In Turkic peoples Turkic include the Altai, Azerbaijanis, Balkar, Bashkir, Dolgan, Karachay, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakass, Kipchak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nogay, Shor, Read More
demography and history of
Kabardino-Balkariya
In Kabardino-Balkariya The Balkar of the high mountains long resisted Russian incursion. The area was organized as the Kabardin autonomous oblast (region) in 1921 and extended in 1922 through amalgamation with Balkariya to form the Kabardino-Balkar autonomous oblast, which was constituted as an autonomous republic in 1936. In… Read More
Russia
In Russia: The Altaic group …North Caucasus region, includes the Balkar, Karachay, Kumyk, and Nogay. There also are numerous Turkic-speaking groups in southern Siberia between the Urals and Lake Baikal: the Altai, Khakass, Shor, Tofalar, and Read More