A number of Hungarian anthropologists and linguists have long had an interest in the Turkic peoples, fueled by the eastern origin of the Hungarians ' ancestors.

The ancestors of the Uyghur tribe were Turkic pastoralists called Tiele, who lived in the valleys south of Lake Baikal and around the Yenisei River.

Kazakhs are descendants of the Turkic tribes-Argyns, Khazars, Qarluqs ; and of the Kipchaks and Cumans ( the Kipchaks and Cumans being one of their major ancestors ) Turkic groups ( Kiyat, Dughlat, Naimans, Kerait, Onggirat, Manghud, Jalayir ) and other Turkic tribes such as the Kankalis, and ancient nomads like the Sarmatians, Saka and Scythians.

After the Caucasian Albanians were Christianized in the 4th century, the western parts of the population were gradually assimilated by the ancestors of modern Armenians, and the eastern parts of Caucasian Albania were Islamized and absorbed by Iranian and subsequently Turkic peoples ( modern Azerbaijanis ).

* There was no such thing as the Tartar and Mongol invasion followed by over two centuries of yoke and slavery, because the so-called " Tartars and Mongols " were the actual ancestors of the modern Russians, living in a bilingual state with Turkic spoken as freely as Russian.

The ancestors of the Chuvash were Turkic Bulgars and Suars residing in the Northern Caucasus in the 5th to 8th centuries.

Subsequent to this period, between the 9th and 11th centuries, there arose among the nomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia a tradition of oral epics, such as the Book of Dede Korkut of the Oghuz Turks — the linguistic and cultural ancestors of the modern Turkish people — and the Manas epic of the Kyrgyz people.

It will continue until the Turkic Armies ' parade on the foothills of Altai and Tien-Shan mountains where the souls of their ancestors stroll.

Some Polish nobles erroneously felt that their supposed Sarmatian ancestors were a Turkic people and accordingly viewed their Turkish and Crimean Tatar enemies as peers, albeit ones who were unredeeemed because they were not Christians.

Jewish literature Togarmah is the father of all the Turkic peoples | Turk s. I have found in the genealogical books of my ancestors that Togarmah had ten sons.

The Burtas are generally believed to be a Aryan tribal confederacy ( probably later assimilated to Turkic language ), the ancestors of the modern Mishars.

Siberian Tatars ' ancestry was partly from Turkic, Ugric, Mongolic, Ket and Samoyedic tribes, but their main ancestors were the Kypchaks.

The ancient Turkic legend recorded in the Chinese Zhoushu annals ( 周書, 636 AD ) tells of the origin of the ancestors of the ancient Türks from a state or possession So, located north of the Huns.

" On the basis of the existing name records, a number of scholars suggest that the Huns spoke a Turkic language of the Oghur branch, which also includes Bulgar, Avar, Khazar and Chuvash languages.

Sometimes ethnographers group Turkic people into six branches: the Oghuz Turks, Kipchak, Karluk, Siberian, Chuvash, and Sakha / Yakut branches.

Mongoloid and Caucasoid facial structure is common among many Turkic groups, such as Chuvash people, Tatars, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Hazaras, and Bashkirs.

Kurash ( kuresh, koresh and variants ; Uzbek kurash, Bashkir көрәш köräş, Tatar küreş, куреш, көрәш, kөrəş, Kazakh курес kures, Chuvash кӗрешӳ ) is the Turkic term for " wrestling " ( from Old Turkic keriš, c. f.

There are four varieties of Turkic which are geographically outside this continuum: Chuvash, Yakut and Dolgan.

These languages have been geographically separated from the other Turkic languages for extensive period of time and Chuvash language stands out as the most divergent from other Turkic languages.

Chuvash, Khalaj and Yakut are generally classified as significantly distinct, while the remaining Turkic languages are quite similar, with a high degree of mutual intelligibility between not only geographically adjacent varieties, but also between varieties which may be some distance apart.

The Chuvash people (; ) are a Turkic ethnic group, native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia.

Another theory suggests that the word " Chuvash " may be derived from Common Turkic jăvaš (" friendly ", " peaceful ") as opposed to şarmăs (" warlike ").

In that region, it may have ultimately given rise to the Chuvash language, which is most closely related to it and which is classified as the only surviving member of a separate " Oghur-Turkic " ( or Lir-Turkic ) branch of the Turkic languages, to which Bulgar is also considered to have belonged ( see above ).

Since the comparative material attributable to the extinct members of Oghuric ( Hunnic, Turkic Avar, Khazar and Bulgar ) is scant, little is known about any precise interrelation of these languages and it is a matter of dispute whether Chuvash, the only " Lir "- type language with sufficient extant linguistic material, might be the daughter language of any of these or just a sister branch.

* Britannica Online-The article describes the position of Bulgar and Chuvash in the classification of the Turkic languages.

Turkic “ Sabirs ” / “ Suvash ” / “ Chuvash ” comes from this and means “ River People ” i. e. “ Suwar ” or “ Suwer ”.

Many authorities suppose that Hunnic may have been mainly Turkic or a close relation of Turkic, possibly a member of the Oghuric branch of the Turkic language family, to which Bulgar, Khazar, Turkic Avar and Chuvash also probably belong.

The consensus among scholars had long been and still is that the Khazars spoke an Oghuric Turkic language similar to Chuvash, Hunnish, Turkic Avar and Volga-Bulgarian, possibly influenced by Old Turkic and Uyghur influences, as was stated by Al-Istakhri " the language of Bulgars resembles the language of Khazars ".

The capital of the Khazars was named Sarkel, which points markedly towards an Oghuric language, as the etymon connected to * sar-means ' white ' only in Chuvash, while ' yellow ' in the Common Turkic languages.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

The Timurks, a Turkic people, brought the Turkic nomadic culture of Central Asia within the orbit of Persian civilisation, establishing Herat on of the most cultured and refined cities in the world.

A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas through to the 8th century.

A nomadic Turkic people, the Kipchaks ( also known as the Cumans ), replaced the earlier Pechenegs as the dominant force in the south steppe regions neighbouring to Rus ' at the end of the 11th century and founded a nomadic state in the steppes along the Black Sea ( Desht-e-Kipchak ).

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

Because of their jurisdiction over the area in the past, Turkic people today still call the Caspian Sea the Khazar Sea.

Khazars were judged according to Tōra ( orders of the Khagan ; coming from the root Tōr meaning customs ; unwritten law of people in Old Turkic ) ( Modern Turkish: Töre ), while the other tribes were judged according to their own laws.

Golden along with M. Artamonov and A. Novoseltsev claimed that the Khazars were a tribal union of Uyghur, Sabir, and some other Central Asian Turkic people.

In the 6th c. CE the people of Kazakhstan were again absorbed into the new political state, the Turkic Kaganate, that controlled approximately the same area as the Eastern Hunnic Empire.

The legend of Asena is an old Turkic myth that tells of how the Turkic people were created.

An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Asena found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half wolf, half human cubs therefore the Turkic people were born.

The Tuva and the Altay people are culturally close to Mongols, but speak Turkic languages.

The inscription corpus consists of two monuments which were erected in the Orkhon Valley between 732 and 735 in honour of the two Kokturk prince Kul Tigin and his brother the emperor Bilge Kağan, as well as inscriptions on slabs scattered in the wider area. The script was also used for the epic poetry of the Turkic people.

A Turkic people, the Khazars, ruled the lower Volga basin steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas until the 10th century.

The Pechenegs ( a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes ) occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea ( 8th – 12th century ) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don and lower Danube rivers.

Turkic languages are spoken as a native language by some 165 to 200 million people ; and the total number of Turkic speakers is over 300 million, including speakers of a second language.

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region provincial government recommends that the generic ethnonym, adopted in the early 20th century for this Turkic people, be transcribed as " Uyghur.

The Turkic people also just used " Musulman ", which means " Muslim ", to describe themselves.

In AD 840, following a famine and civil war, the Uyghur Khaganate was overrun by the Kirghiz, another Turkic people.

Like the Sami people of Finland and Scandinavia, the Tungusic peoples, Mongolians, and Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia, Northern Mongolia, and the Ussuri Region have also taken to raising semi-domesticated herds of Asian Caribou.

The Bulgars ( also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians ) were a semi-nomadic people of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ( then Itil ).