Tatars-Mishars of Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhgars) - one of the specific groups of the Tatar people, formed not only and not so much on a regional basis, but also representing a subethnos with its own ethnogenetic, linguistic and cultural characteristics. The Nizhgars differ from other Tatar subethnoses in their special mentality, dialect (they have a special clucking dialect of the Mishar or Western dialect of the Tatar language), and rather strict marital endogamy, which lasted until the 1960s . Ugric-Majar Turkicized peoples include researchers of different pre -Mongol ancestral periods of their number in studies. They are dedicated to a small number , including the clarified, not fully understood and controversial issue - the Tatar-Mishars origin in general In the (Mozhar) Khazars, Kipchaks and Burtases. This article is intended to highlight some of the storylines related to these versions. words: Key Khazars, Kipchaks, Burtases, Bulgars, Mishars, Nizhny Novgorod Tatars, Khazar Khaganate, Desht-i-Kipchak, Volga Bulgaria, Purgasova parish. In Poochie, where one of the stages of Mishar ethnogenesis took place, ancient Turkic tribes are recorded quite early. For example, in the Miloslavsky district of the Ryazan region, the Artsybashev burial site, or "horseman's grave", is an archaeological monument left by nomadic Turks of the 7th century. The remains of the Saltovo-Mayak culture, which is associated with the culture of the Khazar Khaganate, were also found at this place. However, a second study of these ceramics showed that they were included in the complex by accident: apparently, there was a settlement on the site of the Artsybash burial even later, in the Khazarian era [Sudakov, 2009, p. 26]. As archaeologists point out on the basis of recent studies, " in the VII-VIII centuries, the peoples of the Saltovo-Mayak culture, whose formation is associated with the Alanian and Turkic-Bulgarian tribes of the North Caucasus and the Don region, began to actively influence t ... Читать далее