Beauty of Crimean Tatar Culture

Crimean Tatar people Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Most pictures from here: http://www.tatar.ro/fotografii.php The song's name is Onekide Ordek by Yalcin Faik. A free mp3 of the song can be fround here: http://www.tatar.ro/multimedia.php The Crimean Tatars and non-Russian minorities living in Crimea are descendants of a mix of Turkic (Bulgars, Khazars, Petchenegs and Cumans) and non-Turkic (Alans, East Slavs, Romanians, Byzantine Greeks, Crimean Goths, Circassians), as well as of other various people (e.g. Venetians and Genoese), who lived, settled (colonised) or were even brought as slaves by the Tatars themselves, in the Crimean penisula and the adjacent areas north of the Black Sea (the Pontic-Caspian steppe). The non-Turkic populations were assimilated into the Turkic ones. The Crimean Tatars are subdivided into three sub-ethnic groups: the Tats (Tat Tatars) (not to be confused with the Tat people) who used to inhabit the mountainous Crimea before 1944 (about 55%), the Yalıboyu Tatars who lived on the southern coast of the peninsula (about 30%), the Noğay Tatars (not to be confused with the Nogai people) - former inhabitants of the Crimean steppe (about 15%). The Tats and Yalıboyus have a Caucasian physical appearance, while the Noğays retain Mongoloid characteristics. In modern times, in addition to living in Crimea, Ukraine, there is a large diaspora of Crimean Tatars in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Western Europe and North America, as well as small communities in Finland, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Poland. (See Lipka Tatars and Crimean Tatar diaspora) Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more about Crimean Tatars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars