Finnish Tatars

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Finnish Tatars

The Finnish Tatar community, about 800 people, is recognized as a national minority by the government of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
, which considers their language as a non-territorial language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a European treaty adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional language and minority languages in Europe....
.

Their main organizations are the Finnish Islamic Congregation (Finlandiya Islam Cemaati, founded in 1925), the Tatar Cultural Society (Finlandiya Türkleri Birligi, founded in 1935) and the Yolduz sports club (founded in 1945).

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The Finnish Tatar community, about 800 people, is recognized as a national minority by the government of Finland

Finland

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
from 1948 to 1969.

Their ancestors came to Finland from the 1870s to the mid 1920s from a group of some 20 villages in the Sergach

Sergach

Sergach is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Pyana River , south-east of Nizhny Novgorod....
region on the Volga River

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, Discharge , and Drainage basin. It flows through the western part of Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia....
, to the southeast of Nizhni Novgorod. Those living in the city of Viipuri in Karelia

Karelia

Karelia , the land of the Karelians, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden. It is currently divided between the Russian Republic of Karelia, the Russian Leningrad Oblast, and Finland ....
resettled in Finland when Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
in 1940.

Most notable Finnish Tatar is former soccer player Atik Ismail.

Finnish Tatars

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