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  2. Turkic peoples - Wikipedia

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    Iranian, Indian, Arabic, and Anatolian expansion. Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from present-day Northeastern China, Mongolia, Siberia and the Turkestan -region towards the Iranian plateau, South Asia, and Anatolia (modern Turkey) in many waves. The date of the initial expansion remains unknown.

  3. Tatar name - Wikipedia

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    A Tatar personal name, being strongly influenced by Russian tradition, consists of two main elements: isem ( given name) and familia ( family name) and also patronymic. Given names were traditional for Volga Bulgars for centuries, while family names appeared in the end of the 19th century, when they replaced patronymics.

  4. List of English words of Turkic origin - Wikipedia

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    Aslan. from Turkish Aslan, "lion". Astrakhan. from Astrakhan, Russia, which is from Tatar or Kazakh hadžitarkhan, or As-tarxan ( tarkhan of As or Alans) Karakul sheep of Russian origin or a cloth with a pile resembling karakul. [19] [20] Atabeg. from Turkic atabeg, from ata, "a father" + beg "a prince".

  5. Mongolian name - Wikipedia

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    Muslim and Turkic names also declined ( Akbarjin, Ismayil or Arghun ), leaving primarily the auspicious Mongolian names similar to those in the early empire. For example, some of the later Mongolian Emperors' names include Batumöngke, Buyan, Esen, Toγtoγa Buqa and Manduul. Mongol name customs also affected the nations under Mongol rule.

  6. Turkic languages - Wikipedia

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    Map showing countries and autonomous subdivisions where a language belonging to the Turkic language family has official status. Turkic languages are null-subject languages, have vowel harmony (with the notable exception of Uzbek due to strong Persian-Tajik influence), converbs, extensive agglutination by means of suffixes and postpositions, and lack of grammatical articles, noun classes, and ...

  7. Old Turkic - Wikipedia

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    Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia. [ 1] It was first discovered in inscriptions originating from the Second Turkic Khaganate, and later the Uyghur Khaganate, making it the earliest attested Common Turkic language.

  8. Gyula (name) - Wikipedia

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    Nickname (s) Gyuszi. Anglicisation (s) Julius. Gyula listen ⓘ ( Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟulɒ]) is a Hungarian male given name of presumably Turkic origin. Its meaning is 'torch'. [1] [2] It was revived in the 19th century when it was mistakenly identified with the Latin name Julius. [2]

  9. Koshchei - Wikipedia

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    Vasmer notes that the word koshchei has two meanings that have different etymologies: "thin, skinny person, walking skeleton" or "miser" – the origin of the word "bone"). Old Russian "youth, boy, captive, slave" from the Turkic košči "slave", in turn from koš "camp".