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The Mongolic peoples are a collection of East Asian-originated ethnic groups in East, North, South Asia and Eastern Europe, who speak Mongolic languages. Their ancestors are referred to as Proto-Mongols. The largest contemporary Mongolic ethnic group is the Mongols. [1] Mongolic-speaking people, although distributed in a wide geographical area ...
Genetic history of Europe. The European genetic structure today (based on 273,464 SNPs). Three levels of structure as revealed by PC analysis are shown: A) inter-continental; B) intra-continental; and C) inside a single country (Estonia), where median values of the PC1&2 are shown. D) European map illustrating the origin of sample and ...
Albanian (about 9 million) Armenian (about 3.5 million) In addition, there are also smaller sub-groups within the Indo-European languages of Europe, including: Baltic, including Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian and Latgalian. Celtic, including Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic.
Eurasian nomads form groups of nomadic peoples who have lived in various areas of the Eurasian Steppe. History largely knows them via frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia. [1] The steppe nomads had no permanent abode, but travelled from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
The Mongols[a] are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia republics of Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of Mongolic peoples.
Kalmyks (Kalmyk: Хальмгуд, Xaľmgud; Mongolian: Халимагууд, romanized: Khalimaguud; Russian: Калмыки, romanized: Kalmyki; archaically anglicised as Calmucks) are the only Mongolian -speaking people living in Europe, residing in the easternmost part of the European Plain. This dry steppe area, west of the lower Volga ...
Caucasian peoples: Georgians, Persians (in Azerbaijan), Circassians, Tatars, and Ingush. The medieval Georgian village of Shatili. Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region. The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s. North Caucasian peoples (from left to right): Ossetians, Circassians, Kabardians, and a Chechen.
The Mongol Empire c. 1207 A fragment of a medieval Oirat map. The name derives from Mongolic oi < *hoi ("forest, woods") and ard < *harad ("people"), [6] and they were counted among the "forest people" in the 13th century. [7] An opinion believes the name derives from Mongolian word oirt meaning "close (as in distance)," as in "close/nearer ones."