A member of a Turkic people native to the Bashkortostan region of Russia; also can refer to their language or culture.
From Russian 'башкир' (Bashkir), from Turkic roots. The Bashkir people have inhabited the southern Urals since at least the 1200s.
The Bashkirs are one of Russia's unsung stories—they fiercely resisted Russian colonization in the 1700s, and their language survives today as one of Russia's minority Turkic languages, showing how empires never fully erase conquered peoples.
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