Karachays

Karachays
Къарачайлыла
Flag of the Karachay
Total population
c. 250,000
Regions with significant populations
Russia 226,271
205,578[1]
Turkey20,000[2]
Languages
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups

The Karachays or Karachais (Karachay-Balkar: къарачайлыла, romanized: qaraçaylıla or таулула, romanized: tawlula, lit. 'mountaineers' or аланла, romanized: alanla, lit. ‘the Alans’ or ‘the people of the Alans’)[3][4][5][6] are an indigenous[7] North Caucasian-Turkic ethnic group native to the North Caucasus. They are primarily located in their ancestral lands in Karachay–Cherkess Republic, a republic of Russia in the North Caucasus. They have a common origin, culture, and language with the Balkars.[8]

  1. ^ "Russian Census of 2021" (in Russian).
  2. ^ "Malkar Türkleri" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 3 October 2016.
  3. ^ Peter B. Golden (2010). Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia. p. 33.
  4. ^ Лобжанидзе, Александр; Заяц, Дмитрий (20 January 2015). Этнокультурные регионы мира (in Russian). Litres. Archived from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  5. ^ Ėmma Shirii︠a︡zdanovna Geni︠u︡shene, Zlatka Guentchéva, Reciprocal Constructions, Vol. 3, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, s. 971
  6. ^ Tavkul, Ufuk. ПУТЕШЕСТВИЕ К СЕРДЦУ КАВКАЗА КАРАЧАЙ-МАЛКАР. p. 77. Archived from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  7. ^ Szczśniak, Andrew L. (1963). "A Brief Index of Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Asiatic Russia". Anthropological Linguistics. 5 (6): 1–29. ISSN 0003-5483. JSTOR 30022425.
  8. ^ "КАРАЧАЕВЦЫ • Большая российская энциклопедия – электронная версия". old.bigenc.ru. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

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