Karagash
Sign in to saveThe Karagash (or as they call themselves, Qaragashly, and Qaragash-nogailar) are one of the ethnic Nogay groups that live in the vicinity of Astrakhan, Russia. The largest Karagash settlement is the town of Rastopulovka.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Karagash
- Ethnic group.native_name
- карагаш-ногайлар
- Ethnic group.image
- File:The Races of Man, figure 107 Kundrof Tatar (Turkoman) of Astrakhan (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- "Kundrof Tatar" (Karagash Noghay) 1906
- Ethnic group.population
- ca. 7,000 - 8,000
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Russia)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 7,000 (2008)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Sunni Islam
- Ethnic group.langs
- Nogai (Karagash dialect)
- Ethnic group.related
- Nogay
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Nogais
- Country
- Russia
- Population
- 218
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The Karagash (or as they call themselves, Qaragashly, and Qaragash-nogailar) are one of the ethnic Nogay groups that live in the vicinity of Astrakhan, Russia. The largest Karagash settlement is the town of Rastopulovka.
==Sources== Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the Soviet Union: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk: M. E> Sharp, 1984) p. 93
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