Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Tatar Villages of Mordovia

This is from a  road atlas of Mordovia.  The mullah of Kadish village highlighted all the Tatar villages that he knew of within the state of Mordovia.   I attempted to make a .pdf of this but it didn't work, too big and clumsy to view maps.  In the interest of the highest quality possible I left the map pages as a series of image files.  These images were taken with an I-pad indoors in two different lighting settings.  The book essentially repeats twice.  I omitted several pages as they were regions with no known Tatar villages.   I hope someone finds this information interesting or relevant.  I certainly do.   Here is link to the file "Tatar Villages of Mordovia.zip"
   here



Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Soviet Bashkortostan


Soviet Bashkir map These maps work best if you click on it to expand and then right click to view at full resolution.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Second Languages

This (expandable) image is of second languages throughout the world.
published on Business Insider.com

Monday, December 10, 2012

Nationalism and the Drive for Sovereignty in Tatarstan, 1988-92

Nationalism and the Driver for Sovereignty in Tatarstan, 1988-92
Origins and Development
Sergei Kondrashov, Macmillan Press Ltd. 2000
ISBN 0-333-73376-2

This book printed in UK, discarded from the Bowling Green State University (Kentucky).
Tatar Nationalism discarded?  I think not!

click to enlarge above map of Tatarstan location

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Petit Fute - Tatarstan - Guidebook


Tatarstan - Michel Strogoff, Dominique Auzias, Pierre-Christian Brochet
Avante-Garde 2000

 
 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Business Profile - 2007

Google E-Book here

We found this interesting document online.  It's from 2007, but still worth a look.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Idel Oural - Idel- Ural

I'm not sure where we obtained this but it's a map of Idel-Oural (Idel-Ural) state that was formed in the wake of the collapse of the Russian Monarchy. The Idel-Oural State was then crushed by Bolsheviks.

The Idel-Ural State was a short-lived Tatar republic with its centre in Kazan that united Tatars, Bashkirs and the Chuvash in the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Often viewed as an attempt to recreate the Khanate of Kazan, the republic was proclaimed on December 12, 1917, by a Congress of Muslims from Russia's interior and Siberia. "Idel-Ural" means "Volga-Ural" in the Tatar language.

On May 5, 1917 more than 800 non-Russian delegates representing Maris, Chuvashes, Udmurts, Mordvans (Mokshas and Erzyas), Komis, Komi-Permyaks, Kalmyks and Tatars held a general meeting in Kazan to create an independent Idel-Ural Republic in the Idel-Ural area in Russia. As a first concrete step, it was decided to create four professorships and two researchers' posts at Kazan University. The main idea was a loose League of Small Nations where all were free to strengthen their own cultural heritage. At first the Muslim Bashkirs declined to participate, but later in 1917 they and the Volga Germans joined the League of Idel-Ural.

Initially it comprised only Tatars and Bashkirs in the former Kazan and Ufa governorates, although other, non-Muslim and non-Turkic, nations of the area joined in a few months later: the Komi peoples, Mari, and Udmurts, who speak Finnic languages and practise either Orthodox Christianity or shamanism.[1] Defeated by the Red Army in April 1918, the republic was restored by the Czech Legion in the same July and the Bolsheviks managed finally to dissolve at the end of the year. This led to open revolt in 1919-1920 and even after the revolt was smashed by the Bolsheviks in 1921, the idea of the Idel-Ural State continued to exist clandestinely until 1929. That year the Cheka finally managed to infiltrate the Idel-Ural movement and smashed the leadership. Several thousand Idel-Ural supporters were executed all over the Volga and Ural minority-settled regions.

The president of Idel-Ural, Sadrí Maqsudí Arsal, escaped to Finland in 1918. He was well-received by the Finnish foreign minister, who remembered his valiant defence of the national self-determination and constitutional rights of Finland in the Russian Duma. The president-in-exile also met officials from Estonia before continuing in 1919 to Sweden, Germany and France, in a quest for Western support. Idel-Ural was listed among the "Captive Nations" in the Cold War-era public law (1959) of the United States.
Present-day Tatar nationalists rely on the historic precedent of an independent Idel-Ural to justify the re-establishment of a Turkic state independent of the Russian Federation."

wiki

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

1853 Mitchell Map

It appears that in 1853, Kazan was the only city in Europe and sat alone like an island off the coast of Asia.