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The Chuvash people are a Turkic ethnic group primarily living in the Chuvash Republic, a region in Russia along the Volga River. They are historically and culturally distinct within the Turkic world, with their own language and traditions that have survived for centuries.
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- Turkic peoples
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- Religion
- atheism
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- Russia
- Population
- 1509300
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- Aged Chuvash women in workaday costumes.jpg
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Chumash people
- language used
- Russian
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chuvash people, also called Chuvash Tatars, are a Turkic ethnic group, a branch of the Oğurs, inhabiting an area stretching from the Idel-Ural region to Siberia.
Most of them live in the Russian republic of Chuvashia and the surrounding area, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout Russia as well as in Central Asia. They speak Chuvash, a Turkic language that diverged from other languages in the family more than a millennium ago. Among the Chuvash believers, the majority are Eastern Orthodox Christians although a minority follow Vattisen Yaly or Sunni Islam.
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