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Nogai people

Nogais
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Nogai man in national costume, 19th century
Total population
128,000 (Estimate)
Regions with significant populations
 Russia 103,660
*  Dagestan 38,168
*  Stavropol Krai 20,680
*  Karachay-Cherkessia 14,873
*  Astrakhan Oblast 4,570
*  Chechnya 3,572
*  Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 2,502
*  Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 1708
 Romania 10,700
 Bulgaria 500
 Kazakhstan 400
 Ukraine 385
 Uzbekistan 200
 Turkey 90,000
Languages
Nogai, Russian, Turkish
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups

Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs


Only spoken by Nogais in Turkey

Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs

The Nogais are a Turkic ethnic group, who live in southern European Russia, mainly in the North Caucasus region. Most are found in northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay–Cherkessia and the Astrakhan Oblast; and also live in Chechnya. They speak the Nogai language and are descendants of various Mongolic and Turkic tribes, who formed the Nogai Horde. There are two main groups of Nogais:

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 Dobruja (today in Romania), in the town of Mihail Kogălniceanu (Karamurat) and villages of Lumina (Kocali), Valea Dacilor (Hendekkarakuyusu), Cobadin (Kubadin).


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