Quotes About Turkic

Mongol-Turkic invasions were arguably the most significant event in world history in the second millennium of the common era, and it was mainly because of the use of certain animals tied to geography.

The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago.

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books.

With the division of Central Asia between Russia and China, the historic Turkic territories of the Tar?m basin and vicinity passed under Chinese rule in 1759 as Xinjiang, the "new province"—a province larger than Alaska and three times the size of France.43

The main language of this conglomeration of tribes was a Turkish tongue. The Turkic peoples are historically and linguistically linked with T'uchüeh, the name given by the Chinese to the nomadic peoples who founded their empire stretching from Mongolia and the