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Tatiana Mastyugina, Lev Perepelkin: An Ethnic History of Russia: Pre-Revolutionary Times to the Present. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, S. 80. (books.google.de): The Iranian Peoples (Ossetians, Tajiks, Tats, Mountain Judaists).