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Bashkortostan (Bashkiria) is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe.

It is the seventh-most populous federal subject in Russia and the most populous republic. Its capital and largest city is Ufa.

After Kazan fell to Ivan the Terrible in 1554–1555, representatives of Bashkir tribes approached the Tsar with a request to voluntarily join Muscovy.

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