Burtas
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Burtas (Russian: Буртасы, Burtasy; Chuvash: Пăртассем, Părtassem; Tatar: Бортаслар, Bortas, بُرطاس) were a tribe of uncertain ethnolinguistic affiliation inhabiting the steppe region north of the Caspian Sea in medieval times (modern Penza Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast and Saratov Oblast of the Russian Federation). They were subject to the Khazars.
History
Burtases had converted to Judaism in Khazar times and still practiced the Jewish faith in the 13th century.[1]
[T]he Brutaches who are said to be Jewes shaving their heads all over.
They took part in a great Mongol–Russian battle at Kulikovo pole in 1380, on the side of the Mongols[1] In the 1380s or earlier at least part of them settled in Temnikov Principality.[3] The Tatar-speaking Burtashi ethnic group is sometimes mentioned in forums.[4]
Ethnic Identity
The ethnic identity of the Burtas is disputed, with several different theories ranging from them being a Uralic tribal confederacy (probably later assimilated to Turkic language), and therefore perhaps the ancestors of the modern Moksha people.[5][6]
Some scholars maintain that the Burtas are supposed to be Turkic-speaking and ethnically related with the Volga Bulgars.[7]
Recently some scholars have suggested that the Burtas were Alans or another Iranian ethnolinguistic group. An Alanic (Sarmatian) origin would also explain their name as furt/fort ('big river' in Middle Iranian language or 'beehive' in Turkic language)[8] and the Alanic endonym as.[9][5]
Some Soviet and modern Russian historians such as A.E Alikhova and Gren connected the Burtas to the Chechens and noted that their neighbor Avars call them "Burti".[10]
See also
- Temnikov Principality — Medieval Turkic and Finnic state
References
- ^ a b Shterenshis, Michael (2013). Tamerlane and the Jews. London: Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-315-02956-6. OCLC 868979135.
- ^ Beazley, C. Raymond, ed. (1903). The texts and versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis, as printed for the first time by Hakluyt in 1598, together with some shorter pieces. London: Hakluyt Society. p. 113 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Акчурин, М. М. (2012). "Буртасы в документах XVII века" [The Burtas in Documents of the 17th Century]. Этнологические исследования в Татарстане [Ethnological research in Tatarstan] (in Russian) (VI): 43–48.
- ^ "Исчезнувший народ - буртасы" [Disappeared People – Burtas]. autogear.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ a b Прохоров, А. М., ed. (1971). "Буртасы" [Burtas]. Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 4 (Брасос — Веш). p. 600.
- ^ Новосельцев, А. П. Хазарское государство и его роль в истории Восточной Европы и Кавказа [The Khazar State and its Role in the History of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus] (in Russian). pp. 186–187fn.
- ^ Халиков, А. Х. (1985). "К вопросу об этнической территории буртасов во второй половине VIII — начале Х вв" [On the Question of the Ethnic Territory of the Burtas in the Second Half of the 8th to the Beginning of the 10th Century]. Советская этнография [Ethnographic Review] (in Russian) (5): 161–164.
- ^ Афанасьев, Г. Е. (1985). "Буртасы и лесостепной вариант салтово-маяцкой культуры" [Burtases and the Forest-Steppe Variant of the Saltov–Mayak Culture]. Советская этнография [Ethnographic Review] (in Russian) (5).
- ^ Галкина, Е. С. (2012). Русский каганат. Без хазар и норманнов [Russian Khaganate. Without Khazars and Normans] (in Russian). Moscow, Russia: Алгоритм. ISBN 978-5-4438-0164-3.
- ^ Тесаев, Амин. "Chechen–Bulgar Contacts". Чеченское национальное право [Chechen national law] (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-05.
Literature
- Brook, Kevin Alan (2006). The Jews of Khazaria (2nd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4981-X. OCLC 69332028.
- "Бортаслар". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.
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