Tatars (Kimek)

The Tatar (Arabic: Tatār‎) was one of seven Turkophone original tribes that made up the Kimek confederation, along with the Īmī, Īmāk, Bayāndur, Khifchāq, Nilqāz and Ajlad. The Tatār were the third in order.[1] The Kimek tribes originated in the Central Asian steppes, and had migrated to the territory of present-day Kazakhstan.[2] The Tatar, as part of the Kimek, were mentioned by Gardizi (d. 1061).[3]

Further information: Tatars and Tartary

According to R. Fakhroutdinov, these Tatars 'were a branch of the ancient Tatar population that went to the west after the collapse of the Eastern Turkic kaganate'.[4] Mahmud al-Kashgari noted that the Tatars are bilingual, speaking in Türkic alongside their own language.[5] Golden proposed that Tatars were Turkified Mongolic speakers.[6]

See also

References
  1. V. V. Minorsky; C. E. Bosworth (31 January 2015). Hudud al-'Alam 'The Regions of the World' - A Persian Geography 372 A.H. (982 AD). Gibb Memorial Trust. pp. 378–. ISBN 978-1-909724-73-0.
  2. Agajanov 1992, p. 69.
  3. Bosworth 2017.
  4. Fakhroutdinov 2004, p. 37.
  5. Maħmūd al-Kašğari. "Dīwān Luğāt al-Turk". Edited & translated by Robert Dankoff in collaboration with James Kelly. In Sources of Oriental Languages and Literature. Part I. (1982). p. 82-83
  6. Peter B. Golden (1992). An Introduction to the History of the Turkic People. O. Harrassowitz. pp. 184–185.

Sources
  • Fakhroutdinov, Ravil (2004). History of the Tatars. Magarif Publishing House. ISBN 978-5-7761-1250-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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