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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.
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 ...
Ghilman were required to marry Turkic slave-women, who were chosen for them by their masters. [12] Some ghilman seem to have lived celibate lives. The absence of family life and offspring was possibly one of the reasons that ghilman, even when they attained power, generally failed to start dynasties or to proclaim their independence.
Slave insurance in the United States became an increasingly significant industry after the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, a federal law which took effect in 1808, prevented any new slaves from being imported to the U.S. [1] Existing slaves, especially skilled workers, therefore became more valuable, and were often rented out to ...
A 2022 study, which looked at modern-day populations and more than 700 ancient genomes from Southern Europe and West Asia covering a period of 11,000 years, found that Turkish people carry the genetic legacy of “both ancient people who lived in Anatolia for thousands of years covered by our study and people coming from Central Asia bearing ...
Tyler Perry is criticizing the Los Angeles insurance companies that declined to renew homeowner coverage ahead of the devastating wildfires that have torn through the county. "Watching a daughter ...
As Los Angeles construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in fire-ravaged Altadena, a question nagged at him: how would insurance companies cover the cost of ...
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 ...