Bashkirs at the memorial stone for the Bashkir victims of the Battle of Leipzig 1813 next to the Russian Church in Leipzig.
The Bashkirs are a Turkic people and a ethnic minority indigenous to Bashkortostan extending on both parts of the Ural mountains, on the place where Europe meets Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries. They speak the Kypchak-based Bashkir language. The Bashkirs are predominantly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab. The Bashkirs traditionally practiced agriculture, cattle-rearing and bee-keeping. The half-nomadic Bashkirs wandered either the mountains or the steppes, herding cattle. The Bashkirs participated as part of the Russian army in the Napoleonic wars with about 1,200 soldiers.
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Location: Russian Orthodox Memorial Church, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Europe
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