Abstract
The centuries-old Turkmen community of Stavropol' Krai in southern Russia, while currently numbering only about 15,000 people, is an integral part of the famously diverse ethnolinguistic landscape of the North Caucasus. To the extent that Euro-Atlantic scholars have noted the existence of this community at all, their comments have been rather cursory and dismissive, and it has been claimed that the North Caucasus Turkmen (virtually alone among the dozens of similarly small ethnic groups of the region) have never published anything in their own language. Intensive investigations in the bibliographic record (and in secondary sources in Russian, Turkish, and Turkmen) show that this is not actually the case, and that the North Caucasus Turkmen do have a modest record of Turkmen-language publishing stretching back a century or more.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1150-1177 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Nationalities Papers |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- North Caucasus
- Turkmen
- diaspora
- identity
- libraries
- scholarship
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- History
- Political Science and International Relations