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The
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples are a collection of ethno-linguistic groups of
Central, Eastern, Northern and
Western Asia
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Western Asia as well as parts of Europe
and North Africa. They speak related languages belonging to the Turkic
language family.[27] As racial purity has never been a Turkic
membership criterion, many vastly differing ethnic groups have
throughout history become part of the
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples through language
shift, acculturation, adoption and religious conversion in a process
called Turkification. In their genetic compositions, therefore, most
Turkic groups differ significantly in origins from one group to the
next, lacking one single historical founder population. Despite this,
many do share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics,
including certain cultural traits, some ancestry from a common gene
pool, and historical experiences. The most notable modern
Turkic-speaking ethnic groups include Turkish people, Azerbaijanis,
Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmen and Kyrgyz people.
Contents
1 Etymology
2 History
2.1 Origins and early expansion
2.2 Middle Ages
2.3 Islamic empires
2.3.1
Muslim

Muslim Turks and non-
Muslim

Muslim Turks
2.3.2 Murals and statues of medieval Turks
2.3.3 Turks in Arabic texts
2.3.4 Turks in European accounts
2.4 Modern history
3 Ethnic groups
4 Geographical distribution
5 International organizations
6 Demographics
7
Minorities

Minorities in Turkic Countries
7.1 Azerbaijan
7.2 Kazakhstan
7.3 Kyrgyzstan
7.4 Turkey
7.5 Turkmenistan
7.6 Uzbekistan
8 Past and Future Population
9 Land and Water Area (Exclude Caspian Sea)
10 Language
11 Religion
11.1 Early
Turkic mythology

Turkic mythology and Tengrism
11.2 Religious conversions
12 Old sports
13 Gallery
13.1 Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes
13.2 Medieval times
13.3 Modern times
14 See also
15 References
16 Further reading
17 External links
Etymology
Map from Kashgari's Diwan, showing the distribution of Turkic tribes.
The first known mention of the term Turk (Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰
Türük[28][29][30] or 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰜𐰇𐰛 Kök
Türük[28][29] Chinese: 突厥, Old Tibetan: duruggu/durgu (meaning
"origin"),[31][32] Pinyin: Tūjué,
Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese (Guangyun):
[tʰuot-küot]) applied to a Turkic group was in reference to the
Göktürks

Göktürks in the 6th century. A letter by
Ishbara Qaghan to Emperor
Wen of Sui in 585 described him as "the Great Turk Khan."[33] The
Orhun inscriptions (735 CE) use the terms Turk and Turuk.
Previous use of similar terms are of unknown significance, although
some strongly feel that they are evidence of the historical continuity
of the term and the people as a linguistic unit since early times.
This includes Chinese records
Spring and Autumn Annals

Spring and Autumn Annals referring to a
neighbouring people as Beidi.[34] During the first century CE,
Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela refers to the "Turcae" in the forests north of the Sea
of Azov, and
Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder lists the "Tyrcae" among the people of
the same area.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] There are references to
certain groups in antiquity whose names could be the original form of
"Türk/Türük" such as Togarma, Turukha/Turuška, Turukku and so on.
But the information gap is so substantial that we cannot firmly
connect these ancient people to the modern Turks.[43][44][45]
Turkologist András Róna-Tas posits that the term Turk could be
rooted in the East Iranian Saka language[46] or in Turkic.[47]
However, it is generally accepted that the term "Türk" is ultimately
derived from the Old-Turkic migration-term[48] 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰
Türük/Törük,[49][50] which means "created", "born",[51] or
"strong",[52] from the
Old Turkic word root *türi-/töri- ("tribal
root, (mythic) ancestry; take shape, to be born, be created, arise,
spring up") and conjugated with
Old Turkic suffix 𐰰 (-ik), perhaps
from
Proto-Turkic *türi-k ("lineage, ancestry"),[49] from the
Proto-Turkic word root *töŕ ("foundation, root; origin,
ancestors"),[53][54] possibly from a Proto-
Altaic

Altaic source *t`ŏ̀ŕe
("law, regulation").[55] This etymological concept is also related to
Old Turkic word stems 'tür' ("root, ancestry, race, kind of, sort
of"), 'türi-' ("to bring together, to collect"), 'törü' ("law,
custom") and 'töz' ("substance").[49]
The earliest Turkic-speaking peoples identifiable in Chinese sources
are the Dingling, Gekun(Jiankun), and Xinli, located in South
Siberia.[56][57] The Chinese
Book of Zhou (7th century) presents an
etymology of the name Turk as derived from "helmet", explaining that
this name comes from the shape of a mountain where they worked in the
Altai Mountains.[58] According to Persian tradition, as reported by
11th-century ethnographer Mahmud of Kashgar and various other
traditional Islamic scholars and historians, the name "Turk" stems
from Tur, one of the sons of
Japheth

Japheth (see Turan).
During the Middle Ages, various
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples of the Eurasian steppe
were subsumed under the identity of the "Scythians".[59] Between 400
CE and the 16th century, Byzantine sources use the name Σκύθαι
(Skuthai) in reference to twelve different Turkic peoples.[59]
In the modern
Turkish language

Turkish language as used in the Republic of Turkey, a
distinction is made between "Turks" and the "Turkic peoples" in
loosely speaking: the term Türk corresponds specifically to the
"Turkish-speaking" people (in this context, "Turkish-speaking" is
considered the same as "Turkic-speaking"), while the term Türki
refers generally to the people of modern "Turkic Republics" (Türki
Cumhuriyetler or Türk Cumhuriyetleri). However, the proper usage of
the term is based on the linguistic classification in order to avoid
any political sense. In short, the term Türki can be used for Türk
or vice versa.[60]
History
Origins and early expansion
Main articles: Turkic migrations, Turkic tribal confederations, and
Nomadic empires
Further information: Xiongnu, Huns, and Göktürks
History of the Turkic peoples
Pre-14th century
Turkic Khaganate

Turkic Khaganate 552–744
Western Turkic
Eastern Turkic
Khazar

Khazar Khaganate 618–1048
Xueyantuo

Xueyantuo 628–646
Great
Bulgaria

Bulgaria 632–668
Danube Bulgaria
Volga Bulgaria
Kangar union

Kangar union 659–750
Turk Shahi

Turk Shahi 665–850
Turgesh

Turgesh Khaganate 699–766
Uyghur Khaganate

Uyghur Khaganate 744–840
Karluk Yabgu State 756–940
Kara-Khanid Khanate

Kara-Khanid Khanate 840–1212
Western Kara-Khanid
Eastern Kara-Khanid
Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom

Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom 848–1036
Qocho

Qocho 856–1335
Pecheneg Khanates
860–1091
Kimek confederation
743–1035
Cumania
1067–1239
Oghuz Yabgu State
750–1055
Ghaznavid Empire 963–1186
Seljuk Empire

Seljuk Empire 1037–1194
Sultanate of Rum
Kerait khanate 11th century–13th century
Khwarazmian Empire 1077–1231
Naiman
Khanate –1204
Qarlughid Kingdom 1224–1266
Delhi Sultanate

Delhi Sultanate 1206–1526
Mamluk dynasty
Khalji dynasty
Tughlaq dynasty
Golden Horde

Golden Horde [61][62][63] 1240s–1502
Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) 1250–1517
Bahri dynasty
Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire 1299–1923
Other Turkic dynasties
in Anatolia
Artuqid dynasty
Saltuqid dynasty
in Azerbaijan
Ahmadili dynasty
Ildenizid dynasty
in Egypt
Tulunid dynasty
Ikhshidid dynasty
in Fars
Salghurid dynasty
in The Levant
Burid dynasty
Zengid dynasty
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The top of Belukha in the
Altay Mountains

Altay Mountains in
Mongolia

Mongolia is shown here.
The mountain range is thought to be the birthplace of the Turkic
people.
Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BCE
It is generally agreed that the first Turkic people lived in a region
extending from
Central Asia
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Central Asia to Siberia, with the majority of them
living in
China

China historically. Historically they were established after
the 6th century BCE.[64] The earliest separate
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples appeared
on the peripheries of the late
Xiongnu

Xiongnu confederation about 200 BCE[64]
(contemporaneous with the Chinese Han Dynasty).[65] Turkic people may
be related to the Xiongnu,
Dingling and Tiele people. According to the
Book of Wei, the
Tiele people
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Tiele people were the remnants of the Chidi (赤狄),
the red Di people competing with the Jin in the Spring and Autumn
period.[66] Turkic tribes such as the
Khazars

Khazars and
Pechenegs

Pechenegs probably
lived as nomads for many years before establishing the Turkic
Khaganate or
Göktürk Empire

Göktürk Empire in the 6th century. These were herdsmen
and nobles who were searching for new pastures and wealth. The first
mention of Turks was in a Chinese text that mentioned trade between
Turk tribes and the
Sogdians

Sogdians along the Silk Road.[67] The first
recorded use of "Turk" as a political name appears as a 6th-century
reference to the word pronounced in Modern Chinese as Tujue. The
Ashina clan migrated from Li-jien (modern Zhelai Zhai) to the Juan
Juan seeking inclusion in their confederacy and protection from the
prevalent dynasty. The tribe were famed metalsmiths and were granted
land near a mountain quarry which looked like a helmet, from which
they were said to have gotten their name 突厥 (tūjué). A century
later their power had increased such that they conquered the Juan Juan
and established the Gök Empire.[68]
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples originally used their own alphabets, like Orkhon and
Yenisey runiforms, and later the Uyghur alphabet. Traditional national
and cultural symbols of the
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples include wolves in Turkic
mythology and tradition; as well as the color blue, iron, and fire.
Turquoise

Turquoise blue (the word turquoise comes from the French word meaning
"Turkish") is the color of the stone turquoise still used in jewelry
and as a protection against the evil eye.
It has often been suggested that the Xiongnu, mentioned in Han Dynasty
records, were
Proto-Turkic speakers.[69][70][71][72][73] Although
little is known for certain about the
Xiongnu

Xiongnu language(s), it seems
likely that at least a considerable part of
Xiongnu

Xiongnu tribes spoke a
Turkic language.[74] However, some scholars see a possible connection
with the Iranian-speaking Sakas.[75] Some scholars believe they were
probably a confederation of various ethnic and linguistic
groups.[76][77] Genetics research in 2003 on skeletons from 2000 year
old
Xiongnu

Xiongnu necropolis in
Mongolia

Mongolia found some individuals with DNA
sequences also present in some modern-day Turks, suggesting that a
Turkish component had emerged in the
Xiongnu

Xiongnu tribe at the end of the
Xiongnu

Xiongnu period.[78][79]
In 2009, archaeologists found Turkic balbals which are 2000 years
old.[80][81]
According to another archeological and genetic study in 2010, the DNA
found in three skeletons in 2000-year-old elite
Xiongnu

Xiongnu cemetery in
Northeast Asia belonged to C3, D4 and R1a. The evidence of paternal
R1a supports the
Kurgan hypothesis

Kurgan hypothesis for the Indo-European expansion
from the Volga steppe region.[82] As the R1a was found in Xiongnu
people[82] and the present-day people of Central Asia[83] Analysis of
skeletal remains from sites attributed to the
Xiongnu

Xiongnu provides an
identification of dolichocephalic Mongoloid, ethnically distinct from
neighboring populations in present-day Mongolia.[84]
Xiongnu

Xiongnu writing, older than Turkic, is agreed to have the earliest
known Turkic alphabet, the Orkhon script. This has been argued
recently using the only extant possibly Xiongu writings, the rock art
of the
Yinshan and Helan Mountains.[85] It dates from the 9th
millennium BCE to the 19th century, and consists mainly of engraved
signs (petroglyphs) and few painted images.[86] Excavations done
during 1924–1925 in
Noin-Ula

Noin-Ula kurgans located in the
Selenga

Selenga River in
the northern Mongolian hills north of
Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar produced objects
with over 20 carved characters, which were either identical or very
similar to the runic letters of the Turkic
Orkhon script

Orkhon script discovered in
the Orkhon Valley.[87]
The
Hun

Hun hordes ruled by Attila, who invaded and conquered much of
Europe
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Europe in the 5th century, might have been Turkic and descendants of
the Xiongnu.[65][88][89] Some scholars regard the
Huns

Huns as one of the
earlier Turkic tribes, while others view them as Proto-Mongolian in
origin.[90]
Linguistic

Linguistic studies by
Otto Maenchen-Helfen and others have
suggested that the language used by the
Huns

Huns in
Europe
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Europe was too little
documented to be classified, but may have been an Indo-European
language. Nevertheless, many of the proper names used by
Huns

Huns appear
to be Turkic in origin.[91][92] In the first half of the first
millennium, mass-migrations to distant places were common,
geographical borders were fluid and cultural identity was more likely
to change dramatically during the lifetime of an individual, relative
to the modern era. These factors also made it more likely that the
Huns

Huns were, initially at least, closely related to the Turkic peoples.
In the 6th century, 400 years after the collapse of northern Xiongnu
power in Inner Asia, the
Göktürks

Göktürks assumed leadership of the Turkic
peoples. Formerly in the
Xiongnu

Xiongnu nomadic confederation, the Göktürks
inherited their traditions and administrative experience. From 552 to
745,
Göktürk

Göktürk leadership united the nomadic Turkic tribes into the
Göktürk Empire

Göktürk Empire on
Mongolia

Mongolia and Cental Asia. The name derives from
gok, "blue" or "celestial". Unlike its
Xiongnu

Xiongnu predecessor, the
Göktürk

Göktürk
Khanate had its temporary khans from the
Ashina clan who
were subordinate to a sovereign authority controlled by a council of
tribal chiefs. The
Khanate retained elements of its original
shamanistic religion, Tengriism, although it received missionaries of
Buddhist
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Buddhist monks and practiced a syncretic religion. The
Göktürks

Göktürks were
the first Turkic people to write
Old Turkic in a runic script, the
Orkhon script. The
Khanate was also the first state known as "Turk".
It eventually collapsed due to a series of dynastic conflicts, but
many states and peoples later used the name "Turk".
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from
Turkestan

Turkestan and
present-day
Mongolia

Mongolia towards Eastern Europe, the
Iranian plateau

Iranian plateau and
Anatolia

Anatolia (modern Turkey) in many waves. The date of the initial
expansion remains unknown. After many battles, they established their
own state and later constructed the Ottoman Empire. The main migration
occurred in medieval times, when they spread across most of Asia and
into
Europe
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Europe and the Middle East.[68] They also took part in the
military encounters of the Crusades.[93]
Later
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples include the
Karluks

Karluks (mainly 8th century),
Uyghurs, Kyrgyz, Oghuz (or Ğuz) Turks, and Turkmens. As these peoples
founded states in the area between
Mongolia

Mongolia and Transoxiana, they came
into contact with Muslims, and most of them gradually adopted Islam.
Small groups of Turkic people practice other religions, including
Christians,
Jews

Jews (Khazars), Buddhists, and Zoroastrians.
Other traditions see
Togarmah

Togarmah (grandson of
Japheth

Japheth the son of Noah) as
the ancestor of the Turkic peoples. For example, The French
Benedictine monk and scholar Calmet (1672–1757) places
Togarmah

Togarmah in
Scythia

Scythia and Turcomania (in the Eurasian Steppes and Central Asia).[94]
Also in his letters, King Joseph ben Aaron, the ruler of the Khazars
in the mid-10th century, writes:
"You ask us also in your epistle: "Of what people, of what family, and
of what tribe are you?" Know that we are descended from Noach's son
Japhet, through his son Gomer through his son Togarmah. I have found
in the genealogical books of my ancestors that
Togarmah

Togarmah had ten sons.
These are their names:[95]
the eldest was Ujur (Agiôr – Uyghurs),
the second Tauris (Tirôsz – Tauri),
the third Avar (Avôr – Pannonian Avars),
the fourth Uauz (Ugin – Oghuz),
the fifth Bizal (Bizel – Pecheneg),
the sixth Tarna,
the seventh
Khazar

Khazar (Khazar),
the eighth Janur (Zagur),
the ninth Bulgar (Balgôr – Bulgar),
the tenth Sawir (Szavvir/Szabir – Sabir)."
Jewish

Jewish sources also list
Togarmah

Togarmah as the father of the Turkic peoples:
The medieval
Jewish

Jewish scholar:
Joseph ben Gorion

Joseph ben Gorion lists in his Josippon
(c. 10th century) the ten sons of Togarma as follows:
Kozar (the Khazars)
Pacinak (the Pechenegs)
Aliqanosz (the Alans)
Bulgar (the Bulgars)
Ragbiga (Ragbina, Ranbona)
Turqi (possibly the Göktürks)
Buz (the Oghuz)
Zabuk
Ungari (either the Hungarians or the Oghurs/Onogurs)
Tilmac (Tilmic/Tirôsz – Tauri)."
The
Chronicles of Jerahmeel lists them as:[96]
Cuzar (the Khazars)
Pasinaq (the Pechenegs)
Alan (the Alans)
Bulgar (the Bulgars)
Kanbinah
Turq (possibly the Göktürks)
Buz (the Oghuz)
Zakhukh
Ugar (either the Hungarians or the Oghurs/Onogurs)
Tulmes (Tirôsz – Tauri)
Another medieval rabbinic work, the Book of Jasher, further
corrupts[citation needed] these same names into:
Buzar (the Khazars)
Parzunac (the Pechenegs)
Balgar (the Bulgars)
Elicanum (the Alans)
Ragbib
Tarki (possibly the Göktürks)
Bid (the Oghuz)
Zebuc
Ongal (Hungarians or Oghurs/Onogurs)
Tilmaz (Tirôsz – Tauri).
Arabic records give Togorma's tribes as:[citation needed]
Khazar

Khazar (the Khazars)
Badsanag (the Pechenegs)
Asz-alân (the Alans)
Bulghar (the Bulgars)
Zabub
Fitrakh (Kotrakh?) (Ko-etrakh. Etrakh means "Turks" [possibly
Gokturks])
Nabir
Andsar (Ajhar)
Talmisz (Tirôsz – Tauri)
Adzîgher (Adzhigardak?).
The Arabic account however, also adds an 11th clan: Anszuh.
Yet another tradition of the sons of
Togarmah

Togarmah appears in Pseudo-Philo,
giving their names as "Abiud, Saphath, Asapli, and Zepthir". The
Chronicles of Jerahmeel, in addition to giving Sefer haYashar
(midrash) the above names from Yosippon, elsewhere lists Togarmah's
sons similarly as "Abihud, Shafat, and Yaftir".
Middle Ages
Al-Mu'tasim
Turkic soldiers in the army of the Abbasid caliphs emerged as the de
facto rulers of most of the
Muslim

Muslim Middle East (apart from
Syria

Syria and
Egypt), particularly after the 10th century. The Oghuz and other
tribes captured and dominated various countries under the leadership
of the Seljuk dynasty and eventually captured the territories of the
Abbasid dynasty and the Byzantine Empire.[68]
Meanwhile, the
Yenisei

Yenisei Kyrgyz allied with
China

China to destroy the Uyghur
Khaganate in 840. The
Kyrgyz people

Kyrgyz people ultimately settled in the region
now referred to as Kyrgyzstan. The
Bulgars

Bulgars established themselves in
between the Caspian and Black Seas in the 5th and 6th centuries,
followed by their conquerors, the
Khazars

Khazars who converted to
Judaism

Judaism in
the 8th or 9th century. After them came the
Pechenegs

Pechenegs who created a
large confederacy, which was subsequently taken over by the
Cumans
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Cumans and
the Kipchaks. One group of
Bulgars

Bulgars settled in the Volga region and
mixed with local
Volga Finns

Volga Finns to become the Volga
Bulgars

Bulgars in what is
today Tatarstan. These
Bulgars

Bulgars were conquered by the Mongols following
their westward sweep under
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan in the 13th century. Other
Bulgars

Bulgars settled in Southeastern
Europe
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Europe in the 7th and 8th centuries,
and mixed with the Slavic population, adopting what eventually became
the Slavic Bulgarian language. Everywhere, Turkic groups mixed with
the local populations to varying degrees.[68] In 1090–91, the Turkic
Pechenegs

Pechenegs reached the walls of Constantinople, where Emperor Alexius I
with the aid of the
Kipchaks

Kipchaks annihilated their army.[97]
Islamic empires
Main articles: Ghaznavids, Seljuk Empire,
Delhi

Delhi Sultanate, Mamluk
Sultanate (Cairo), Timurids, Bahri dynasty, Deccan sultanates, Safavid
Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, and Afsharid Empire
Suleiman I taking control of Moldova.
Crimean Khan,
Mengli Giray at the court of the Bayezid II.
Tamerlane

Tamerlane and his forces advance against the Golden Horde, Khan
Tokhtamysh.
A Mamluk nobleman from Aleppo.
As the
Seljuk Empire

Seljuk Empire declined following the
Mongol

Mongol invasion, the
Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire emerged as the new important Turkic state, that came to
dominate not only the Middle East, but even southeastern Europe, parts
of southwestern Russia, and northern Africa.[68]
The
Delhi Sultanate

Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived,
Delhi-based kingdoms three of which were of Turkic origin in medieval
India. These Turkic dynasties were the Mamluk dynasty (1206–90); the
Khalji dynasty

Khalji dynasty (1290–1320); and the
Tughlaq dynasty

Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414).
Southern India, also saw many Turkic origin dynasties like Bahmani
Sultanate, Adil Shahi dynasty, Bidar Sultanate, Qutb Shahi dynasty,
collectively known as Deccan sultanates.
In Eastern Europe, Volga
Bulgaria

Bulgaria became an Islamic state in 922 and
influenced the region as it controlled many trade routes. In the 13th
century, Mongols invaded
Europe
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Europe and established the
Golden Horde

Golden Horde in
Eastern Europe, western & northern Central Asia, and even western
Siberia. The
Cuman-Kipchak Confederation
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Cuman-Kipchak Confederation and Islamic Volga Bulgaria
were absorbed by the
Golden Horde

Golden Horde in the 13th century; in the 14th
century,
Islam

Islam became the official religion under
Uzbeg Khan

Uzbeg Khan where the
general population (Turks) as well as the aristocracy (Mongols) came
to speak the
Kipchak language and were collectively known as "Tatars"
by
Russians

Russians and Westerners. This country was also known as the Kipchak
Khanate and covered most of what is today Ukraine, as well as the
entirety of modern-day southern and eastern
Russia

Russia (the European
section). The
Golden Horde

Golden Horde disintegrated into several khanates and
hordes in the 15th and 16th century including the Crimean Khanate,
Khanate of Kazan, and Kazakh
Khanate (among others), which were one by
one conquered and annexed by the
Russian Empire

Russian Empire in the 16th through
19th centuries.
In Siberia, the Siberian
Khanate was established in the 1490s by
fleeing Tatar aristocrats of the disintegrating
Golden Horde

Golden Horde who
established
Islam

Islam as the official religion in western
Siberia

Siberia over the
partly Islamized native Siberian
Tatars

Tatars and indigenous Uralic peoples.
It was the northern-most Islamic state in recorded history and it
survived up until 1598 when it was conquered by Russia.
The Chagatai
Khanate was the eastern & southern Central Asian
section of the
Mongol Empire

Mongol Empire in what is today part or whole of
Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan, and
Xinjiang
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Xinjiang ("Uyghurstan"). Like the
Moghulistan

Moghulistan and
Golden Horde, the Chagatai
Khanate became a
Muslim

Muslim state in the 14th
century.
The Timurid Empire were an Uzbek-based Turkic empire founded in the
late 14th century by Timurlane, a descendant of Genghis Khan. Timur,
although a self-proclaimed devout Muslim, brought great slaughter in
his conquest of fellow Muslims in neighboring Islamic territory and
contributed to the ultimate demise of many
Muslim

Muslim states, including
the Golden Horde.
The
Mughal Empire

Mughal Empire was a Turkic-founded Indian empire that, at its
greatest territorial extent, ruled most of the South Asia, including
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India,
Bangladesh

Bangladesh and parts of
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan from
the early 16th to the early 18th centuries. The Mughal dynasty was
founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named
Babur

Babur (reigned 1526–30),
who was descended from the Turkic conqueror
Timur

Timur (Tamerlane) on his
father's side and from Chagatai, second son of the
Mongol

Mongol ruler
Genghis Khan, on his mother's side.[98][99] A further distinction was
the attempt of the Mughals to integrate Hindus and Muslims into a
united Indian state.[98][100][101][102]
The
Safavid dynasty

Safavid dynasty of
Persia

Persia were of mixed ancestry (Kurdish[103] and
Azerbaijani,[104] which included intermarriages with Georgian,[105]
Circassian,[106][107] and Pontic Greek[108] dignitaries). Through
intermarriage and other political considerations, the Safavids spoke
Persian and Turkish,[109][110] and some of the Shahs composed poems in
their native Turkish language. Concurrently, the Shahs themselves also
supported Persian literature, poetry and art projects including the
grand
Shahnama
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Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp.[111][112] The
Safavid dynasty

Safavid dynasty ruled
parts of Greater
Iran

Iran for more than two centuries.[113][114][115][116]
and established the
Twelver

Twelver school of Shi'a Islam[117] as the official
religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning
points in
Muslim

Muslim history
The
Afsharid dynasty
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Afsharid dynasty was named after the Turkic Afshar tribe to which
they belonged. The Afshars had migrated from
Turkestan

Turkestan to Azerbaijan
in the 13th century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the military
commander
Nader Shah

Nader Shah who deposed the last member of the Safavid
dynasty and proclaimed himself King of Iran. Nader belonged to the
Qereqlu branch of the Afshars.[118] During Nader's reign,
Iran

Iran reached
its greatest extent since the Sassanid Empire.
Muslim

Muslim Turks and non-
Muslim

Muslim Turks
The
Muslim

Muslim Kara-Khanid Turks performed a mass conversion campaign
against the
Buddhist
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Buddhist Uyghur Turks during the Islamicisation and
Turkicisation of Xinjiang.
The non-
Muslim

Muslim Turks worship of
Tengri

Tengri was mocked and insulted by the
Muslim

Muslim Turk Mahmud al-Kashgari, who wrote a verse referring to them
– The Infidels – May God destroy them![119][120]
The Basmil, Yabāḳu and Uyghur states were among the Turkic peoples
who fought against the Kara-Khanid's spread of Islam, the Islamic
Kara-khanids were made out of Tukhai, Yaghma, Çiğil and Karluk.[121]
Kashgari claimed that the Prophet assisted in a miraculous event where
700,000 Yabāqu infidels were defeated by 40,000 Muslims led by
Arslān Tegīn claiming that fires shot sparks from gates located on a
green mountain towards the Yabāqu.[122] The Yabaqu were a Turkic
people.[123]
The
Muslim

Muslim Kara-Khanid Turk Mahmud Kashgari insulted the Uyghur
Buddhists as "Uighur dogs" and called them "Tats", which referred to
the "Uighur infidels" according to the Tuxsi and Taghma, while other
Turks called
Persians

Persians "tat".[124][125] While Kashgari displayed a
different attitude towards the Turks diviners beliefs and "national
customs", he expressed towards
Buddhism
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Buddhism a hatred in his Diwan where he
wrote the verse cycle on the war against Uighur Buddhists. Buddhist
origin words like toyin (a cleric or priest) and Burxān or Furxan
(meaning Buddha, acquiring the generic meaning of "idol" in the Turkic
language of Kashgari) had negative connotations to Muslim
Turks.[126][127]
Murals and statues of medieval Turks
Göktürk

Göktürk petroglyphs from
Mongolia

Mongolia (6th to 8th century)
An Uyghur Khagan
Professor James A. Millward described the original
Uyghurs

Uyghurs as
phenotypically
Mongoloid

Mongoloid until they began to mix with the Tarim
Basin's original,
Caucasoid

Caucasoid inhabitants, such as the
Tocharians

Tocharians and
eastern Iranian peoples.[128]
The
Uyghurs

Uyghurs of the
Qocho

Qocho and
Turfan

Turfan – whose ancestors had adopted
the
Buddhism
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Buddhism of the
Tocharians

Tocharians when they settled in the Tarim – were
forcibly converted to
Islam

Islam during a ghazat (holy war) by the Chagatai
khan Khizr Khwaja.[129] After they had converted to Islam, subsequent
generations of
Uyghurs

Uyghurs came to believe, falsely, that the "infidel
Kalmuks" (Dzungars) had built
Buddhist
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Buddhist monuments in the
area.[130][131] The
Buddhist
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Buddhist murals at the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha
Caves were damaged by local
Muslim

Muslim population whose religion
proscribed figurative images of sentient beings; the eyes and mouths
in particular were often gouged out. Pieces of some murals were broken
off for use as fertilizer by the locals.[132]
Turks in Arabic texts
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The Arab
Muslim

Muslim
Umayyads

Umayyads and
Abbasids

Abbasids fought against the pagan Turks
in the
Muslim

Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. The Muslims built ribats
(military fortifications) against the non-
Muslim

Muslim Turks in Transoxiana.
The Medieval
Arabs

Arabs recorded that Medieval Turks looked strange from
their perspective and were extremely physically different from the
Arabs, calling them "broad faced people with small eyes".[133][134]
Medieval
Muslim

Muslim writers noted that
Tibetans

Tibetans and Turks resembled each
other and often were not able to tell the difference between Turks and
Tibetans.[135]
The
Hadith

Hadith collection
Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari records a
Sahih

Sahih
Hadith

Hadith by
Muhammad

Muhammad on the Turks- Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the
Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces
will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be
established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair."
(حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ،
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، حَدَّثَنَا
أَبِي، عَنْ صَالِحٍ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ،
قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى
الله عنه ـ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى
الله عليه وسلم " لاَ تَقُومُ
السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا
التُّرْكَ صِغَارَ الأَعْيُنِ، حُمْرَ
الْوُجُوهِ، ذُلْفَ الأُنُوفِ،
كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ
الْمُطَرَّقَةُ، وَلاَ تَقُومُ
السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا
قَوْمًا نِعَالُهُمُ الشَّعَرُ
".)[136][137][138][139][140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148]
Another
Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari
Hadith

Hadith says – Narrated Abu Huraira: The
Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established till you fight a
nation wearing hairy shoes, and till you fight the Turks, who will
have small eyes, red faces and flat noses; and their faces will be
like flat shields. And you will find that the best people are those
who hate responsibility of ruling most of all till they are chosen to
be the rulers. And the people are of different natures: The best in
the pre-Islamic period are the best in Islam. A time will come when
any of you will love to see me rather than to have his family and
property doubled."(حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو
الْيَمَانِ، أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ،
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ
الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ
رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى
الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ تَقُومُ
السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا
قَوْمًا نِعَالُهُمُ الشَّعَرُ،
وَحَتَّى تُقَاتِلُوا التُّرْكَ،
صِغَارَ الأَعْيُنِ، حُمْرَ
الْوُجُوهِ، ذُلْفَ الأُنُوفِ كَأَنَّ
وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ
الْمُطْرَقَةُ ". "«وَتَجِدُونَ مِنْ
خَيْرِ النَّاسِ أَشَدَّهُمْ
كَرَاهِيَةً لِهَذَا الأَمْرِ، حَتَّى
يَقَعَ فِيهِ، وَالنَّاسُ مَعَادِنُ،
خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ
خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الإِسْلاَمِ."
"وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَى أَحَدِكُمْ
زَمَانٌ لأَنْ يَرَانِي أَحَبُّ
إِلَيْهِ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ
مِثْلُ أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ.").[149]
A
Sahih

Sahih
Hadith

Hadith is also found in
Sahih

Sahih
Muslim

Muslim – Abu Huraira reported
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Last Hour would not come until
the Muslims fight with the Turks-a people whose faces would be like
hammered shields wearing clothes of hair and walking (with shoes) of
hair. (حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ
سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، –
يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ –
عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ
أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ
اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ
تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ
الْمُسْلِمُونَ التُّرْكَ قَوْمًا
وُجُوهُهُمْ كَالْمَجَانِّ
الْمُطْرَقَةِ يَلْبَسُونَ الشَّعَرَ
وَيَمْشُونَ فِي الشَّعَرِ " .).[150]
A
Sahih

Sahih
Hadith

Hadith is also found in
Sunan Nasai

Sunan Nasai – It was narrated from
Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The Hour will
not begin until the Muslims fight the Turks, a people with faces like
hammered shields who wear clothes made of hair and shoes made of
hair." (أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، قَالَ
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ،
عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ،
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه
وسلم قَالَ " لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ
حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ
التُّرْكَ قَوْمًا وُجُوهُهُمْ
كَالْمَجَانِّ الْمُطَرَّقَةِ
يَلْبَسُونَ الشَّعَرَ وَيَمْشُونَ
فِي الشَّعَرِ " .)[151]
A
Sahih

Sahih
Hadith

Hadith is also found in Abu Dawud- Abu Hurairah reported the
Prophet (May peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour will not come
before the Muslims fight with the Turks, a people whose faces look as
if they were shields covered with skin, and who will wear sandals of
hair. (حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ،
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ، – يَعْنِي
الإِسْكَنْدَرَانِيَّ – عَنْ
سُهَيْلٍ، – يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي
صَالِحٍ – عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي
هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى
الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لاَ تَقُومُ
السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ
الْمُسْلِمُونَ التُّرْكَ قَوْمًا
وُجُوهُهُمْ كَالْمَجَانِّ
الْمُطْرَقَةِ يَلْبَسُونَ الشَّعْرَ "
.)[152]
A Da'if
Hadith

Hadith is found in
Abu Dawud – Buraidah said: In the
tradition telling that people with small eyes, i.e. the Turks, will
fight against you, the prophet (ﷺ) said: You will drive them off
three times till you catch up with them in Arabia. On the first
occasion when you drive them off those who fly will be safe, on the
second occasion some will be safe and some will perish, but on the
third occasion they will be extirpated, or he said words to that
effect. (حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ
مُسَافِرٍ التِّنِّيسِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا
خَلاَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا
بَشِيرُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِ،
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ
بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ
النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي
حَدِيثِ " يُقَاتِلُكُمْ قَوْمٌ
صِغَارُ الأَعْيُنِ " . يَعْنِي
التُّرْكَ قَالَ " تَسُوقُونَهُمْ
ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ حَتَّى تُلْحِقُوهُمْ
بِجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِ فَأَمَّا فِي
السِّيَاقَةِ الأُولَى فَيَنْجُو مَنْ
هَرَبَ مِنْهُمْ وَأَمَّا فِي
الثَّانِيَةِ فَيَنْجُو بَعْضٌ
وَيَهْلِكُ بَعْضٌ وَأَمَّا فِي
الثَّالِثَةِ فَيُصْطَلَمُونَ " . أَوْ
كَمَا قَالَ .).[153]
The Arab Muslims identified Banu Qantura' (بنو قنطوراء) as
the Turks.[154][155][156] They were described as the Banu Qantura'
people with wide faces and small eyes,[157] or a people with flat
faces and small eyes[158] they have faces like shields covered with
leather,[159][160][161]
A
Hadith

Hadith is found in
Abu Dawud – Narrated AbuBakrah: The Apostle of
Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Some of my people will alight on
low-lying ground, which they will call al-Basrah, beside a river
called Dajjal (the Tigris) over which there is a bridge. Its people
will be numerous and it will be one of the capital cities of
immigrants (or one of the capital cities of Muslims, according to the
version of Ibn Yahya who reported from AbuMa'mar). At the end of time
the descendants of Qantura' will come with broad faces and small eyes
and alight on the bank of the river. The town's inhabitants will then
separate into three sections, one of which will follow cattle and
(live in) the desert and perish, another of which will seek security
for themselves and perish, but a third will put their children behind
their backs and fight the invaders, and they will be the martyrs.[162]
Turks in European accounts
The Turkomans observe a difference between their children from
Turkoman mothers, and those from the Persian female captives whom they
take as wives, and the Kazakh women whom they purchase from the Uzbeks
of Khiva. The Turkomans of pure race enjoy full privileges, while the
others are not allowed to contract marriages with Turkoman women of
pure blood, but must choose themselves wives among the half-castes and
Kazakh captives.
As there exists a great animosity between the Yamuds and Goklans they
do not intermarry, although they reckon themselves of equally noble
lineage. The same hatred is extended to the Tekke Turkomans, whom the
Goklans and Yamuds, moreover, look upon as their inferiors, being,
according to their genealogies, the descendants of a slave-woman,
whilst they are the posterity of a free-woman. (p. 71)
The more intimate connection of the Astrakhan and Kazan Tartars with
the Mogols can be traced in their features; with the Nogay it is less
visible. In like manner, the Turkomans further off in the desert, and
the
Uzbeks

Uzbeks of Khive, have more of the Mogol expression than the
Turkomans who encamp near the Persian frontier. The frequent
intercourse of the Nogay, in latter years, with the Cherkess, seems to
have improved their race; and notwithstanding the enmity that exists
between the Turkomans and the Persians, it is still not unlikely that
their close vicinity should have produced on the former a similar
effect in a lapse of several centuries. The fact we have seen, that
the Turkomans marry Persian women, when they take them as prisoners.
The Turkoman women are, like the men, tall, and when young,
well-shaped; their faces are rounder than those of the men; the
cheek-bones less prominent; the eyes black, with fine eye-brows, and
many with fair complexion; the nose is rather flat; the mouth small,
with a row of regular white teeth. In a word, a great number of the
younger part of the community might be reckoned as fair specimens of
pretty women. (p. 73)
Bode, C.A. "The Yamud and Goklan tribes of Turkomania". Journal of the
London Ethnological Society, vol. 1, 1848, pp. 60–78.
Modern history
Independent Turkic states shown in red
The
Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire gradually grew weaker in the face of poor
administration, repeated wars with
Russia

Russia and Austro-Hungary, and the
emergence of nationalist movements in the Balkans, and it finally gave
way after World War I to the present-day Republic of Turkey.[68]
Ethnic nationalism also developed in
Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire during the 19th
century, taking the form of
Pan-Turkism

Pan-Turkism or Turanism.
The
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples of
Central Asia
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Central Asia were not organized in nation-states
during most of the 20th century, after the collapse of the Russian
Empire living either in the
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union or (after a short-lived First
East
Turkestan

Turkestan Republic) in the Chinese Republic.
In 1991, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, five Turkic
states gained their independence. These were Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Other Turkic regions such as
Tatarstan, Tuva, and
Yakutia

Yakutia remained in the Russian Federation.
Chinese
Turkestan

Turkestan remained part of the People's Republic of China.
Immediately after the independence of the Turkic states,
Turkey

Turkey began
seeking diplomatic relations with them. Over time political meetings
between the Turkic countries increased and led to the establishment of
TÜRKSOY in 1993 and later the
Turkic Council

Turkic Council in 2009.
Ethnic groups
Turkic ethnic groups are prominent in the world today and there have
been Turkic nations in the past.
The modern list includes:
Altai
Azerbaijanis
Balkars
Bashkirs
Chuvashes
Crimean Karaites
Gagauz
Karachays
Karakalpaks
Kazakhs
Khakas
Krymchaks
Kyrgyz
Nogais
Qashqai
Tatars
Turkmens
Turkish
Tuvans
Uyghurs
Uzbeks
Yakuts
The historical list includes:
Dingling
Bulgars
Alat
Basmyl
Onogurs
Saragurs
Sabirs
Shatuo
Chuban
Göktürks
Oghuz Turks
Kankalis
Khazars
Khaljis
Kipchaks
Kumans
Karluks
Tiele
Turgesh
Yenisei

Yenisei Kirghiz
The origins of the Huns, Tuoba, and
Xiongnu

Xiongnu are unknown but may be of
Turkic ancestry.[27][95][163][164][165]
Geographical distribution
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Descriptive map of Turkic peoples.
Countries and autonomous subdivisions where a Turkic language has
official status and/or is spoken by a majority.
Many of the
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples have their homelands in Central Asia, where
the
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples settled from China. According to historian John
Foster, "The Turks emerge from among the
Huns

Huns in the middle of [the]
fifth century. They were living in Liang territory when it began to be
overrun by the greater principality of Wei. Preferring to remain under
the rule of their own kind, they moved westward into what is now the
province of Kansu. This was the territory of kindred Huns, who were
called the Rouran. The Turks were a small tribe of only five hundred
families, and they became serfs to the Rouran, who used them as
iron-workers. It is thought that the original meaning of "Turk" is
"helmet", and that they may have taken this name because of the shape
of one of the hills near which they worked. As their numbers and power
grew, their chief made bold to ask for the hand of a
Rouran

Rouran princess
in marriage. The demand was refused, and war followed. In 546, the
iron-workers defeated their overlords."[166] Since then Turkic
languages have spread, through migrations and conquests, to other
locations including present-day Turkey. While the term "Turk" may
refer to a member of any Turkic people, the term Turkish usually
refers specifically to the people and language of the modern country
of Turkey.
The
Turkic languages

Turkic languages constitute a language family of some 30
languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern
Europe
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Europe and the
Mediterranean, to
Siberia

Siberia and Western China, and through to the Middle
East.
Some 170 million people have a Turkic language as their native
language;[167] an additional 20 million people speak a Turkic language
as a second language. The Turkic language with the greatest number of
speakers is Turkish proper, or Anatolian Turkish, the speakers of
which account for about 40% of all Turkic speakers.[168] More than one
third of these are ethnic Turks of Turkey, dwelling predominantly in
Turkey

Turkey proper and formerly Ottoman-dominated areas of Eastern Europe
and West Asia; as well as in Western Europe,
Australia
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Australia and the
Americas as a result of immigration. The remainder of the Turkic
people are concentrated in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, China,
and northern Iraq.
At present, there are six independent Turkic countries: Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan; There are
also several Turkic national subdivisions[169] in the Russian
Federation including Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Khakassia,
Tuva, Yakutia, the Altai Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria, and
Karachayevo-Cherkessiya. Each of these subdivisions has its own flag,
parliament, laws, and official state language (in addition to
Russian).
The
Xinjiang
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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western
China

China and the
autonomous region of Gagauzia, located within eastern
Moldova

Moldova and
bordering
Ukraine

Ukraine to the north, are two major autonomous Turkic
regions. The Autonomous Republic of
Crimea

Crimea within
Ukraine

Ukraine is a home of
Crimean Tatars. In addition, there are several communities found in
Iraq, Georgia, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Tajikistan,
Afghanistan, and western Mongolia.
The Turks in
Turkey

Turkey are over 60 million[170] to 70 million worldwide,
while the second largest Turkic people are the Azerbaijanis, numbering
22 to 38 million worldwide; most of them live in
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan and Iran.
Turks in India

Turks in India are very small in number. There are barely 150 Turkish
people from
Turkey

Turkey in India. These are recent immigrants. Descendants
of Turkish rulers also exist in Northern India. Mughals who are part
Turkic people also live in India in significant numbers. They are
descendants of the Mughal rulers of India.
Karlugh Turks

Karlugh Turks are also
found in the Haraza region and in smaller number in Azad Kashmir
region of Pakistan. Small amount of
Uyghurs

Uyghurs are also present in India.
Turks also exist in Pakistan in similar proportions. One of the tribe
in Hazara region of Pakistan is
Karlugh Turks

Karlugh Turks which is direct
descendant of Turks of Central Asia. Turkish influence in Pakistan can
be seen through the national language, Urdu, which comes from a
Turkish word meaning "horde" or "army".
The
Western Yugur at Gansu in China, Salar at Qinghai in China, the
Dolgan

Dolgan at Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia, and the Nogai at
Dagestan

Dagestan in
Russia

Russia are the Turk minorities in the respective regions.
International organizations
Map of TÜRKSOY members.
Further information: Pan-Turkism
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (December
2009)
There are several international organizations created with the purpose
of furthering cooperation between countries with Turkic-speaking
populations, such as the Joint Administration of Turkic Arts and
Culture (TÜRKSOY) and the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking
Countries (TÜRKPA).
The newly established Turkic Council, founded on November 3, 2009 by
the Nakhchivan Agreement confederation, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan and
Turkey, aims to integrate these organizations into a tighter
geopolitical framework.
The
TAKM

TAKM – Organization of the Eurasian Law Enforcement Agencies
with Military Status, established on 25 January 2013.
Demographics
Bashkirs, painting from 1812, Paris
The distribution of people of Turkic cultural background ranges from
Siberia, across Central Asia, to Eastern Europe. As of 2011[update]
the largest groups of Turkic people live throughout Central
Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and
Azerbaijan, in addition to
Turkey

Turkey and Iran. Additionally, Turkic
people are found within Crimea,
Altishahr

Altishahr region of western China,
northern Iraq, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, and the Balkans: Moldova,
Bulgaria, Romania, and former Yugoslavia. A small number of Turkic
people also live in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Small numbers
inhabit eastern
Poland

Poland and the south-eastern part of Finland.[171]
There are also considerable populations of Turkic people (originating
mostly from Turkey) in Germany, United States, and Australia, largely
because of migrations during the 20th century.
Sometimes ethnographers group Turkic people into six branches: the
Oghuz Turks, Kipchak, Karluk, Siberian, Chuvash, and Sakha/Yakut
branches. The Oghuz have been termed Western Turks, while the
remaining five, in such a classificatory scheme, are called Eastern
Turks.
Much of the Turkic population of
Central Asia
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Central Asia has significant
Caucasoid

Caucasoid and
Mongoloid

Mongoloid ancestry. The genetic distances between the
different populations of
Uzbeks

Uzbeks scattered across
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is no
greater than the distance between many of them and the Karakalpaks.
This suggests that
Karakalpaks

Karakalpaks and
Uzbeks

Uzbeks have very similar origins.
The
Karakalpaks

Karakalpaks have a somewhat greater bias towards the eastern
markers than the Uzbeks.[172]
Historical population:
Year
Population
1 AD
2–2.5 million?
2013
150–200 million
The Turkic people display a great variety of ethnic types.[173] They
possess physical features ranging from
Caucasoid

Caucasoid to Northern
Mongoloid.
Mongoloid

Mongoloid and
Caucasoid

Caucasoid facial structure is common among
many Turkic groups, such as Chuvash people, Tatars, Kazakhs, Uzbeks,
and Bashkirs.
The following incomplete list of Turkic people shows the respective
groups' core areas of settlement and their estimated sizes (in
millions):
People
Primary homeland
Population
Modern language
Predominant religion and sect
Turks
Turkey
60
70 M
Turkish
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Azerbaijanis
Iranian Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan
42
30–35 M
Azerbaijani
Shia Islam
Uzbeks
Uzbekistan
32
28.3 M
Uzbek
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Kazakhs
Kazakhstan
15
13.8 M
Kazakh
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Uyghurs
Altishahr

Altishahr (China)
15
9 M
Uyghur
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Turkmens
Turkmenistan
03
8 M
Turkmen
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Tatars
Tatarstan
07
7 M
Tatar
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Kyrgyzs
Kyrgyzstan
026
4.5 M
Kyrgyz
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Bashkirs
Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan (Russia)
009
2 M
Bashkir
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Crimean Tatars
Crimea

Crimea (Russia/Ukraine)
009
0.5 to 2 M
Crimean Tatar
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Qashqai
Southern Iran
009
1.7 M
Qashqai
Shia Islam
Chuvashes
Chuvashia
010
1.7 M
Chuvash
Orthodox Christianity
Karakalpaks
Karakalpakstan

Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan)
007
0.6 M
Karakalpak
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Yakuts
Yakutia

Yakutia (Russia)
007
0.5 M
Sakha
Orthodox Christianity
Kumyks
Dagestan

Dagestan (Russia)
007
0.4 M
Kumyk
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Karachays

Karachays and Balkars
Karachay-Cherkessia

Karachay-Cherkessia and
Kabardino-Balkaria

Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia)
007
0.4 M
Karachay-Balkar
Sunni

Sunni Islam
Tuvans
Tuva

Tuva (Russia)
009
0.3 M
Tuvan
Tibetan Buddhism
Gagauzs
Gagauzia

Gagauzia (Moldova)
009
0.2 M
Gagauz
Orthodox Christianity
Turkic Karaites and Krymchaks
Ukraine
007
0.2 M
Karaim and Krymchak
Judaism
Minorities

Minorities in Turkic Countries
Azerbaijan
Main article: Demographics of Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Main article: Demographics of Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Main article: Demographics of Kyrgyzstan
Turkey
Main article: Demographics of Turkey
Number
Ethnic
Minimum Estimates
Maximum Estimates
Further information
Balkan
1
Albania
1,500,000
5,000,000
Albanians

Albanians in
Turkey

Turkey / Albanians
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
100,000
2,000,000
Bosniaks in
Turkey

Turkey / Bosnians
3
Bulgaria
350,000
750,000
Bulgarians

Bulgarians in
Turkey

Turkey / Pomaks in
Turkey

Turkey / Bulgarians
4
Greece
2,000
30,000
Greeks

Greeks in
Turkey

Turkey /
Pontic Greeks

Pontic Greeks /
Caucasus

Caucasus
Greeks

Greeks / Greeks
5
Serbia
15,000
60,000
Serbs

Serbs in
Turkey

Turkey / Serbs
1
Total
2,000,000
7,900,000
Minorities

Minorities in Turkey
Caucasus
1
Abkhazia
600,000
600,000
Abkhazians

Abkhazians / Abkhaz language
2
Armenia
150,000
5,000,000
Armenians

Armenians in
Turkey

Turkey /
Hidden Armenians
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Hidden Armenians / Armenians
3
Chechnya
100,000
100,000
Chechens

Chechens in
Turkey

Turkey / Chechens
4
Circassia
150,000
7,000,000
Circassians

Circassians in
Turkey

Turkey / Circassians
5
Georgia
100,000
1,500,000
Georgians
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Georgians in
Turkey

Turkey / Georgians
6
Turkey
45,000
2,250,000
Laz people

Laz people in
Turkey

Turkey / Laz people
2
Total
1,100,000
16,450,000
Peoples of the
Caucasus

Caucasus in
Turkey

Turkey / Peoples of the Caucasus
Central Asia
1
Kazakhstan
10,000
10,000
Kazakhs
2
Kyrgyzstan
1,600
1,600
Kyrgyzs
3
Tajikistan
1,000
1,000
Tajiks
4
Turkmenistan
1,500
1,500
Turkmens
5
East Turkestan
50,000
50,000
Uyghurs
6
Uzbekistan
45,000
45,000
Uzbeks
3
Total
120,000
120,000
Central Asian peoples
Turkic peoples
1
Azerbaijan
530,000
800,000
Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis in
Turkey

Turkey / Azerbaijanis
2
Crimea
150,000
6,000,000
Crimean
Tatars

Tatars in
Turkey

Turkey / Crimean Tatars
3
Karachay-Cherkessia
20,000
20,000
Karachays
4
Turkey
40,000
75,000
Meskhetian Turks
4
Total
740,000
6,895,000
Turkic peoples
Iranian peoples
1
Afghanistan
25,000
50,000
Afghans in
Turkey

Turkey / Afghans
2
Iran
500,000
650,000
Iranian diaspora / Persians
3
Kurdistan
13,000,000
23,000,000
Kurds

Kurds in
Turkey

Turkey /
Kurdish population

Kurdish population /
Turkish Kurdistan
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Turkish Kurdistan / Kurds
4
Kurdistan
1,000,000
3,000,000
Zaza
Kurds

Kurds /
Zaza nationalism

Zaza nationalism / Zaza language
5
North Ossetia-Alania
50,000
50,000
Ossetians

Ossetians in
Turkey

Turkey / Ossetians
6
Romani
700,000
5,000,000
Romani people

Romani people in
Turkey

Turkey / Romani people
5
Total
15,300,000
31,750,000
Iranian peoples
European peoples
1
Netherlands
15,000
15,000
Dutch people
2
Germany
50,000
50,000
Germans

Germans in
Turkey

Turkey / Germans
3
Great Britain
35,000
35,000
Britons in
Turkey

Turkey / British people
4
Italy
35,000
35,000
Levantines in
Turkey

Turkey / Levantines (Latin Catholics)
5
Poland
4,000
4,000
Polish diaspora

Polish diaspora / Poles
6
Russia
50,000
50,000
Russians

Russians in
Turkey

Turkey / Russians
6
Total
190,000
190,000
European peoples
Other Minorities
1
African Union
100,000
100,000
Afro Turks

Afro Turks /
African diaspora

African diaspora / Africans
2
Arab League
1,500,000
5,000,000
Arabs

Arabs in
Turkey

Turkey / Iraqis in
Turkey

Turkey / Arabs
3
Assyria
15,000
65,000
Assyrians in
Turkey

Turkey /
Assyrian genocide

Assyrian genocide / Assyrians
4
Israel
15,000
18,000
Jews

Jews in
Turkey

Turkey / Antisemitism in
Turkey

Turkey / Jews
7
Total
1,630,000
5,200,000
Other
Minorities

Minorities in Turkey
37 Group
Grand Total
21,080,000
68,505,000
Minorities

Minorities in Turkey
Turkmenistan
Main article: Demographics of Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Main article: Demographics of Uzbekistan
Past and Future Population
Main article: List of countries by past and future population
Main article: List of countries by future population (United Nations,
medium fertility variant)
List of countries by past and future population provide 1950, 2000 and
2050 population while List of countries by future population (United
Nations, medium fertility variant) provide 2100 population.
Rank
Country
Area
1950
2000
2050
2100
1
Turkey
783,562
21,122,000
65,970,000
89,291,000
87,983,000
2
Uzbekistan
447,400
6,293,000
25,042,000
35,117,000
32,077,000
3
Kazakhstan
2,724,900
6,694,000
15,688,000
22,238,000
24,712,000
4
Azerbaijan
86,600
2,886,000
8,464,000
11,210,000
9,636,000
5
Kyrgyzstan
199,900
1,739,000
4,938,000
7,064,000
9,046,000
6
Turkmenistan
488,100
1,205,000
4,386,000
6,608,000
5,606,000
Total
4,730,462
39,939,000
124,488,000
171,528,000
169,060,000
Land and Water Area (Exclude Caspian Sea)
Main article: Exclusive economic zone
This list includes dependent territories within their sovereign states
(including uninhabited territories), but does not include claims on
Antarctica. EEZ+TIA is exclusive economic zone (EEZ) plus total
internal area (TIA) which includes land and internal waters.
Rank
Country
Area
EEZ
Shelf
EEZ+TIA
1
Turkey
783,562
261,654
56,093
1,045,216
2
Uzbekistan
447,400
0
0
447,400
3
Kazakhstan
2,724,900
0
0
2,724,900
4
Azerbaijan
86,600
0
0
86,600
5
Kyrgyzstan
199,900
0
0
199,900
6
Turkmenistan
488,100
0
0
488,100
Total
4,730,462
261,654
56,093
4,992,116
Language
A page from "
Codex

Codex Kumanicus". The
Codex

Codex was designed in order to help
Catholic

Catholic missionaries communicate with the Kumans.
Main articles:
Turkic languages

Turkic languages and
Proto-Turkic language
Further information: Turkic alphabets (other)
The Turkic alphabets are sets of related alphabets with letters
(formerly known as runes), used for writing mostly Turkic languages.
Inscriptions in Turkic alphabets were found in Mongolia. Most of the
preserved inscriptions were dated to between 8th and 10th centuries
CE.
The earliest positively dated and read Turkic inscriptions date from
c. 150, and the alphabets were generally replaced by the Old Uyghur
alphabet in the Central Asia,
Arabic script

Arabic script in the Middle and Western
Asia, Greek-derived
Cyrillic

Cyrillic in Eastern
Europe
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Europe and in the Balkans, and
Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet in Central Europe. The latest recorded use of Turkic
alphabet was recorded in Central Europe's Hungary in 1699 CE.
The Turkic runiform scripts, unlike other typologically close scripts
of the world, do not have a uniform palaeography as, for example, have
the Gothic runes, noted for the exceptional uniformity of its language
and paleography.[174] The Turkic alphabets are divided into four
groups, the best known of them is the Orkhon version of the Enisei
group. The
Orkhon script

Orkhon script is the alphabet used by the
Göktürks

Göktürks from
the 8th century to record the
Old Turkic language. It was later used
by the Uyghur Empire; a
Yenisei

Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century
Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the
Talas Valley

Talas Valley of
Turkestan

Turkestan and the
Old Hungarian script

Old Hungarian script of the 10th century.
The Turkic language family is traditionally considered to be part of
the proposed
Altaic

Altaic language family.[168][175][176][177]
The various
Turkic languages

Turkic languages are usually considered in geographical
groupings: the Oghuz (or Southwestern) languages, the Kypchak (or
Northwestern) languages, the Eastern languages (like Uygur), the
Northern languages (like Altay and Yakut), and one existing Oghur
language: Chuvash (the other Oghur languages, like Hunnic and
Bulgaric, are now extinct). The high mobility and intermixing of
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples in history makes an exact classification extremely
difficult.
The
Turkish language

Turkish language belongs to the Oghuz subfamily of Turkic. It is
for the most part mutually intelligible with the other Oghuz
languages, which include Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkmen and Urum, and to
a varying extent with the other Turkic languages.
Religion
A shaman doctor of Kyzyl.
Early
Turkic mythology

Turkic mythology and Tengrism
Main articles: Turkic mythology, Tengrism, and
Shamanism

Shamanism in Central
Asia
Pre-Islamic
Turkic mythology

Turkic mythology was dominated by
Tengrism

Tengrism and shamanism.
The chief deity was Tengri, a sky god, worshipped by the upper classes
of early Turkic society until
Manichaeism

Manichaeism was introduced as the
official religion of the
Uyghur Empire

Uyghur Empire in 763. The wolf symbolizes
honour and is also considered the mother of most Turkic peoples. Asena
(
Ashina Tuwu) is the wolf mother of Tumen Il-Qağan, the first Khan of
the Göktürks. The horse and predatory birds, such as the eagle or
falcon, are also main figures of Turkic mythology.
Religious conversions
Mosque

Mosque in Kazakhstan.
Tengri

Tengri Bögü Khan made the now extinct
Manichaeism

Manichaeism the state religion
of
Uyghur Khaganate

Uyghur Khaganate in 763 and it was also popular in Karluks. It was
gradually replaced by the Mahayana Buddhism.[citation needed] It
existed in the
Buddhist
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Buddhist Uyghur
Gaochang

Gaochang up to the 12th century.[178]
Tibetan Buddhism, or
Vajrayana

Vajrayana was the main religion after
Manichaeism.[179] They worshipped Täŋri Täŋrisi Burxan,[180]
Quanšï Im Pusar[181] and Maitri Burxan.[182] Turkic
Muslim

Muslim conquest
in the Indian subcontinent and west
Xinjiang
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Xinjiang attributed with a rapid
and almost total disappearance of it and other religions in North
India and Central Asia. The Sari Uygurs "Yellow Yughurs" of Western
China, as well as the
Tuvans

Tuvans and Altai of
Russia

Russia are the only
remaining
Buddhist
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Buddhist Turkic peoples.
The
Krymchaks

Krymchaks of Eastern
Europe
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Europe (Especially Crimea) are Jewish, and
there are Turks of
Jewish

Jewish backgrounds who live in major cities such as
Istanbul, Ankara and Baku. The
Khazars

Khazars widely practiced
Judaism

Judaism before
their conversion to Islam.[citation needed]
Even though many
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples became Muslims under the influence of
Sufis, often of Shī‘ah persuasion, most Turkic people today are
Sunni

Sunni Muslims, although a significant number in
Turkey

Turkey are Alevis.
Alevi

Alevi Turks, who were once primarily dwelling in eastern Anatolia, are
today concentrated in major urban centers in western
Turkey

Turkey with the
increased urbanism.
The major Christian-
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples are the Chuvash of
Chuvashia

Chuvashia and
the Gagauz (Gökoğuz) of Moldova. The traditional religion of the
Chuvash of Russia, while containing many ancient Turkic concepts, also
shares some elements with Zoroastrianism,
Khazar

Khazar Judaism, and Islam.
The Chuvash converted to Eastern Orthodox
Christianity

Christianity for the most
part in the second half of the 19th century. As a result, festivals
and rites were made to coincide with Orthodox feasts, and Christian
rites replaced their traditional counterparts. A minority of the
Chuvash still profess their traditional faith.[183] Church of the East
was popular among Turks such as the Naimans.[184] It even revived in
Gaochang

Gaochang and expanded in
Xinjiang
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Xinjiang in the Yuan dynasty
period.[185][186][187] It disappeared after its collapse.[188][189]
Old sports
Kyz kuu.
The
Kyz kuu

Kyz kuu (chase the girl) – it has been played by Turkic people
at festivals since time immemorial.[190]
The
Jereed – Horses have been essential and even sacred animals for
Turks living as nomadic tribes in the Central Asian steppes. Turks
were born, grew up, lived, fought and died on horseback. So became
jereed the most important sporting and ceremonial game of Turkish
people.[191]
The kokpar began with the nomadic
Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples who have come from
farther north and east spreading westward from
China

China and Mongolia
between the 10th and 15th centuries.[192]
The jigit which is used in the
Caucasus

Caucasus and
Central Asia
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Central Asia to describe a
skillful and brave equestrian, or a brave person in general.[193]
Gallery
Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes
Images of
Buddhist
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Buddhist and Manichean Turkic
Uyghurs

Uyghurs from the Bezeklik
caves and Mogao grottoes.
Uyghur king from Turfan, from the murals at the Dunhuang Mogao Caves.
Uyghur prince from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur woman from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur Princess.
Uyghur Princesses from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur Princes from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur Prince from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur noble from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur noble from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur donor from the Bezeklik murals.
Uyghur Manichaean Electae from Qocho.
Uyghur Manichaean clergymen from Qocho.
Art from Qocho.
Manicheans from Qocho
Medieval times
Khan
Omurtag

Omurtag of Bulgaria, from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes.
Modern times
Azerbaijani girls in traditional dress.
Young and old Gagauz people.
Turkmen girl in national dress.
Uzbek children in Samarkand.
Turkish women playing backgammon.
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton visits Tatarstan.
Bashkir boys in national dress.
A Chuvash woman in traditional dress.
Uyghur man of Yarkand.
Two Uyghur elders from Turpan.
A female Chuvash dancer in traditional dress.
Tatar woman in the 18th century.
Female Azerbaijani from Baku.
Karachay

Karachay patriarchs in the 19th century
Uyghur farmer, Xinjiang.
Altay man in national suit on horse
Kazakh family inside a Yurt
An Uyghur girl - a natural blond with epicanthic fold (in Xinjiang,
China)
An Yakut women
See also
Por-Bazhyn
Ordu-Baliq
Jankent
Chigils Turks
Dukha people
Bulaqs
Shato
Pan-Turkism
Turkic languages
Turkic migrations
Turkic mythology
Turko-Persian tradition
Turko-Mongol
Turkology
List of ethnic groups
List of Turkic dynasties and countries
European ethnic groups
Peoples of the Caucasus
Kabul Shahi
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H. B. Paksoy (1989). Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian
Rule. AACAR. ISBN 978-0-9621379-9-0.
Amanjolov A.S., "History of the Ancient Turkic Script", Almaty,
"Mektep", 2003, ISBN 9965-16-204-2
Baichorov S.Ya., "Ancient Turkic runic monuments of the Europe",
Stavropol, 1989 (in Russian).
Baskakov, N.A. 1962, 1969. Introduction to the study of the Turkic
languages. Moscow (in Russian).
Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009): Empires of the Silk Road: A History
of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.
Boeschoten, Hendrik & Lars Johanson. 2006.
Turkic languages

Turkic languages in
contact. Turcologica, Bd. 61. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
ISBN 3-447-05212-0.
Chavannes, Édouard

Chavannes, Édouard (1900): Documents sur les Tou-kiue (Turcs)
occidentaux. Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. Reprint:
Taipei. Cheng Wen Publishing Co. 1969.
Clausen, Gerard. 1972. An etymological dictionary of
pre-thirteenth-century Turkish. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Deny, Jean et al. 1959–1964. Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Findley, Carter Vaughn. 2005. The Turks in World History. Oxford
University Press. ISBN 0-19-516770-8; ISBN 0-19-517726-6
(pbk.)
Golden, Peter B. An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples:
Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia
and the Middle East (Otto Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden) 1992)
ISBN 3-447-03274-X
Peter B. Golden (1 January 1992). An Introduction to the History of
the Turkic Peoples: Ethnogenesis and State-formation in Medieval and
Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East. O. Harrassowitz.
ISBN 978-3-447-03274-2.
Heywood, Colin. The Turks (The Peoples of Europe) (Blackwell 2005),
ISBN 978-0-631-15897-4.
Hostler, Charles Warren. The Turks of
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Central Asia (Greenwood Press,
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