...The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. Turkic people, Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Academic Edition, 2008 They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Azerbaijani, Kazakhs, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Turkish people, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbeks, and as well as past civilizations such as the Huns, Bulgars, Kumans, Avars, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans, Mamluks, Timurids, and possibly the Xiongnu." Timur", The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001–05, Columbia University Press.Encyclopaedia Britannica article: Consolidation & expansion of the Indo-Timurids, Online Edition, 2007. Read full entry
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- 1.Turkic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Additionally, Turkic peoples are found within Crimea, East Turkistan region of ... The Turkic peoples and the related groups migrated west towards Eastern Europe, ...
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- Turkic n. A subfamily of the Altaic language family that includes Turkish. adj. Of or relating to Turkic or the peoples who speak Turkic
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Why Do the Turkic Peoples Look Even the Seljuk and Ottoman
Turks look different. By the
Turkic peoples I mean the
Turkish peoples stretching
from Turkey all the way to
Uighur Province in China
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Think about the geographic area you are talking about. It is kind of like asking, "Why do African people look dissimilar?" Even Chinese have lots of variation. But, to give an idea of some reason for why Turkic people in certain places tend to have certain features, basically note that any population tends to mix with the local population. So, obviously Turks in Iran might resemble Iranians a little more than Turks in China (though, I must say that Uighurs have a surprising amount of Caucasoid resemblance given their location). Turks in Turkey will then clearly have mixed with the various native Anatolian populations, not to mention Ottoman populations in general. Then again, I might have a hard time differentiating between a Kirgiz Turk and a Turk from Kazakhstan, or even between a Turkmen and an Ozbek Turk. Interestingly, last summer a Ukrainian physicist passing by was so curious about where I was from, and when I finally answered "Turkey", he noted that I look "much more Turkmen than Ozbek". He explained that Turkmen tend to have narrower faces and finer features than Ozbeks, whom he said have very round faces and much more pronounced Asiatic features. But, I know some Iranian Turkmen with extremely round faces, some with super slanted (though blue!) eyes. My mom-in-law told me that my halalar (father's sisters) look "tam Selcuklu" (exactly Selcuk), but I am not exactly sure what that entails either. Add: Per Fidget, I would also like to note that although Turks are clearly a "mixed" population, it is not obvious exactly *when* all the mixing occurred. We have buffered Caucasians and Asians for millenia, which can also be seen from some fair and Persian-featured Uighur Turks all the way in China. I think that, even more than the post-Ottoman mixing with the West, a DNA test across the board (Anatolia through the steppes, to the end of Siberia) would be likely to reveal variation (from Caucosoid features and coloring to Mongolian features and coloring) amongst Turkic populations that goes back a long long time. I am curious: Can anyone refute or support this now? Add: Oekaki, you are right about big cities and the coasts, but some Central Anatolian villages are still fairly Turkic. At least my father's and buyuk-anneanne's villages were known to be Turkmen, Afsar, and Karamanoglu (in Konya and near Karaman). My mom's father and maternal grandfather are a different story though since they were not of rural origin (thus I too am mixed). So, Turkish people tend to be mixed in the cities would be more accurate to say, I think. |
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Briefly describe the Turkic Please briefly describe the
Turkic peoples.. I can't find
anything about them!
can you describe what a
bureaucracy of merit is also?
thanks!
i will pick best answer asap~~
10 points!!
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The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family.[5] They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Azerbaijani, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish people, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbeks and as well as past civilizations such as the Xiongnu, Cumans, Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans and Timurids.[6][7][5] Many of the Turkic peoples have their homelands in Inner Asia, where the Turkic peoples originated from, but since then Turkic languages have spread, through migrations and conquests, to other locations including present-day Turkey. While the term Turk may refer to a member of any Turkic people, the term Turkish usually refers specifically to the people and language of Turkey.Ekrem Akurgal was a famous Turkic |
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Why does some Celtic music and |
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I have heared quite a lot of Turkic music but I never noticed similitarities between Celtic music. Which artists do you think sound similar? |
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