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Tennis star Dinara Safina describes her religion as Tartar. Is she a muslim or a Christian or of a different religion altogether?

pirwany Tue 13/05/08 13:18

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Octavius
Tue 13/05/08
13:31

Primarliy it is an ethnic group.

The name Tatars was originally applied to both the Turkic and Mongol tribes which invaded Europe six centuries ago, and gradually extended to the Turkic tribes mixed with Mongolian or Uralic-speaking peoples in Siberia. It is used at present in two senses:

Quite loosely, to designate any of the Muslim tribes whose ancestors may have spoken Uralic or Altaic languages. Thus some writers talk of the Manchu Tatars.

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In a more restricted sense, to designate Muslim Turkic-speaking tribes, especially in Russia, who never formed part of the Seljuk or Ottoman Empire, but made independent settlements and remained more or less cut off from the politics and civilization of the rest of the Islamic world.

Dinara is a Russian of Tatar ethnicity.

123everton
Tue 13/05/08
13:42

Tatar is also the patron saint of dentists.
Forgive me, it's the change in the weather, I may have sun stroke.

Octavius
Tue 13/05/08
13:44

Really?

Not the patron saint of saying goodbye then?

squarebear
Tue 13/05/08
13:45

I thought it was something that went nicely with fish?

123everton
Tue 13/05/08
13:48

Lol

Clanad
Tue 13/05/08
14:12

...and there's me thinking it's a severely undercooked steak...

pirwany
Tue 13/05/08
16:23

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