Chat Tatars Explained

Group:Chats
Native Name:Cattyr, Цаттыр
Pop1:2100
Languages:Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian
Religions:Sunni Islam
Related:other Siberian Tatars

The Chats (Tatar: чат татарлары, цат татарлар, цаттыр, чатар) — are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk.

The Chats (along with other related groups) are Sunni Muslims.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Akiner, Shirin . Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union . 1986 . Routledge . 978-1-136-14274-1 . 94 . en.