There are two Tatar villages (Bohoniki and Kruszyniany) in the north-east of present-day Poland, as well as urban Tatar communities in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Białystok, and Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Jan 2, 2026 · Tatar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central …

Dec 26, 2025 · The name Tatar is said to have first appeared around the beginning of the 5th century AD amongst the nomadic Turkic peoples of northeastern Mongolia in the region of Lake Baikal.

Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland.

In many parts of Europe, the term Tatar (or Tartar) has historically been used to denote both the Mongols themselves and various Turkic peoples that are under Mongol rule, especially during the …

Tatar should not be confused with Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar, which are different languages, although also part of the Kipchak language group. Like other Turkic languages, Tatar was …

I argue that the name 'Tatar' was adopted by the Turkic peoples in the region as a sign of having joined the Tatar conquerors – a practice which Friar Julian reported in the 1230s as the conquest unfolded.

Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: qırımtatarlar, къырымтатарлар), or simply Crimeans (qırımlılar, къырымлылар), are an Eastern European Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. [9]

The Tatar Wikipedia mainly uses the Cyrillic script. However, unlike most other Cyrillic-based languages, some of the articles are in Latin script; accordingly, the language name appears in the language …

Neighbouring non-Turkic peoples called any Turkic-speaking people Tatar. Nowadays, this term is used to refer to certain Turkic peoples. Russian historian D. Iskhakov wrote in 2000: “the real history of …