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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. List of early Slavic peoples - Wikipedia

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    Southern group. Don Slavs; Ulichians , lived around lived around Southern Ukraine and Bessarabia. Ancestors of Ukrainians, and part of Romanians (especially Moldovans). Central group. Radimichians / Radimichs . Ancestors of Belarusians and part of Russians. Mentioned as being a Lyakh tribes.

  6. 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 ...

  7. History of the Balkans - Wikipedia

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    The Slavs migrated from Eastern and Central Europe, those settling in the Balkans and eventually became known as South Slavs. Most still remained subjects of the Roman Empire. The Balkans in 925 AD. The Avars were a Turkic group (or possibly Mongol [26]), possibly with a ruling core derived from the Rouran that escaped the Göktürks. They ...

  8. Bulgarians - Wikipedia

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    The early Slavs emerged from their original homeland in the early 6th century, ... [118] [119] From a limited group of Turkic equestrian nomads, ...

  9. Turkish slaves in the Delhi Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    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.