Balkars -

mountain people of Turkish origin. Reside main ly in the Kabardino-Balkaria - an autonomous republic in Russias northern Caucasus. In total, there are about 85 thousand, are ver y closely related to the neighboring republic of living Karaczaja mi (use a common language). Was virtually the same nation, and created a sense of separateness is only with the emergence of separate republics. The land in Russia Bałkarów fall from 1827. In the years 1944-1957 Balkars under the pretext of collaboration with the Germans were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan.

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