- Keräşen Tatars
Keräşen Tatars ( [IPA|keræˈʃen] , _tt. керәшеннәр|Keräşennär, Keräşen orthography: кряшенняр [ [http://www.kryashen.ru/kryash/kryash.php] ] , _ru. татары-кряшены) is a sub-group of the
Volga Tatars , frequently referred as one of the minority ethnic groups inRussian Federation . They are mostly found inTatarstan and inUdmurtia ,Bashkiria andChelyabinsk Oblast . Keräşen Tatars are Orthodox Christians and some of them regard themselves as being different from other Tatars even though most Keräşen dialects differ only slightly from the Central Dialect of theTatar language .The 2002 census recorded 24,668 Keräşen in Russia.References
* [http://religion.ng.ru/printed/pravoslav/2001-11-14/4_kryashen.html Кряшены: от бесправия к самоопределению]
* [http://rusk.ru/st.php?idar=8540 Этнокультурная идентичность кряшен]
* [http://kryashen.ru]
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