Tyumen-Tura Tatars


Tyumen-Tura Tatars are a sub-group of Siberian Tatars. Their historical administrative center was the town of Chimgi-Tura.
They are divided into four local sub-groups:Tyumen Tatars live in the lower reaches of the Tura and along its tributaries: Nitsa, Tobol, and partly in the basins of the Pyshma and Iset rivers.Tura Tatars inhabit mainly middle and upper reaches of the Tura river and its tributaries.Upper Tura Tatars.Yalutor Tatars.
The Tyumen-Tura Tatars speak Tyumen, a variant of the Tobol-Irtysh dialect of the Siberian Tatar language.

Literature

  • Томилов Н.А. Этническая история тюркоязычного населения Западно-Сибирской равнины конца XVI – начала XX в. – Новосибирск: Изд-во Новосиб. ун-та, 1992. – 271 с.