Tatars - the second largest nation in Russia after Russian.According to the 2010 census, they account for 3.72% of the population throughout the country.These people, who joined the Moscow State in the second half of the 16th century, over the centuries managed to preserve its cultural identity face, and care for the historical traditions and religion.
Any nation seeking its origins.Is no exception and the Tartars.The origin of this nation began to seriously examine the 19th century, when the accelerated development of bourgeois relations.Special study underwent a national consciousness of the people, separation of its main features and characteristics, the creation of a single ideology.The origin of the Tatars during all this time remains an important research topic both Russian and Tatar historians.The results of many years of work can be roughly represented in the three theories.
first theory is related to the ancient state of Volga Bulgaria.It is believed that the story begins with the Turkic Tatar-Bulgarian ethnic group, emerged from the Asian steppes and settled in the Middle Volga.In the 10-13 centuries, they were able to create their own state.The period of the Golden Horde and the Moscow State has made some adjustments to the formation of the ethnic group, but did not change the essence of Islamic culture.This involves mainly talking about the Volga-Urals group, others Tatars are considered as separate ethnic groups, united only by the name and the history of occurrence of the Golden Horde.
Other researchers believe that the origin of the Tatars their lead from the Central Asian ethnic groups who migrated to the West during the Mongol-Tatar hikes.This entry into the Jochi Ulus and the adoption of Islam played a major role in the unification of disparate tribes and folding a single nation.This indigenous population of Volga Bulgaria were destroyed partially and were partially displaced.The alien tribes created their own distinctive culture, language brought Qypchaq.
Turko-Tatar people of origins in Genesis emphasizes the following theory.By her count her Tatar origins of the great Turkic khanate, the largest Asian states of the Middle Ages the 6th century AD.The theory recognizes a role in the formation of the Tatar ethnic group as the Volga Bulgaria and Khazar Khanate and Kypchak-kimak and Mongol ethnic groups in the Asian steppes.It emphasizes the special role of the Golden Horde, which united all the tribes.
All of the theory of the formation of the Tatar nation stands out the role of Islam, as well as the period of the Golden Horde.Based on historical data, the researchers have different views on the origins of the people.Nevertheless, it is clear that the origin of the Tatars their lead from the ancient Turkic tribes, and historical links with other tribes and nations, of course, had an impact on the image of the nation today.Cherishing culture, language and religion of the Tartars managed not to lose their national identity in the face of global integration.
