Idel-Ural ( Tatar : Идел-Урал , romanized: Idel-Ural , Russian : Идель-Урал ), literally Volga-Ural , is a historical region in Eastern Europe , in what is today Russia . The name literally means Volga - Urals in the Tatar language . The frequently used Russian variant is Volgo-Uralye ( Russian : Волго-Уралье ). The term Idel-Ural is often used to designate 6 republics of Russia of this region: Bashkortostan , Chuvashia , Mari El , Mordovia , Tatarstan and Udmurtia , especially in Tatar-language literature or in the context of minority languages.
5-722: The Volga Turki language was a literary language used by some ethnic groups of the Volga-Ural region ( Tatars and Bashkirs ) from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Volga Turki is a member of the Kipchak (or Northwestern) group of Turkic languages , although it is partly derived from the ancient Bulgar language (the first poem, considered to be written by Qul Ghali in Volga Turki dates back to Volga Bulgaria 's epoch). It included many Persian and Arabic loans. In its written form
10-700: The Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century, the region was dominated by native Uralic tribes and a succession of Turkic -led empires, such as Volga Bulgaria , the Khazars , the Golden Horde and the Khanate of Kazan . At the time of Peter the Great 's death, in the early 18th century, the region had been made up of roughly 1 million people, with around half being Tatars , Chuvash , and Bashkirs . This Russian location article
15-452: The language was spelled uniformly among different ethnic groups, speaking different Turkic languages of the Kipchak group, but pronunciation differed from one people to another, approximating to the spoken language, making this written form universal for different languages. The main reason for this universal usage was that the principal differences between the languages of the Kipchak group are in
20-567: The pronunciation of the vowels, which was not adequately represented by the Arabic script . The language formerly used the Arabic script and later its variant İske imlâ . The Volga Turki language is a language of Idel-Ural poetry and literature. With the Ottoman Turkish , Azeri , Kipchak , Khaqani Turkic and Chagatai , they were the only Turkic literary languages used in the Middle Ages. It
25-480: Was actively used in publishing until 1905, when the first Tatar and Bashkir newspaper started being published in modern Tatar and Bashkir language , which until then had been used only in a spoken form. Idel-Ural Idel-Ural is at the center of the Volga Federal District (Поволжье, Povolzhye ). The major religions in the region are Islam and Orthodox Christianity . Before being conquered by
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