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Turk

Member of any of the Turkic-speaking peoples of Asia and Europe, especially the principal ethnic group of Turkey. Turkic languages belong to the Altaic family and include Uzbek, Ottoman, Turkish, Azeri, Turkoman, Tatar, Kirghiz, and Yakut. The ancestors of the Turks were pastoral nomads in central Asia. Islam was introduced during the 7th century.

Linguistically the Turks may be divided into two groups: the western, including the Turkic peoples of Europe and of western Asia; and the eastern, including the peoples of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kirgizia, the Chinese Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, and some scattered elements in eastern Siberia.



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