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  2. Ghilman - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. 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.

  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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    Barford, Paul M (2001), The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-3977-9; Gimbutas, Marija AlseikaitÄ— (1971), The Slavs, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-02072-8; Koncha, S. (2012). Bavarian Geographer On Slavic Tribes From Ukraine.

  6. Saqaliba - Wikipedia

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    Slavic slave from Cordoba Caliph palace, who dedicated his rule to the development of Almería. 1028 Zuhayr, also a former Slavic slave from Cordoba; 1038 Abu Bakr al-Ramimi; 1038 Abd al-Aziz al-Mansur, al-Mansur's grandson, King of Valencia; From 1038 to 1041 Almería belonged to the Taifa of Valencia.

  7. Simjurids - Wikipedia

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    Fight between Mahmud of Ghazni and Abu 'Ali Simjuri.. The Simjurids were a Turkic family that served the Samanid emirs of Bukhara in the 10th century. They played an influential role in the history of eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan during that time, and by the second half of the 10th century they had built a semi-independent principality in Khurasan.

  8. Volga Tatars - Wikipedia

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    A. Rorlich sees the history as follows: Khazar invasions forced the Bulgars, Turkic people, to migrate from the Azov steppes to the Middle Volga and lower Kama region during the first half of the eighth century. [24] In the period of 10th–13th centuries, other Turkic peoples, including Kipchaks, migrated from Southern Siberia to Europe.

  9. Sabuktakin - Wikipedia

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    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.