The Tuva and the Altay people are culturally close to Mongols, but speak Turkic languages.

*" Ancient spirit and might preserved by indigenous people of Altay.

The Altay people have a legend about the name of the lake in their language, which means Golden Lake.

For the obsolete term for the Turkic Altays, see Altay people.

* Altay people

The Turkic ancestors of the Chuvash people are believed to have come from central Siberia, where they lived in the Irtysh basin ( between the Tian Shan and Altay ) from at least the end of the third millennium BC.

Amongst them are small groups ( such as those in Namibia ) and many very large groups ( such as the almost 1 million non-evacuated Germans in Russia and Kazakhstan or the near 500, 000 Germans in Brazil ), groups that have been greatly " folklorised " and almost completely linguistically assimilated ( such as most people of German descent in the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Brazil ), and others, such as the true linguistic minorities ( like the still German-speaking minorities in the USA, Argentina and Brazil, in western Siberia or in Romania and Hungary ); other groups, which are classified as religio-cultural groups rather than ethnic minorities, ( such as the Eastern-Low German speaking Mennonites in Paraguay, Mexico, Belize or in the Altay region of Siberia ) and the groups who maintain their status thanks to strong identification with their ethnicity and their religious sentiment ( such as the groups in Upper Silesia, Poland or in South Jutland in Denmark ).

Category for articles relating to the Altai or Altay, a mountain range and people spead across four countries in Central Asia: Altai Republic and Altai Krai in Russia ; eastern Kazakhstan ; Xinjiang in China ; and western Mongolia.

This belief can be seen with the Tungusic peoples in Southern Siberia and the Altay people.

Of particular interest are the sketches of the Mongols and the people of Samarkand and its vicinity, the account of the land and products of Samarkand in the Ili Valley at or near Almalig-Kulja, and the description of various great mountain ranges, peaks and defiles, such as the Chinese Altay, the Tian Shan, Bogdo Uula, and the Iron Gates of Termit.

Their culture and origins are similar to those of the northern Altay people and some of the ethnic groups of the Khakas.

Those residing in Altai Republic are sometimes grouped together with the Altay ethnic group and those in Kemerovo Oblast are grouped with the Shors ; however, they are recognized as a separate ethnic group by ethnographers.

Altai ( also Altay ) is a language of the Turkic group of languages.

Their language is classified as a southern dialect within the group of dialects called the Altay language.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court — either that on the Imyl river ( near Lake Alakol and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altay ), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal — Andrew found Güyük Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu Khan's agents.

Many of the peaks of the Altay and Tian Shan ranges are snow covered year-round, and their run-off is the source for most of Kazakhstan's rivers and streams.

In the 12th century, however, the Kyrgyz domination had shrunk to the Altay Range and the Sayan Mountains as a result of the rising Mongol expansion.

From the middle ages to early modern period the Khalkha, Uriankhai and Buryats were counted as eastern Mongols while the Oirats, living mainly in the Altay region, belonged to the western Mongols.

The western Mongols include the Oirats in the Russian Altay and the Kalmyks at the northern side of the Caspian Sea, where they make up 53. 3 % of the population of Russia's autonomous Republic of Kalmykia.

Overall, the land slopes from the high Altay Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in the east and the south.

Other important products include the Altay main battle tank, TF-2000 class AAW frigate, Milgem class corvette, TAI Anka UAV, Aselsan İzci UGV, T-155 Fırtına self-propelled howitzer, J-600T missile, T-129 attack helicopter, Roketsan UMTAS anti-tank missile, Roketsan Cirit laser-guided rocket, Panter Howitzer, ACV-300, Otokar Cobra and Akrep, FNSS Pars 6x6 and 8x8 APC, Nurol Ejder 6x6 APC, TOROS artillery rocket system, Bayraktar Mini UAV, ASELPOD, and SOM cruise missile.

Initially signifying only a small coalition of Tiele tribes in Northern China, Mongolia, and the Altay Mountains, it later denoted citizenship in the Uyghur Khaganate.

The top of Belukha in the Altay Mountains in Mongolia is shown here.

Burials at Pazyryk in the Altay Mountains have included some spectacularly preserved Scythians of the " Pazyryk culture " – including the Ice Maiden of the 5th century BC.

The Siberian Tatars occupy three distinct regions — a strip running west to east from Tobolsk to Tomsk — the Altay and its spurs — and South Yeniseisk.

They originated in the agglomerations of various Uralo-Altaic stems that, in the region north of the Altay, reached some degree of culture between the 4th and the 5th centuries, but were subdued and enslaved by the Mongols.

The Altai Mountains ( Altay Mountains ) are a mountain range in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their sources.

The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92 ° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106 ° E. The Western Sayan forms the eastern continuation of the Altay Mountains, stretching for from 89 ° E to the middle of the Eastern Sayan at 96 ° E.

Lake Teletskoye (, Altay:, Altyn-Köl, literally: " Golden Lake ") is the largest lake in the Altay Mountains and the Altai Republic, Russia, and has a depth of up to 325 meters.

It has been known since a long time that there is gold in placers and bedrock deposits in the Altay.

The Ob-Irtysh forms a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altay Mountains.

From its origins as the Kara-Irtysh ( Black Irtysh ) in the Mongolian Altay mountains in Xinjiang, China, the Irtysh flows north-west through Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan, meeting the Ishim and Tobol rivers before merging with the Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, Russia after.

* Altay Coskun: Die gens Ausoniana an der Macht.

In the 2010 Census of Russia, close to 100 people tried to register themselves as ethnic Ainu in the village, but the governing council of Kamchatka Krai rejected their claim and enrolled them as ethnic Kamchadal.

Since the Ainu are not recognized in the official list of the peoples living in Russia, they are counted as people without nationality or as ethnic Russian or Kamchadal.

Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.

* 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.

Auschwitz I served as the administrative center, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70, 000 people, mostly ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.

During the late 2nd century, the main ethnic change in the northern Black sea region was the immigration, from the Vistula valley in the North, of the Goths and accompanying Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and the Hasdingi, a branch of the Vandal people.

The Bambara language is the language of people of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4, 000, 000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali ( it is estimated that about 80 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).

But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".

In Africa, people primarily identified themselves by ethnic group ( closely allied to language ) and not by skin color.

* Banda people, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Sudan

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

The people of Chad speak more than 100 different languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups.

Multi-sited ethnography may also follow ethnic groups in diaspora, stories or rumours that appear in multiple locations and in multiple time periods, metaphors that appear in multiple ethnographic locations, or the biographies of individual people or groups as they move through space and time.

The propagandists who want people to believe " neutral policies " equalized Serbs and Croats severely restricted free speech and did not protect citizens from ethnic attacks.

In 2009, for the first time women ( and ethnic minorities and people living overseas ) were officially recognized as being descendants of Confucius.

Since most people, and most cultures, substantially agree about most pure ethical situations, casuistry often creates ethical arguments that can persuade people of different ethnic, religious and philosophical beliefs to treat particular cases in the same ways.

Symbol of the Brazilian culture, symbol of the ethnic amalgam that characterizes Brazil, symbol of resistance to the oppression, Capoeira definitely changed its image and became a source of pride to Brazilian people.

A certain number of people in any ethnic group are lactose intolerant.

However, the combined effects of ethnic and religious fractionalization, i. e. the more chance that any two randomly chosen people will be from separate ethnic or religious groups the less chance of a civil war, were also significant and positive, as long as the country avoided ethnic dominance.