Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a group thought to have originated in Manchuria in northeastern China and parts of Mongolia. Today they live mostly in Northern and Central Eurasia.
Turkic people speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. A Turkic person is called a Turk (e.g. the Kazakh Turks, the Kyrgyz Turks, etc., or in historical context: the Seljuq Turks, the Timurid Turks etc).
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There are Turks in many places. They dominate modern Central Asia, there are many in the Caucasus area, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. There are also some in Pakistan and India, but are intermixed with the local people, like the Muhajir group in Pakistan. Turkic people can have varying looks, but they originally were black haired, black or brown eyed, and white to yellowish skin (see Mongoloid). The western Turks in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan mostly look like Iranians, as they are heavily mixed with various Iranian and other Indo-European groups.
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The ancient Turks, called proto-Turks, looked like Chinese or Mongolian people. The Xinglongwa culture in Manchuria, in northeastern China, along the Liao river is the proposed homeland of the proto-Turks.[1][2] From their they expanded into Siberia and the Altai mountains, see Altai people. They are an East Asian people.[3][4]
Minorities in Turkic countriesEdit
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AzerbaijanEdit
KazakhstanEdit
KyrgyzstanEdit
TurkeyEdit
TurkmenistanEdit
UzbekistanEdit
Past and future populationEdit
- List of countries by past and future population provide 1950, 2000 and 2050 population while List of countries by future population (United Nations, medium fertility variant) provide 2100 population.
| Rank | Country | Area | 1950 | 2000 | 2050 | 2100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Turkey |
783,562 | 21,122,000 | 65,970,000 | 89,291,000 | 87,983,000 |
| 2 |  Uzbekistan |
447,400 | 6,293,000 | 25,042,000 | 35,117,000 | 32,077,000 |
| 3 |  Kazakhstan |
2,724,900 | 6,694,000 | 15,688,000 | 22,238,000 | 24,712,000 |
| 4 |  Azerbaijan |
86,600 | 2,886,000 | 8,464,000 | 11,210,000 | 9,636,000 |
| 5 |  Kyrgyzstan |
199,900 | 1,739,000 | 4,938,000 | 7,064,000 | 9,046,000 |
| 6 |  Turkmenistan |
488,100 | 1,205,000 | 4,386,000 | 6,608,000 | 5,606,000 |
| Total | 4,730,462 | 39,939,000 | 124,488,000 | 171,528,000 | 169,060,000 | |
Land and water area (excluding Caspian Sea)Edit
This list includes dependent territories within their sovereign states (including uninhabited territories), but does not include claims on Antarctica. EEZ+TIA is exclusive economic zone (EEZ) plus total internal area (TIA) which includes land and internal waters.
| Rank | Country | Area | EEZ | Shelf | EEZ+TIA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkey |
783,562 | 261,654 | 56,093 | 1,045,216 |
| 2 | Uzbekistan |
447,400 | 0 | 0 | 447,400 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan |
2,724,900 | 0 | 0 | 2,724,900 |
| 4 | Azerbaijan |
86,600 | 0 | 0 | 86,600 |
| 5 | Kyrgyzstan |
199,900 | 0 | 0 | 199,900 |
| 6 | Turkmenistan |
488,100 | 0 | 0 | 488,100 |
| Total | 4,730,462 | 261,654 | 56,093 | 4,992,116 | |
Related pagesEdit
Other websitesEdit
- Turkic Cultures and Children's Festival, Turkic Fest
- Encyclopedia Britanica 1911 Edition
- turkicworld
- Ural-Altaic-Sumerian Etymological Dictionary
- Crimean Tatar Internet Resources
- Crimean Tatar Web Site
- Kemal's Crimean Tatar Web Site with Crimean Tatar Language Resources
- Murad Adji's site Contains books in English