Editing Cheboksary (section)

==History==
Cheboksary was first mentioned in written sources in 1469,<ref name="gr">{{cite book|title=Энциклопедия Города России|year=2003|publisher=Большая Российская Энциклопедия|location=Moscow|isbn=5-7107-7399-9|pages=510–512}}</ref> but according to archaeological excavations, the area had been populated much earlier. The site hosted a Bulgarian city of '''Veda Suvar''', which appeared after Mongols [[Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria|defeated major Volga Bulgarian]] cities in the 13th century. During Khanate period the town is believed by some{{Who|date=May 2010}} to have had a [[Turkic language|Turkic]] (probably, [[Tatar language|Tatar]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}) name '''Çabaqsar''' and that the current Russian and English names originate from it. However, in maps by European travelers it was marked as '''Cibocar''' (Pizzigano, 1367), '''Veda-Suar''' ([[Fra Mauro]], 1459). '''Shupashkar''', the Chuvash name literally means the "fortress of the Chuvash".

In 1555, the Russians built a fortress and established a settlement here. In 1625, there were 458 soldiers quartered in Cheboksary, and in 1646 there were 661 males living in the settlement. At the end of the 17th century, Cheboksary was regarded as a major commercial city of the Volga region, and in 1781 it was granted town status<ref name="gr" /> within [[Kazan Governorate]]. In the beginning of the 19th century the population was about 5500, the town had a sawmill and several small manufactures.

In the 16th and the first half of the 17th century the Vvedensky cathedral, four monasteries and eight churches had been built, in the 18th century the stone buildings of treasury and archive, magistracy, court, and ten churches. In 1880, here were counted 783 houses (33 of them from stone), 91 stores, three schools, two hospitals, and one bank.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In the beginning of the 20th century, 5,100 people lived in Cheboksary. In 1965, the population grew to 163,000.