The Chats (Tatar: чат татарлары, Siberian Tatar: цат татарлар, цаттыр, чатар) — are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk.
Cattyr, Цаттыр | |
|---|---|
 Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia | 2100 |
| Languages | |
| Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Siberian Tatars | |
The Chats (along with other related groups) are Sunni Muslims.[1]
References
edit- ^ Akiner, Shirin (1986). Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union. Routledge. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-136-14274-1.
Sources
edit- Forsyth, James (8 September 1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780521477710.