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and the first Yaik Cossacks, including these Tatars and Russians, existed by the end of the 14th century. These Tatars might be both Chuvash people and Mishari (Meschera in Russian, Misär in Tatar language), the latter had not only Muslims and Jews, but Christians among them to facilitate their merge with Russians. Meschera were important on Don as well. Later, as Pushkin wrote, a lot of Nogai joined Yaik Cossacks.Twenty years after

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