Volga Tatars

Volga -Urals Tatars is a collective name by which Tatar ethnic groups of the Volga - Ural region and are referred to. In Europe, the name Volga Tatars is widespread.

In a narrower sense within this category mainly the Tatar -born residents of the Russian autonomous republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan. Especially the latter are summed under the term "Volga Tatars ", so the term is often identified with the name Kazan Tatars and with the term Qazanlıq.

The Volga-Ural Tatars see today even as the direct heirs of both the former Golden Horde and the Volga Bulgars. Not to be counted among the Volga-Ural Tatars also Turkic Chuvash and Bashkirs.

Structure

Today is expected following Tatar population groups to the Volga-Ural Tatars:

The special case of Astrakhan Tatars

The Astrakhan Tatars ( AstraxanTatarları ) are only from a historical perspective to the Volga-Ural Tatars. Today these are as independent Tatar group of the Volga - Ural region, which has more in common with the Nogaiern as with the other Tartars. But on several occasions the Astrakhan Tatars are still expected to the Volga-Ural Tatars and listed as the sixth subgroup.

The Astrakhan Tatars were together with the Volga Tatars and the heirs of the Golden Horde, Khanate as its one of the four successor kingdoms of the former Mongol Empire formed part.

Tatar minorities outside Russia

Tatar ethnic groups, which can be derived from the Volga-Ural Tatars directly, also live in the eastern and northern European countries, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and Sweden. But also in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and among the Tatars of China can be descendants of the Volga -Urals Tatars prove.