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Slavic and Turkic peoples have been in contact for centuries along the Eurasian Steppe.Medieval Turkic kingdoms like Khazaria, Cumania, Volga Bulgaria, the Kipchak Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Crimean Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate and the Khanate of Sibir were established in parts of present-day Russia, with a continuing demographic, genetic, linguistic and cultural legacy.
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.
Turkic male slaves kept being viewed as ideal for military slavery. Turkic men were popular as slave soldiers in the slave market of the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) and the Rasulid dynasty of Yemen (1229–1454). [22] The majority of the slave soldiers of the Bahri Mamluks in the Mamluk Sultanate were of Turkic origin.
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 ...
The Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or the Turkish people, are the largest Turkic ethnic group, comprising the majority of the population of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. They natively speak the various Turkish dialects. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still exist across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
The Delhi Sultanate was shaped in many ways by the Turkic soldiers. To a significant extent the early Delhi Sultans, themselves of Turkic origin, deliberately sought to import exclusive signs of "Turkicness". [4] The Persian Chroniclers had to learn the Turkic language, and the Turkic language spread throughout the Sultanate.
The Pannonian Avars (/ ˈ æ v ɑːr z / AV-arz) were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins. [8] The peoples were also known as the Obri in the chronicles of the Rus, [not verified in body] the Abaroi or Varchonitai [9] (Greek: Βαρχονῖται, romanized: Varchonitai), or Pseudo-Avars [10] in Byzantine sources, and the Apar (Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰺) to the ...
1993: In 1993, the Turkish Culture and Arts Joint Administration was established in Almaty, which provides cooperation in the fields of culture and arts of Turkic Speaking Countries. 1993: The first Turkic Congress, which was a cultural, economic and political forum and was attended by all Turkic states and communities and related communities.