Sagay

people

Also known as: Sagai

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The Sagai are a people primarily found on the Abakan River. They are composed of the Beltir, the Koibal, and other groups who speak a Turkic dialect. The term "Sagai" can refer to the collective group or an individual member of this people.1

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The Sagay, of heterogeneous ethnic composition and origin, changed from hunting and fishing to farming and stockbreeding. The Beltir (meaning “river-mouth people”), famed as trappers and as smiths, have also become farmers and stockbreeders. The Koybal, not a tribe in the ethnographic sense but a territorial…
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The Sagay, of heterogeneous ethnic composition and origin, changed from hunting and fishing to farming and stockbreeding. The Beltir (meaning “river-mouth people”), famed as trappers and as smiths, have also become farmers and stockbreeders. The Koybal, not a tribe in the ethnographic sense but a territorial…
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