Accounts of Ezaari Easwegians

Ezaari or Ezaari Easwegians are an ethnic group of historically related Eurasian peoples who trace their lineage back to the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia and were major inhabitants of the Easwegian Commonwealth of Arctic Europe (1478-1821) and the Khazar Khaganate of the Steppe (650-969). According to the 2024 Easwegian Census, Ezaari make up the largest plurality of the Common Union of Easway with 33.33% of the population. They traditionally speak Ezerryen Easwegian, a Yeniseian-Turkic language that has entered revival after previous extinction following the post-1821 displacement of Ezaari from the Barents Region. Ezaari culturally practice estoteric and folk forms of Christianity though predominately fall into Eastern Catholicism.

The Easwegian Common Union asserts that most Ezaari live as diaspora outside of Easway, with two main characterisations identified: the Biarmian Ezaari and the Vlach Ezaari, who both find common ancestry in the Khazar Khaganate, which collapsed in the late 10th century.

Biarmian Ezaari

The Biarmian Ezaari headed north to the Novgorod Republic following the collapse of the Khaganate, inspired by Greek mythology of an Arctic Hyperborea (Boriopa in Easwegian). The Biarmian Ezaari became dominant players in the Barents Region and formed the independent Easwegian Commonwealth in 1478, lasting until 1821.

Vlach Ezaari

The Vlach Ezaari are members of the ethnic group who, instead of travelling north, instead travelled west after the collapse of the Khaganate into the Pannonian and Balkan Bulgarian Empire. Following the Bulgarian Empire, it is said that Basarab I of Wallachia was part-Ezaari and formed what is now known as Romania.  

Historically, Ezaari have been called many different exonyms, including Arsiyah, Bjarmeland Tatars and Pomor Turks. Though coming to dominate the land of Biarmia in Northern Europe from the late 12th century until the early 19th, Ezaari were not the original Biarmians, which can be credited to various Finno-Uralic tribes, such as the Sámi. The Pomors began to inhabit the regions of Biarmia including the White Sea around the same time as Ezaari and were close sister ethnic groups with close cross-cultural exchange. The term Ezaari comes from Khayezaari, from Persian meaning Clan of Thousands.