Chat Tatars

Chats

Cattyr, Цаттыр
Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799.
Regions with significant populations
Russia	2100
Languages
Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
other Siberian Tatars

The Chats (Tatar: чат татарлары, Siberian Tatar: цат татарлар, цаттыр, чатар) are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chik, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarsky, Tomsky, Kochenyovsky, Bolotninsky, Novosibirsky, Toguchinsky, Iskitimsky, Ordynsky districts, and in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk.

The Chats (along with other related groups) are Sunni Muslims.

Sources

• Forsyth, James (8 September 1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780521477710.