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The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.
240 BC: Great Wall of China started to be built to protect the nation against Inner Asian nomads.; c. 202 BC: Xiongnu chanyu Modu conquered the Hunyu (渾庾), Qushe (屈射), Dingling (丁零), Gekun (鬲昆), and Xinli (薪犁); [5] The Gekun and Xinli would later appear among the Turkic-speaking Tiele people, respectively, as Hegu [6] and Xue.
Authors Joo-Yup Lee and Shuntu Kuang analyzed ten years of genetic research on Turkic people and compiled scholarly information about Turkic origins, and said that the early and medieval Turks were a heterogeneous group and that the Turkification of Eurasia was a result of language diffusion, not a migration of a homogeneous population.
The Western part (inhabited by nomads of Syr-darya and settled peoples of Khwarazm) was called Turkestan (Turk land), although they were both inhabited by linguistically Turkic ethnic groups. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the term Turkestan was also applied to Ferghana and Mawara-an-nahr by the Russians.
Prior to this recruitment agreement, there were fewer than 3,000 people of Turkish origin in Australia. [286] According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, nearly 19,000 Turkish immigrants arrived from 1968 to 1974. [285] They came largely from rural areas of Turkey, approximately 30% were skilled and 70% were unskilled workers. [287]
Turkification of the non-Turkic population derives from the Turkic settlements in the area now known as Azerbaijan, which began and accelerated during the Seljuq period. [13] The migration of Oghuz Turks from present-day Turkmenistan , which is attested by linguistic similarity, remained high through the Mongol period, since the bulk of the ...
Agathias included within Hunnic circle these tribes: the Vurugunds, [a] Ultizurs, as well as the Turkic tribes Cotrigurs and Utigurs. [2] [3] 581 Tardush, the second yabgu in the west, lay siege to Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea. 581 Two rival states in China begin to pay annual tribute to the Turkic Khaganate. 584 Taspar Qaghan dies, civil war ...
The Karluks had adopted and developed the Turkic literary language of Khwarazm, established in Bukhara and Samarkand, which after the Mongol conquest became known as the Chagatai language. [citation needed] Of all Turkic peoples, the Karluks were most open to the influence of Muslim culture.