Turkic-speaking Karaite Jews (in the Crimean Tatar language, Qaraylar) have lived in Crimea for centuries. Their origin is a matter of great controversy. Most modern scientists regard them as descendants of Karaite Jews who settled in Crimea and adopted a Kypchak language.Others [vague] view them as descendants of Khazar or Cuman, Kipchak converts to Karaite Judaism.

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Etymology. The name derives from Mongolic oi ("forest, woods") and ard < *harad ("people"), and they were counted among the "forest people []" in the 13th century. Similar to that is the Turkic aghach ari ("woodman") that is found as a place name in many locales, including the corrupted name of the town of Aghajari in Iran. A second opinion believes the name derives from …

The Uzbeks (Uzbek: Oʻzbek, Ўзбек, اوزبک, plural: Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар, اوزبکلر) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, next to Kazakh and Karakalpak minorities, and are also found as a minority group in: Afghanistan, Pakistan ...

The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks (Old Turkic: ????????????????:????????????????, romanized: Türük Bodun; Mongolian: Хөх Түрэгийн Хаант Улс; Chinese: 突厥; pinyin: Tūjué; Wade–Giles: T'u-chüeh) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia.The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the ...

Population genetics research has been conducted on the ancestry of the modern Turkish people (not to be confused with Turkic peoples) in Turkey.Such studies are relevant for the demographic history of the population as well as health reasons, such as population specific diseases. Some studies have sought to determine the relative contributions of the Turkic peoples of Central …

Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the west; and Siberia to the east. A large Slavic minority is also …

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.. According to the available evidence, the Turkic peoples likely originated in the Altai-Sayan region, and northern and western Mongolia, likely in a contact zone of Uralic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and Indo-European …

Relying on Proto-Turkic lexical items about the climate, topography, flora, fauna, people's modes of subsistence, Turkologist Peter Benjamin Golden locates the Proto-Turkic Urheimat in the southern, taiga-steppe zone of the Sayan-Altai region. Uralic Inherited tree names seem to indicate a Uralic homeland to the east of the Ural Mountains.

The Oghuz or Ghuzz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, romanized: Oγuz, Ottoman Turkish: اوغوز, romanized: Oġuz) were a western Turkic people that spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. In the 8th century, they formed a tribal confederation conventionally named the Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia. The name Oghuz is a Common Turkic word for "tribe".

The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkistan's constitution mandated Islam as the official religion of the Republic, while guaranteeing religious freedom for all people. The safety of the usurers and merchants of Hindu background from India were guaranteed by the British Consul-General.

The 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". Towards the end of the century, the Göktürks Khanate was split in two; i.e., Eastern Turkic Khaganate and …

The Talysh people (Talysh: Tolışon تالشان; Azerbaijani: Talışlar; Persian: تالشان) are an Iranian ethnic group indigenous to a region shared between Azerbaijan and Iran which spans the South Caucasus and the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea. They speak the Talysh language, one of the Northwestern Iranian languages.It is spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian ...

History Mythic: Persians and Arabs. There are two main myths about the origins of the Shirazi people. One thesis based on oral tradition states that immigrants from the Shiraz region in southwestern Iran directly settled various mainland ports and islands on the eastern Africa seaboard beginning in the tenth century, in an area between Mogadishu, Somalia in the north …