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540: The re-emergence of the lost Central Asian Turks mentioned in the Ergenekon epic [15] 540: Sasanian King of Iran, Hormizd IV, born to a Khazar Princess mother who married Khosrow I; 551: Establishment of the First Turkic Khaganate. 552: Göktürks revolt against Rouran domination. 565: Defeat of the Hephthalites on their war with Göktürks.
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.
Authors Joo-Yup Lee and Shuntu Kuang analyzed ten years of genetic research on Turkic people and compiled scholarly information about Turkic origins, and said that the early and medieval Turks were a heterogeneous group and that the Turkification of Eurasia was a result of language diffusion, not a migration of a homogeneous population. [7]
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.
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 origin of the Ottoman dynasty isn't known for sure but it is known that it was established by Turks from Central Asia, who migrated to Anatolia and were under Mongol suzerainty. [ 17 ] Likewise, nothing is known about how Osman first established his principality ( beylik ) as the sources, none of them contemporary, provide many different ...
The term Turk may refer to either the Turkish peoples in general, or a specific one of these peoples, typically the Turkish people: History of the Turkish people History of the Turkic peoples
According to a 2012 study of ethnic Turks, "Turkish population has a close genetic similarity to Middle Eastern and European populations and some degree of similarity to South Asian and Central Asian populations." [37] The analysis modeled each person's DNA as having originated from K ancestral populations and varied the parameter K from 2