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The coat of arms of Tatarstan is an ancient Turkic and Bolgar symbol called Aq Bars or White Bars, and has been in use since 1991. This symbol was used in Volga Bulgaria (Bil�r), Khanate of Kazan (Qazan) - historical states on the Tatarstan's territory - as state symbol. White Bars comes frome one of the Bulgar tribes - Barsil tribe's tothem. By legend, Barsils founded Bil�r city in Volga Bulgaria.

The author of current coat of arms is an artist Rif Z�gri ulı F�xretdinev /reef zag_REE oo_LE fakh_ret_dee_NEF/.

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Tatarstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1394 words)
	The Republic of Tatarstan or Tataria (Russian: Респу́блика Татарста́н; Tatar: Cyrillic: Татарстан Республикасы, Latin: Tatarstan Respublikası) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic).
	Tatarstan was conquered by the troops of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in the 1550s, with Kazan being taken in 1552.
	Tatarstan is one of the most economically developed federal subjects of Russia; it is also the second most industrialized federal subject after Samara Oblast.

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