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Also known as Sibirs, Siberian Tatars

indigenous Turkic-speaking ethnic group of South Siberia

Key facts

Russia
6,297 (2020 census) – 210,000 Tyumen Oblast : 5,711 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug : 182 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug : 98 Omsk Oblast : 138 Novosibirsk Oblast : 24 Tomsk Oblast : 12 Sverdlovsk Oblast : 12 Kemerovo Oblast : 6

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Instance of
ethnic group
Subclass of
Tatars
Part of
Tatars
Native language
Tatar
Religion
Islam
Country
Russia
Population
6297
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Category:Siberian Tatars
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Siberian Tatars
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Encyclopedic overview

Siberian Tatars (Siberian Tatar: сибиртатарлар, себер татарлары, romanized: sibirtatarlar, seber tatarları), or simply Siberians (Siberian Tatar: сибиртар, себерләр, romanized: sibirtar, seberlər), are the indigenous Turkic-speaking population of the forests and steppes of southern Western Siberia, originating in areas stretching from somewhat east of the Ural Mountains to the Yenisey River in Russia. The Siberian Tatars call themselves Yerle Qalıq ("older inhabitants"), to distinguish themselves from more recent Volga Tatar immigrants to the region.

The word "Tatar" or "Tadar" is also a self-designation by some closely related Siberian ethnic groups, namely the Altaians, Chulyms, Khakas, and Shors.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sybyrs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.