Post by Διαμονδ on Dec 21, 2017 9:37:19 GMT
The Bashkirs (/ˈbɑːʃkiːrz/, Bashkir: Башҡорттар, Başqorttar, Russian: Башкиры, Baškiry) are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan, extending on both sides of the Ural Mountains, in the area where Eastern Europe meets North Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the Republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan Oblasts and other regions of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan and other countries.
Most Bashkirs speak the Bashkir language, closely related to Tatar and Kazakh languages which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages and share cultural affinities with the broader Turkic peoples. In religion the Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab.
Anthropological types of Bashkirs:
The anthropological composition of the Bashkirs is heterogeneous, a mixture of European and Mongoloid features. M. S. Akimova singled out four basic anthropological types from the Bashkirs:
Sub-Uralid,
Pontid,
Light European(Nordoid),
South-Siberian
(Mongolid)
The most ancient racial types of Bashkirs are the Light European, Pontid and Sub-Uralid,, and the most recent - South-Siberian. The South-Siberian anthropological type in the Bashkirs appeared quite late and is closely connected with the Turkic tribes of the 9th-12th centuries and the Kypchaks of the 13th-14th centuries. The Pamiro-Fergana, Trans-Caspian racial types, also present in the Bashkirs, are associated with the Indo-Iranian and Turkic nomads of Eurasia.
Most Bashkirs speak the Bashkir language, closely related to Tatar and Kazakh languages which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages and share cultural affinities with the broader Turkic peoples. In religion the Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab.
Anthropological types of Bashkirs:
The anthropological composition of the Bashkirs is heterogeneous, a mixture of European and Mongoloid features. M. S. Akimova singled out four basic anthropological types from the Bashkirs:
Sub-Uralid,
Pontid,
Light European(Nordoid),
South-Siberian
(Mongolid)
The most ancient racial types of Bashkirs are the Light European, Pontid and Sub-Uralid,, and the most recent - South-Siberian. The South-Siberian anthropological type in the Bashkirs appeared quite late and is closely connected with the Turkic tribes of the 9th-12th centuries and the Kypchaks of the 13th-14th centuries. The Pamiro-Fergana, Trans-Caspian racial types, also present in the Bashkirs, are associated with the Indo-Iranian and Turkic nomads of Eurasia.
