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A caste of people in northwestern India and northern Pakistan. See Jat.
Alternative transliteration of Yat, a letter of old Cyrillic alphabet
Short for Jat Airways, national airline carrier of Serbia and Montenegro

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Categories: Disambiguation The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word casta, meaning lineage, breed or race. ... This page refers to the Jat people of India and Pakistan. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... Yat or Jat (, ) is the 32nd letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and of the sound represented by it. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Jat Airways is the national carrier of Serbia and Montenegro, former national carrier of Yugoslavia, and the sixteenth-oldest airline in Europe. ...

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Jat (8217 words)
	The Jats of India and Pakistan are not to be confused with the peripatetic Jats of Afghanistan, who are a distinct ethnic group.
	The Jats are one of the prosperous in India on a per-capita basis in Jat regions though majority of the wealth belongs to the Popai and Saini population (Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat are the wealthiest of Indian states).
	According to Dr. Raza, Jats appear to be the original race of Sind valley, stretching from the mouth of Indus to as far as the valley of Peshawar.

Jat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2620 words)
	As per the Rajputana gazetteer, the Jagir of village Bamrauli near Agra, was transferred to the Chauhan and Kachwaha Rajputs of Bairath (near Alwar), during the rule of the Tomar Rajputs in Delhi in the 11th century.
	The Bamraulia Jats moved to the region of Gwalior beyond the Chambal river.
	Rustam, a Jat king of the Sogariya clan, laid the foundation of the modern city of Bharatpur.

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