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Karagash

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Karagash
карагаш-ногайлар
"Kundrof Tatar" (Karagash Noghay) 1906
Total population
ca. 7,000 - 8,000
Regions with significant populations
(Russia)
Russia7,000 (2008)
Languages
Nogai(Karagash dialect)
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Nogay

TheKaragash(or as they call themselves,Qaragashly,andQaragash-nogailar) are one of the ethnicNogaygroups that live in the vicinity ofAstrakhan,Russia.The largest Karagash settlement is the town ofRastopulovka.

Sources

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  • Wixman, Ronald.The Peoples of the Soviet Union: An Ethnographic Handbook.(Armonk: M. E> Sharp, 1984) p. 93