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The Balkars (Karachay-Balkar
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
: sg. ??????? - malqar, pl. ????????? - malqarla) are a Turkic people of the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 region, the titular population of Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the North Caucasus. The direct Romanization of Russian of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika, or Kabardino-Balkariya....
. Their Karachay-Balkar language
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
 is of the Ponto-Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern (Kypchak) group of Turkic languages
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
. Related to Crimean Tatar
Crimean Tatar language

The Crimean Tatar language , also known as Crimean and Crimean Turkish is the language of the Crimean Tatars. It is spoken in Crimea, Central Asia , and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria....
 and Kumyk
Kumyk language

Kumyk is a Turkic languages, spoken by about 365,000 speakers in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation.Yir?i Qazaq is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature....
. There is also an opinion that the Balkars are remnants of a branch of the Bulgar
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
 tribe that moved into the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 under Bazbaian after the westward movement of the Hunnish wave at the beginning of the 4th century AD.

About 105,000 (2002) Balkars live in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the North Caucasus. The direct Romanization of Russian of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika, or Kabardino-Balkariya....
.

The term Balkar is said to be derived from Bolgar or Bulgar, the Balkars supposedly being Bulgars
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
 who lived in Onoghur and Great Bulgaria and who remained in the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 as the others migrated to the Balkans
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 and Middle Volga
Tatarstan

Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russian Federation . Its size is 68,000 km? with a population of 3,800,000. Its capital is Kazan....
.

In 1944, Stalin accused the Balkars of Kabardino-Balkaria of collaborating with Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 and deported the entire population.






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The Balkars (Karachay-Balkar
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
: sg. ??????? - malqar, pl. ????????? - malqarla) are a Turkic people of the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 region, the titular population of Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the North Caucasus. The direct Romanization of Russian of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika, or Kabardino-Balkariya....
. Their Karachay-Balkar language
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
 is of the Ponto-Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern (Kypchak) group of Turkic languages
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
. Related to Crimean Tatar
Crimean Tatar language

The Crimean Tatar language , also known as Crimean and Crimean Turkish is the language of the Crimean Tatars. It is spoken in Crimea, Central Asia , and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria....
 and Kumyk
Kumyk language

Kumyk is a Turkic languages, spoken by about 365,000 speakers in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation.Yir?i Qazaq is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature....
. There is also an opinion that the Balkars are remnants of a branch of the Bulgar
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
 tribe that moved into the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 under Bazbaian after the westward movement of the Hunnish wave at the beginning of the 4th century AD.

About 105,000 (2002) Balkars live in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria

The Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the North Caucasus. The direct Romanization of Russian of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika, or Kabardino-Balkariya....
.

The term Balkar is said to be derived from Bolgar or Bulgar, the Balkars supposedly being Bulgars
Bulgars

The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
 who lived in Onoghur and Great Bulgaria and who remained in the Caucasus
Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
 as the others migrated to the Balkans
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
 and Middle Volga
Tatarstan

Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subjects of Russia of the Russian Federation . Its size is 68,000 km? with a population of 3,800,000. Its capital is Kazan....
.

In 1944, Stalin accused the Balkars of Kabardino-Balkaria of collaborating with Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 and deported the entire population. The territory was renamed the Kabardin ASSR until 1957, when the Balkar population was allowed to return and its name was restored.

See also

  • Karachays
    Karachays

    The Karachays are a Turkic peoples of the North Caucasus, mostly situated in the Russian Karachay-Cherkessia....
  • Bulgars
    Bulgars

    The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....