Siberian Tatars

Turkic Khanate located in southwestern Siberia with a Turco-Mongol ruling class

Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia

indigenous Turkic-speaking ethnic group of South Siberia

thumb|Sibier, the region and the city, can be seen on this map by Gerhard Mercator (published 1595), positioned on a left tributary of the [[Ob River. Mercator places Sibir correctly at about 58° northern latitude, but somewhat too much to the west.]]

Siberian Tatar Khan of Sibir from 1563 to 1598

thumb|Tumen (Chimgi-Tura) on Sigismund von Herberstein's map, published in 1549 Chimgi-Tura or Chingi-Tura (, ) was a medieval city in the 12th to 16th centuries located in Western Siberia. After the Russian conquest, it was refounded as Tyumen.

Taibuga (), the first khan of the Khanate of Sibir, came to power in the 13th century as a result of the power vacuum caused by the breakup of the Mongol Empire. Some legendary accounts identify him as a noble from Bukhara and associate him with the conversion of Sibir to Islam.

Pitsen is a forest creature in the Siberian Tatars' mythology.

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