Nogais
Total population | |
---|---|
c. 120,000[3] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 109,042[4] |
∟ Dagestan | 36,944[5] |
∟ Stavropol Krai | 22,569[5] |
∟ Karachay-Cherkessia | 17,368[5] |
∟ Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug | 9,990[5] |
∟ Astrakhan Oblast | 9,320[5] |
∟ Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | 3,740[5] |
∟ Chechnya | 2,819[5] |
Romania | 4,057[6] |
Bulgaria | 500[citation needed] |
Ukraine | 385-2,885[7] |
Languages | |
Nogai, Russian | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam[3] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kumyks, Karachays, Volga Tatars[8][9] |
The Nogais (Nogai: Ногай, Noğay IPA: [noˈɣaj], plural: Ногайлар, Noğaylar [noɣajˈlar]) are a Turkic people who live in the North Caucasus region. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia and Astrakhan Oblast; some also live in Chechnya, Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria), Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and a small Nogai diaspora is found in Jordan. They speak the Nogai language and are descendants of various Mongolic and Turkic tribes who formed the Nogai Horde. There are eight main groups of Nogais: the Ak Nogai, the Karagash, the Kuban-Nogai, the Kundraw-Nogai, the Qara-Nogai, the Utars, Bug-Nogai and the Yurt-Nogai.
Name
For a long time it was believed that their namesake founder was Nogai Khan (lit. 'dog' in Mongolian), a grandson of Jochi. Nogai (d. 1299–1300) was the de facto ruler, kingmaker, and briefly self-proclaimed khan of the Golden Horde.[3]
Geographic distribution
In the 1990s, 65,000 were still living in the Northern Caucasus, divided into Aq (White) Nogai and Qara (Black) Nogai tribal confederations. Nogais live in the territories of Dagestan, Chechnya, Stavropol district and Astrakhan Oblast. From 1928 there was a Nogaysky District, Republic of Dagestan and from 2007 a Nogaysky District, Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
A few thousand Nogais live in
A few thousand Bug-Nogais live in Budjak (today in Ukraine), and they are concentrated mainly in southwest Budjak. They live in the villages of Kotlovyna, Kosa, Krynychne, Karakurt, Oksamytne, Ozerne, Topolyne, Tabaky, Zaliznychne, and Vladychen‘. They also inhabit the towns of Bolhrad and Kubei. They also inhabit the cities of Izmail and Tatarbunary.
Nogais live in Turkey today, mainly settled in
The
Subgroups
From the sixteenth century until their deportation in the mid-nineteenth century, the Nogais living along the Black Sea northern coast were divided into the following sub-groups (west to east):
- Bucak (Budjak) Nogais inhabited the area from Danube to Dniester.
- Cedsan (Yedisan) Nogais inhabited the land from Dniester to Southern Bug.
- Camboyluk (Jamboyluk) Nogais inhabited in the lands from Bug to the beginning of Crimean Peninsula.
- Cedişkul (Jedishkul) Nogais inhabited the north of Crimean peninsula.
- Kuban Nogais inhabited the north of Sea of Azov around Prymorsk (previously Nogaisk).
History
The name Nogai derives from Nogai Khan (died 1299/1300, great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan), a general of the Golden Horde[10][11] (also called the
The recorded history of the Nogais first commenced when[
About 500,000 Nogais migrated to present-day Turkey around the 16th century, after the fall[
At the beginning of the 17th century, the ancestors of the
After the
After confiscating the land previously belonged to Nogais, the Russian government forced Nogais to settle through various methods, such as burning their tents and limiting their freedom of movement. The Russian general
Kumyks, like the Nogais, appeared in the Caucasus in the 13th century. They, in a language, are affected with the Nogais and belong with them to the same branch (Nogai).[15]
Notable Nogais
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- Cüneyt Arkın, film actor
- Albert Batyrgaziev, boxer, Olympic gold medalist
- Arslanbek Sultanbekov, musician
See also
- Little Tartary
- Tatars of Romania
- Manghud
- Crimean–Nogai raids into East Slavic lands
- Karagash
- Nağaybäk
References
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- ^ "Russian Census of 2021". (in Russian)
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- ^ Ismail, Nilghiun. "Romanian Tatar language communication in the multicultural space".
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- ^ Ахметзянов М. И. Татарские родословные (шеджере) / М. И. Ахметзянов – Казань: ИЯЛИ им. Г. Ибрагимова // Золотоордынское обозрение. 2015.
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[...] the Nogay (the term derives from Nogay Khan, the thirteenth-century ruler of the Golden Horde) [...].
- ^ Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia edited by Jeffrey E. Cole [1] "The origin of the Nogais is related to the Golden Horde in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their ethnonym (nogay means 'dog' in Mongolian) seems to have emerged among them under the leadership of Amir Nogay."
- ^ B. B. Kochekaev, Nogaisko-Russkie Otnosheniia v XV-XVIII vv (Alma-Ata: Nauk, 1988), passim.
- ^ P. S. Pallas, Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794, 2 vols. (London: S. Strahan, 1802), 1:533.
- ^ Compare: Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825–1860: "Mennonites lived alongside Nogais – semi-nomadic Tatar pastoralists – in the Molochna region of southern Ukraine from 1803, when Mennonites first arrived, until 1860, when the Nogais departed."
- ^ Загурский Л.П. Этнологическая классификация кавказских народов. — Тифлис, 1888. — С. 11. — 12 с.