The Nogais (Nogai: Ногай, Noğay /noˈɣaj/, plural: Ногайлар, Noğaylar /noɣajˈlar/) are a Turkic ethnic group who live in the North Caucasus region. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia and Astrakhan Oblast; some also live in Chechnya, Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria), Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and a …

The Khakas (also spelled Khakass; Khakas: sg. хакас, khakas, тадар, tadar, pl. хакастар, khakastar, тадарлар, tadarlar) are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia.They speak the Khakas language.. The Khakhassian people are direct descendendants of various ancient cultures that have inhabited southern Siberia, including the ...

The Yugurs, Yughurs, Yugu (Chinese: 裕固族; pinyin: Yùgùzú; Western Yugur: Sarïg Yogïr; Eastern Yugur: Šera Yogor), traditionally known as Yellow Uyghurs, are a Turko-Mongolic ethnic group and one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, consisting of 16,719 persons according to the 2000 census. The Yugur live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County …

DNA research investigating the three largest population groups in Bulgaria: Bulgarians, Turks and Roma confirms with Y-chromosmal analysis on STR that there are significant differences between the three ethnic groups. The study revealed a high number of population-specific haplotypes, 54 haplotypes among 63 tested Turkish males from the Bulgarian DNA bank and fathers from …

The Kipchaks or Qipchaks, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were a Turkic nomadic people and confederation that existed in the Middle Ages, inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe.First mentioned in the 8th century as part of the Second Turkic Khaganate, they most likely inhabited the Altai region from where they expanded over the following centuries, first as …

History. The organization was established on 3 October 2009 as the Cooperation Council of the Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council), by the Nakhchivan Agreement signed among Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey.According to Halil Akıncı, the founding Secretary-General of the organization, the Turkic Council became the first voluntary alliance of Turkic states in history.

Etymology. There is no universally accepted etymology of the word Chuvash, but there are three main theories.The popular theory accepted by Chuvash people suggests that Chuvash is a Shaz-Turkic adaptation of Lir-Turkic Suvar (Sabir people), an ethnonym of people that are widely considered to be the ancestors of modern Chuvash people. Compare Lir-Turkic Chuvash: …

معنى كلمة «تتار» التَّتر هي كلمة أطلقها العرب بشكل خاطئ على مجموعة القبائل المغولية التي اجتاحت الشرق العربي وبلاداً إسلامية أخرى في القرنين الثاني عشر والثالث عشر الميلاديين.. معنى كلمة تتار غير محدد، فهي تعني لدى ...

The Tuvans (Tuvan: Тывалар, romanized: Tıvalar) are a Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Siberia who live in Russia (), Mongolia, and China.They speak Tuvan, a Siberian Turkic language. They are also regarded in Mongolia as one of the Uriankhai peoples.. Tuvans have historically been cattle-herding nomads, tending to herds of goats, sheep, camels, reindeer, cattle and …

The Ottoman dynasty (Turkish: Osmanlı Hanedanı) consisted of the members of the imperial House of Osman (Ottoman Turkish: خاندان آل عثمان, romanized: Ḫānedān-ı Āl-i ʿOsmān), also known as the Ottomans (Turkish: Osmanlılar).According to Ottoman tradition, the family originated from the Kayı tribe branch of the Oghuz Turks, under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia in the ...