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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.
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.
Among the peoples that came under Göktürk dominance and adopted its political culture and lingua-franca, the name Turk was not always the preferred identity. Turk, therefore, did not apply to all Turkic peoples at the time, but only referred to the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, while the Western Turkic Khaganate and
The Göktürks eventually collapsed due to a series of dynastic conflicts, but the name "Turk" was later taken by many states and peoples. [citation needed] Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from Turkestan and what is now Mongolia towards Eastern Europe, Iranian plateau and Anatolia and modern Turkey in many waves. The date of the ...
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]
Genetic, archeologic and linguistic evidence links the early Turkic peoples with Northeast Asian millet-agriculturalists, which later adopted a nomadic lifestyle and expanded from eastern Mongolia westwards. An Ancient Northeast Asian origin of the early Turkic peoples has been corroborated in multiple recent studies. Early and medieval Turkic ...
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 ...
Although the majority of French Turks are descend from people from the Republic of Turkey, there has also been significant Turkish migration from other post-Ottoman countries including ethnic Turkish communities which have come to France from North Africa (especially Algeria and Tunisia), the Balkans (e.g. from Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, North ...