Chat Tatars

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The Chat Tatars or Chats (Siberian Tatar: цат татарлар, цаттыр^[1], Russian: Чаты) are a subgroups of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk. They live, among others, in the villages of Chernaya Rechka and Takhtamyshevo.

Key Information

Cattyr, Цаттыр
Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799.
Regions with significant populations
Russia	2100 Tomsk Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast
Languages
Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
other Siberian Tatars
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Chat Tatars are divided into two sub-groups: Tom Tatars (Tomsk Oblast) and Ob Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast).^[2] To a significant degree they have been assimilated by Russians (Ob Tatars)^[3] and by other Siberian Tatars,^[4] usually depending on the religion (Christianity vs. Islam).^[5]

Some of Chat Tatars (along with other related groups of Siberian Tatars) are Sunni Muslims.^[6]