Karagash

Karagash
карагаш-ногайлар
"Kundrof Tatar" (Karagash Noghay) 1906
Total population
ca. 7,000 - 8,000
Regions with significant populations
(Russia)
 Russia 7,000 (2008)
Languages
Nogai language
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Astrakhan Tatars, Nogay

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. They are one of the two groups designated as the Astrakhan Tatars. 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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