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  2. Turkic peoples - Wikipedia

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    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. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.

  3. Corps of Forty - Wikipedia

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    The Corps of Forty (Persian: گروه چهارده, Urdu: گروہِ چالیس), also known as Dal Chalisa or Turkan-e-Chahalgani, was a council of 40 mostly Turkic slave emirs who administered the Delhi Sultanate as per the wishes of the sultan. However, their number was not always 40, Barani clearly mentions that Turkan-e-Chahalgani numbered ...

  4. Slavs - Wikipedia

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    The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...

  5. Volga Tatars - Wikipedia

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    A. Rorlich sees the history as follows: Khazar invasions forced the Bulgars, Turkic people, to migrate from the Azov steppes to the Middle Volga and lower Kama region during the first half of the eighth century. [24] In the period of 10th–13th centuries, other Turkic peoples, including Kipchaks, migrated from Southern Siberia to Europe.

  6. Mamluk - Wikipedia

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    Mamluk or Mamaluk (/ ˈ m æ m l uː k /; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); [2] translated as "one who is owned", [5] meaning "slave") [7] were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and ...

  7. Massachusetts investigators pursue six 8th graders who ... - AOL

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    A group on Snapchat was created overnight from Feb. 8 through Feb. 9 by a group of eighth grade students in the town of Southwick, Massachusetts, located about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of ...

  8. Bulgars - Wikipedia

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    According to linguist and academician Albina G. Khayrullina-Valieva Bulgar language was the first fully proved Turkic language that came into direct contact with South Slavs. [200] The Danubian Bulgars were unable to alter the predominantly Slavic character of Bulgaria, [201] seen in the toponymy and names of the capitals Pliska and Preslav. [181]

  9. Saqaliba - Wikipedia

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    Islamic law banned Muslims from enslaving other Muslims, and there was a big market for non-Muslim slaves on Islamic territory, where European slaves were referred to as saqaliba; these slaves were likely both pagan Slavic, Finnic and Baltic Eastern Europeans [18] as well as Christian Europeans [19] and these slaves where often transported ...