The first historical mention of the Turks is in Chinese accounts of a great empire established by a confederation of nomads in the 6th century AD. Stretching from north of the Great Wall in the east to the Black Sea in the west, the empire is known to the Chinese as T'u Küe and to the Turks themselves as Gök Türk, meaning Sky Turk.

13/11/2013 · So the Turks, under that name, appear in history as independent actors in the 550s of the Common Era. Now, of course that doesn’t mean that there weren’t Turkic people there before then, but we don’t have historical documentation of it.

Turkic peoples, any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic family within the Altaic language group. They are historically and linguistically connected with the Tujue , the name given by the Chinese to the nomadic people who in the 6th century ce founded an empire stretching from what is now Mongolia and the northern frontier of China to …

The history of the Turks covers more than 4,000 years and two continents. They first emerged in Central Asia around 2000 B.C, later spreading throughout Asia and Europe with the establishment of many independent states and empires.

18/01/2012 · History of Turkey Naturally, Anatolia had a history before the Turks, but the region did not become "Turkey" until the Seljuk Turks moved into the area in the 11th century CE. On August 26, 1071, the Seljuks under Alp Arslan prevailed at the Battle of Manzikert, defeating a coalition of Christian armies led by the Byzantine Empire .

The Seljuk Turkish history is significant in that they are regarded as the ancestors of the Western Turks - the modern Turks of today. The Seljuk Turks were the first people to invade Anatolia completely. With the establishment of the Anatolian Seljuk State as part of the Great Seljuk Empire began the Islamic period in Turkey.

03/11/2021 · Rise of the Turks. The ancient Turks were nomadic peoples who lived near the Altai Mountains bordering modern-day Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan in the sixth century. By the eighth century ...