Chuvash people

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Chuvash people

The Chuvash (Chuvash

Chuvash language

Chuvash ) is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Republic of Chuvashia and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....
; Russian:

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
??????; ) are a Turkic

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....
-speaking people. According to the Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
of 2002, the Chuvash population in Russia numbered 1 637 200; 889 268 (67,69% population of the Chuvashia) of these lived in Chuvashia. The remainder 126 500 lived in Tatarstan

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....
's Aqsubay, Bua, Nurlat, Tätes, Çirmesän, Çüpräle rayons (7,7%), 117 300 in Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains....
(7,1%), 111 300 in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is Ulyanovsk, named for Vladimir Illyich Lenin's family name Ulyanov....
(8%), 101 400 in Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located in the Volga Federal District. The administrative center is the city of Samara, Russia....
(6,2%) and also in Tyumen

Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
, Kemerovo

Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast , often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , is located in southwestern Siberia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains....
, Orenburg

Orenburg Oblast

Orenburg Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Orenburg....
, Rostov

Rostov Oblast

Rostov Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast lies in the south of Russia with an area of 100,800 km? and a population of 4,404,013 making it the fifth most populous federal subject in Russia....
, Volgograd

Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Volgograd.Area: 113,900 km?; population: 2,699,223 ....
oblasts of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
, as well as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....
and Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
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They are divided into three groups: Hill Chuvashs (??????, ????; viryal, turi) in northern and northeastern Chuvashia; Meadow Chuvashs (???? ????; anat yenci) in central and southwestern Chuvashia; and Downer Chuvashs (??????; anatri) in southern Chuvashia and outside of Chuvashia.

They speak the Chuvash language

Chuvash language

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
traditions.

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The Chuvash (Chuvash

Chuvash language

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
??????; ) are a Turkic

Turkic languages

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n census

Census

Tatarstan

Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains....
(7,1%), 111 300 in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast

Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located in the Volga Federal District. The administrative center is the city of Samara, Russia....
(6,2%) and also in Tyumen

Tyumen Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Orenburg Oblast

Orenburg Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Orenburg....
, Rostov

Rostov Oblast

Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Volgograd.Area: 113,900 km?; population: 2,699,223 ....
oblasts of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Kazakhstan

Ukraine

Chuvash language

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
traditions. In addition to the Chuvash language, many Chuvash people also use the Russian and Tatar languages.

There are rival schools of thought on the origin of the Chuvash. One is that they originated from a mixing between the Suar

Suars

The Suars were a Turkic-speaking people, probably of Hunnish descent, who lived in Eastern Europe in Middle Ages.Tatar scholars claim that the Suars were a branch of the Sabir people who migrated to the Middle Volga in the 8th century CE....
or Sabir tribe of the Volga Bolgars with local Mari

Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
tribes. Another is that the Chuvash are remainders of pre-Volga Bolgar (Hunnic) population of Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is an historic Bulgarian state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga River and Kama River rivers in what is now Russia....
, partly merged with Scythians, Volga Bolgars and Mari

Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
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Some scholars believe a part of the Chuvash people converted to Islam

Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
in Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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and merged with the Tatars

Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
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In the 15th-16th centuries, Chuvash lands were incorporated into the Khanate of Kazan

Khanate of Kazan

The Kazan Khanate was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan....
, and then in 1550 annexed by Russia. From 1708 to 1920, the Chuvash lands were part of the Kazan Governorate

Kazan Governorate

The Kazan Governorate or Government of Kazan was a governorate of Imperial Russia from 1708?1920, with the city of Kazan as its capital....
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Chuvashs are the third largest ethnic group in the city of Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center of Tatar culture....
(1.2%).