Bashkirs, a Turko-Tatar people, inhabiting the Russian provinces of Perm, Orenburg, Viatka, and Ufa. Sunnite Mohammedans in faith, and partly nomadic, they number three-quarters of a million.
Bashkirs
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 772
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