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The Corps of Forty (Persian: گروه چهارده, Urdu: گروہِ چالیس), also known as the Dal Chalisa or the Turkan-e-Chahalgani, was a council of 40 mostly Turkic slave emirs who administered the Delhi Sultanate as per the wishes of the sultan.
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 ...
In 963, Alp-Tegin accompanied by his personal guard of Turkic slave-soldiers and group of Iranian ghazis left for Ghazni, which was a small town in Zabulistan ruled by the local Lawik dynasty. [3] He seized Ghazni from Abu Bakr Lawik , a kinsman of the Kabulshah , and secured his position by receiving an investiture from the Samanids as the ...
Sabuktakin was a Turkic slave who was set free by the first Buyid ruler of Iraq, Mu'izz al-Dawla (r. 945–967), and became, according to the historian Heribert Busse, the latter's "right-hand man". [1] Sabuktakin first appears in 948/9, [2] when was sent to aid Rukn al-Dawla in Rayy, which was threatened by the Sallarids and Samanids.
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 Pechenegs as a group were last mentioned in 1168 as members of Turkic tribes known in the chronicles as the "Chorni Klobuky (Black Hats)". [53] It is likely that the Pecheneg population of Hungary was decimated by the Mongol invasion of Hungary, but names of Pecheneg origin continue to be reported in official documents. The title of "Comes ...
Tatar mufti Ravil Gainutdin has stated, that in his opinion "Russia was created by Turks as much as it was by Slavs". [60] The foundation for such ideas were laid out by Crimean Tatar Jadidist thinker Ismail Gasprinsky , who believed in unity of the two peoples and thought Russia was "a continuation of the Golden Horde".