Chulyms
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| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Russia
•  Krasnoyarsk Krai | 382[1] |
| Languages | |
| Chulym, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodox, Islam and Shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Khakas, Sybyrs, Shors, | |
The Chulyms, also Chulym Tatars (self-designation: Сыбырлар, Sıbırlar), are a Turkic people in the Tomsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. According to the 2020 census, there were 382 Chulyms in Russia.
History
The Chulym Tatars first came to the
They used to live along the middle and lower reaches of the
During the 16th century, the Russian conquered the Chulyms and their newly settled land. In 1720, the Chulyms were forcefully converted to Christianity.
Culture
They speak Chulym-Turkic language known as Ös and adhere to a religious mixture of Sunni Islam, Russian Orthodoxy and Shamanism.
The Chulyms were originally hunters and trappers. However, modernization has changed their livelihood and they mainly work in factories, tanneries and sawmills.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Национальный состав населения". [1] Federal State Statistic Service Federal State Statistics Service (Russia) (in Russian)
- ISBN 978-1-315-47540-0.
- ^ a b c "The Chulym Tatars". www.eki.ee. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ISBN 978-0-313-27497-8.
References
- James Stuart Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas and Nicholas Charles Pappas. "An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires". Greenwood Press, 1994. page 162
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