Karagash
карагаш-ногайлар | |
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_of_Astrakhan_(IA_deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png) "Kundrof Tatar" (Karagash Noghay) 1906 | |
| Total population | |
| ca. 7,000 - 8,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| (Russia) | |
 Russia | 7,000 (2008) |
| Languages | |
| Nogai (Karagash dialect) | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Nogay | |
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.
Sources
- Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the Soviet Union: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk: M. E> Sharp, 1984) p. 93
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