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Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 395 p. Baskurt destanlar 1: Mitolojik destanlar. Translated into Turkish by Feride Aetbaeva, Mehmet Yasin Kaya. Legends of Bashkir Turks: Mythical legends. The Bashkirs are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan, extending on both sides of the Ural Mountains, on the place where Eastern Europe meets North Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the Republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries. Most Bashkirs speak the Bashkir language, which belongs to the Kypchak branch of the Turkic languages and share cultural affinities with the broader Turkic peoples. In religion the Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab. TURKOLOGY Legends Turkic people Central Asia Mythology Steps.