Karachays
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The Karachay are a Turkic people of the Ciscaucasus, primarily living in the Russian republic of Karachay-Cherkessia.
In 1943, the Karachay people were forcibly resettled to Karaganda area of Kazakhstan. During the Khrushchev times they were resettled to the Kuban River basin
The Karachay dialect of Karachay-Balkar language is of the Northwestern branch of Turkic languages. The Karachay are predominantly Sunni Muslim. They often fuse pre-islamic pagan traditions with that of Islam.
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