SHORS

Shors

Shors or Shorians are a Turkic people in the Kemerovo Oblast in Russia. Their self designation is Шор, or Shor. They were also called Kuznetskie Tatars, Kondoma Tatars, Mras-Su Tatars in some of the documents of the 17th-18th centuries. In the Late 17th century shors converted to animism from shaminism, but most were considered as Orthodox.

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