Karagash

Summary

The Karagash (or as they call themselves, Qaragashly, and Qaragash-nogailar) are one of the ethnic Nogay groups that live in the vicinity of Astrakhan, Russia. The largest Karagash settlement is the town of Rastopulovka.

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

Sources edit

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