Flag of the Nogai people

The Nogai, also spelled Nogay, Noghai, and often called the Caucasian Mongols ("Caucasian" referring to their geographical position in the Caucasus mountains, not to their ethnicity), are a Turkic people and an important ethnic group in the Daghestan region who speak the Turkic Nogai language. They are related to the Crimean Tatars. Flag of the Nogai people by Jaume Ollé, 28 Oct 1996 Source: http://www. ... Flag of the Nogai people by Jaume Ollé, 28 Oct 1996 Source: http://www. ... The Caucasus , a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... This article or section should be merged with ethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. ... This is the disambiguation page for the terms Turk, Turkey, Turkic, and Turkish. ... The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... Nogay, also Nogai or Nogai Tatar, is generally classified into the Aralo-Caspian branch of Northwestern Turkic, or Kypchak languages. ... Flag of the Crimean Tatars The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar aka Qırımtürk, Pl. ...

The Nogai are descendants of Kipchaks who mingled with their Mongol conquerors and formed the Nogai Horde. Most Nogai are Sunni Muslims. They have poor beard growth, and are shorter than most people of the Caucasus. The average height for males is 160 cm. They often have almond-shaped eyes, flat faces, high noses, and sometimes blue eyes. The name Nogai is derived from Nogai Khan, a general of the Golden Horde. Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... Caucasian Mongols The Nogai Horde is the Mongol horde that controlled the Caucasus, when the Mongol arrived in the region. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Nogai Khan aka Kara Nogay (died 1299) was a Khan of the Golden Horde and a great-grandson of Genghis Khan. ... This article refers to the Mongol state in what is now Russia. ...

Some Nogai Turks were obliged by the Kazakhs to emigrate to the Black Sea coast of Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. An estimated 90,000 Nogai live in Turkey today; they mainly settled in Ceyhan/Adana, Ankara and Eskisehir provinces, however they have not maintained the Nogai language or culture, with the exception of 'Nogai tea' -- a drink prepared by boiling milk and tea together with butter, salt and pepper. A Kazakh and his camel The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazak or Qazaq), (in Kazakh: Қазақ [qɑzɑq]; in Russian: Казах; English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic-Mongol people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Russia and China). ... Map of the Black Sea. ...