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The
Balkars (
Karachay-Balkar: sg. малкъар -
malqar, pl. малкъарла -
malqarla) are a
Turkic people of the
Caucasus region, the
titular population of
Kabardino-Balkaria. Their
Karachay-Balkar language is of the Ponto-Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern (Kypchak) group of
Turkic languages. Related to
Crimean Tatar and
Kumyk. There is also an opinion that the Balkars are remnants of a branch of the
Bulgar tribe that moved into the
Caucasus after the westward movement of the
Hunnish wave at the beginning of the
4th century AD.
About 105,000 (2002) Balkars live in the Russian republic of
Kabardino-Balkaria.
The term
Balkar is said to be derived from
Bolgar or
Bulgar, the Balkars supposedly being
Bulgars who lived in
Onoghur and
Great Bulgaria and who remained in the
Caucasus as the others migrated to the
Balkans and
Middle Volga.
In
1944,
Stalin accused the Balkars of Kabardino-Balkaria of collaborating with
Nazi Germany and deported the entire population. The territory was renamed the
Kabardin ASSR until
1957, when the Balkar population was allowed to return and its name was restored.
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