Biltir

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The Turkic Biltir ( Russian Бельтиры ; Biltiren) are a tribe of than today Khakassians designated ethnic group of the Russian Republic of Khakassia (Southern Siberia ). They emerged from the mixture of Khakass and Tuvinians . The Biltir specialized in blacksmithing until the 19th century .

See also: Turkic languages

literature

  • Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 2 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1962, col. 321. (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James R. Millar, Sharon L. Wolchik (Eds.): The Social Legacy of Communism, Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, reprinted 1997, ISBN 0-521-46182-0 . P. 70.