the exodus of the Nogai Tartars after the Crimean War.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
He also brought with him imperial orders for Han Tatar Nogai to collect some troops with which to come to his aid.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
See Iungs Nogai, the, 303 Nong, the, 197 sq.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Charms are the only medicine known to the Nogais, and they are even quite indifferent to certain maladies which they attribute to fatality.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The Nogais are rather strict observers of the precepts of Islam.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Since that time the Nogais have had no special governor, but are under the control of functionaries attached to the ministry of the interior, who reside in their villages.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The Nogais had for their emigrations, like the Kalmucks, circular tents of felt, three or four yards in diameter, and conical at top.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The rearing of cattle, particularly horses, forms the chief occupation of the Nogais.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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