Astrakhan Tatars
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Astrakhan Tatars (Tatar: Əsterxan tatarları, Əsterhan tatarlary, Ashtarkhan tatarları) are an ethnic subgroup of the Tatar.
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Total population | |
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60.000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 30-60,000[1] |
Languages | |
Tatar, Nogai, Russian | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Tatars |
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In the 15th to 17th-centuries, the Astrakhan Tatars inhabited the Astrakhan Khanate (1459–1556), which was also inhabited by the Nogai Horde, and the Astrakhan Tatars exerted a profound effect on Nogais. Since the 17th century, there has been an increased interaction and ethnic mixing of the Astrakhan Tatars with Volga Tatars.[2]