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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.
By the 12th century, Europeans had begun to call the Anatolian region Turchia or Turkey, the land of the Turks. [154] The Turkish society in Anatolia was divided into urban, rural and nomadic populations; [155] other Turkoman (Turkmen) tribes who had arrived into Anatolia at the same time as the Seljuks kept their nomadic ways. [150]
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 Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia.Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed.
The Oghuz Turks take their name from the Turkic word for 'clan', 'tribe', or 'kinship'. As such, Oghuz is a common appellation for many Turkic groups, such as the Toquz Oghuz (nine tribes), Sekiz Oghuz (eight tribes), and Uch Oghuz (three tribes). Oghuz has been used to refer to many different Turkic tribes, causing much confusion.
The proto-Turkic Hsiung-nu were now challenged by other alien groups — proto-Tibetans, proto-Mongol tribes called the Hsien-pi, and separate proto-Turks called To-pa (Toba). Jankowski, Henryk [in Polish] (2006). Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Russian Habitation Names of the Crimea. Handbuch der Orientalistik [HdO], 8: Central Asia; 15.
According to Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer Sergey Tolstov, part of the Kayi tribe moved in the Middle Ages from Central Asia to modern day Ukraine, they are known in the Rus' chronicle as kovuy and kaepichi as one of the tribes that formed the Turkic tribal confederation called the Black Klobuks, [a] who were allies of the Rurik dynasty ...
The Turkic term oğuz or oğur (in z-and r-Turkic, respectively) is a historical term for "military division, clan, or tribe" among the Turkic peoples.With the Mongol invasions of 1206–21, the Turkic khaganates were replaced by Mongol or hybrid Turco-Mongol confederations, where the corresponding military division came to be known as orda.