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Bisermän
The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans or Besermens (, , ) are a numerically small Permian people in Russia. The Russian Empire Census of 1897 listed 10,800 Besermans. There were 10,000 Besermans in 1926, but the Russian Census of 2002 found only 3,122 of them. The Besermyan live in the districts of Yukamenskoye, Glazov, Balezino, and Yar in the northwest of Udmurtia. There are ten villages of pure Besermyan ethnicity in Russia, and 41 villages with a partial Besermyan population. History The Besermyan are of Turkic origin, and are probably the result of a group of Tatars who were assimilated by the Udmurts. In the 13th century during his travel to Mongolia, papal envoy Plano Carpini claimed that the Besermyan were subjects of the Mongols. Russian chronicles sometimes made mention of the Besermyan but it's unclear whether the term was meant to denote the modern group as it was a common derivation of the term "musulman" (Muslim). It is likely that the term had broader usage b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udmurtia
Udmurtia, officially the Udmurt Republic, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital city, capital is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Izhevsk. It was established as the Udmurt (until 1931 — Votskaya) Autonomous administrative division, Autonomous Region on November 4, 1920. Name The name ''Udmurt'' comes from ('meadow people'), where the first part represents the Permic root or ('meadow, glade, turf, greenery'). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurt people, Udmurts are referred to as ('meadow people'), alongside the traditional Russian name . The second part means 'person' (cf. Komi language, Komi , Mari language, Mari ). It is probably an early borrowing from a Scythian languages, Scythian language: or ('person, man'; Sanskrit: Manus or Manushya), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Sanskrit language, Indo-Ary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |