Chats (subgroup)
 Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Russia | 1000-2000 |
| Languages | |
| Chat dialect of Siberian Tatar, Russian, Tatar | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam, Shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Siberian Tatars | |
The Chats or Chat Tatars (Siberian Tatar: Tsat sybyrlar) are one of the three subgroups of Tom Tatar group of Siberian Tatars. Their traditional areas of settlement are on the rivers Ob, Chick, Uen', and Chaus in Kozhevnikovsky District, Tomsk Oblast, and in Kolyvansky and Moshkovsky districts, Novosibirsk Oblast since the 8th century, later also on the territory of modern Shegarka, Tomsk, Kochenjovskogo, Bolotninskogo, Novosibirsk, Toguchinskogo, Iskitimskogo, Orda areas, and in the cities Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Berdsk.
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