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The mass immigration of Turks also led to them forming the largest ethnic minority group in Austria, [115] Denmark, [116] Germany, [117] and the Netherlands. [117] There are also Turkish communities in other parts of Europe as well as in North America, Australia and the Post-Soviet states. Turks are the 13th largest ethnic group in the world.
Nomadic Turks cooked their meals in a qazan, a pot similar to a cauldron; a wooden rack called a qasqan can be used to prepare certain steamed foods, like the traditional meat dumplings called manti. They also used a saj , a griddle that was traditionally placed on stones over a fire, and shish .
The Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia , they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire , in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed.
Thus, the Turks called their new state the Sultanate of Rûm, the "Sultanate of the Rome." After the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans , the area was called Rumelia (Roman lands) as it was predominantly inhabited by the newly conquered-nation , which the Ottomans called Rûm .
According to Stefan Bobchev: "the Deliorman Turks call themselves Turks. They say: "ben Türküm" (I am a Turk). The more cultured ones say that they're Ottomans." Although the Deliorman Turks did claim to be autochthonous, they also claimed to came from Konya, Haymana, Ankara and Eskişehir. About the alleged language differences, Bobchev says ...
Slavic Muslims were, therefore, not regarded part of their ethnic kinship since by conversion to Islam, "they have become Turks". [ 8 ] In Greece and in the Greek language , the same belief was held about Greek Muslims that they had essentially "become Turks", amd tourkalvanoi (" Turco-Albanians ") became a common term for Muslim Albanians who ...
They historically called themselves or were referred to by others as Muslims and/or Turks. They were also referred to as Ajam (meaning from Iran), using the term incorrectly to denote their Shia belief rather than ethnic identity. [ 65 ]
Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation; Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey; Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages; Turks, reference to the Ottoman Empire; Turk (term for Muslims), used by non-Muslim Balkan peoples; Turks of South Carolina, a group of people in the US