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António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jul 2009Mishars are a Tatar ethnic group inhabiting originally the right bank of Volga river up to the right bank of Oka river in the north.
Forced migration relocated them first to Bashkiria and Ural region, then to the territories of Niznyi Novgorod, Penza and Ulyanovsk oblasti, where most live today.
It is believed the ethnos was formed by the complicated mixing of Kipchak, Bolgar, Magyar, Nogay and Ugric elements
They speak misharian dialect of the Tatar language.
According to the census of 1926 there were c.200000 Mishars then.
Present population
is unknown.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 21 Jul 2009
The proposed flag of Misharistan is a horizontal tricolor of green,
white and purple.
The white band is of 1/5 of the width of the flag located between the
green and purple
bands of equal width. Ratio of the flag is 1:2.
Meaning of the colors is described as:
Among the sources are:
http://forum.tatar.info/index.php?showtopic=5399 and
http://www.islamnn.ru/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2047
Chrystian Kretowicz, 21 Jul 2009