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MESHCHERYAKS, or MESHCHERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 177 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESHCHERYAKS, or MESHCHERS , a See also:people inhabiting eastern See also:Russia. See also:Nestor regarded them as Finns, and even now See also:part of the See also:Mordvinians (of Finnish origin) See also:call themselves Meshchers. See also:Klaproth, on the other See also:hand, supposed they were a mixture of Finns and See also:Turks, and the Hungarian traveller Reguli discovered that the tatarized Meshchers of the Obi closely resembled Hungarians. They formerly occupied the See also:basin of the Oka (where the See also:town Meshchersk, now Meshchovsk, has maintained their name) and of the Sura, extending See also:north-See also:east to the See also:Volga. After the See also:conquest of the Kazan See also:Empire by Russia, part of them migrated north-eastwards to the basins of the See also:Kama and Byelaya, and thus the Meshchers divided into two branches. The western See also:branch became russified, so that the Meshcheryaks of the governk ments of See also:Penza, See also:Saratov, See also:Ryazan and See also:Vladimir have adopted the customs, See also:language and See also:religion of the conquering See also:race; but their ethnographical characteristics can be easily distinguished in the See also:Russian See also:population of the governments of Penza and See also:Tambov. The eastern branch has taken on the customs, language and religion of See also:Bashkirs, with whom their See also:fusion is still more See also:complete.

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