Editing Bashkirs (section)

===Early modern period===
[[File:Башкирские казаки в Европе.jpg|thumb|Bashkir riders]]
[[File:Basjkier in Veessen bij de haven.jpg|thumb|Bashkir sculpture in the haven of [[Veessen]], [[Netherlands]]]][[File:Башкиры в Париже.jpg|thumb|Bashkirs in Paris during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], 1814]][[File:Allan, David - Bashkirs - 1814.jpg|thumb|''Bashkirs'' [[William Allan (painter)|William Allan]], 1814]][[File:Башкиры на празднике Джиен.jpg|thumb|Bashkirs at the Jien festival]]

In the middle of the 16th century, Bashkirs were gradually conquered by the [[Tsardom of Russia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=1-57958-468-3|editor-last=Skutsch|editor-first=Carl|location=New York|pages=188, 189}}</ref> Primary documents pertaining to the Bashkirs during this period have been lost, although some are mentioned in the ''shezhere'' (family trees) of the Bashkir.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}

During the Russian Imperial period, Russians and Tatars began to migrate to Bashkortostan which led to eventual demographic changes in the region. The recruitment of Bashkirs into the Russian army and having to pay steep taxes pressured many Bashkirs to adopt a more settled lifestyle and to slowly abandon their ancient nomadic pastoralist past.<ref name=":0" />

In the late 16th and early 19th centuries, Bashkirs occupied the territory from the river [[Sylva River|Sylva]] in the north, to the river heads of [[Tobol]] in the east, the mid-stream of the river [[Ural River|Yaik]] (Ural) in the south; in the Middle and Southern Urals, the Cis-Urals including Volga territory and Trans-Uralsto, and the eastern bank of the [[Volga River|river Volga]] on the south-west.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}