Crimean Karaites
The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar (Crimean Karaim: Кърымкъарайлар, Qrımqaraylar, singular къарай, qaray; Trakai dialect: karajlar, singular karaj; Hebrew: קראי מזרח אירופה; Crimean Tatar: Qaraylar; Yiddish: קרימישע קאַראַיִמער, romanized: krimishe karaimer), also known as Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnicity of Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crimea. "Karaim" is a Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and Lithuanian name for the community.
Karaite men in traditional garb, Crimea, 19th century. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,600+ | |
| Israel | ~500 |
| Ukraine (excluding Crimea) | 481 |
| Crimea | 295 |
| Poland | 346 |
| Kazakhstan | 231 |
| Russia (excluding Crimea) | 215 |
| Lithuania | 192 |
| Languages | |
| Karaim, Crimean Tatar, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Karaite Judaism, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Karaite Jews, Krymchaks, Samaritans, Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Crimean Tatars, Turkic peoples | |
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