17 Facts About Turkic culture

Turkic culture peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of Central, East, North, and West Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic culture languages.

Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic culture peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeastern China and wider Northeast Asia, who moved westwards into Mongolia in the late 3rd millennium BC, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle.

Genetic and historical evidence suggests that the early Turkic culture peoples were of largely East Asian origin but became increasingly diverse, with later medieval Turkic culture groups exhibiting both East Asian and occasionally West Eurasian physical appearances and genetic origins.

Turkic culture languages constitute a language family of some 30 languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, to Siberia and Manchuria and through to the Middle East.

The remainder of the Turkic culture people are concentrated in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, China, and northern Iraq.

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Turkic culture alphabets are sets of related alphabets with letters, used for writing mostly Turkic culture languages.

The latest recorded use of Turkic culture alphabet was recorded in Central Europe's Hungary in 1699 CE.

The Turkic culture alphabets are divided into four groups, the best known of them is the Orkhon version of the Enisei group.

Martine Robbeets suggests that the Turkic peoples were descended from a Transeurasian agricultural community based in northeast China, which is to be associated with the Xinglongwa culture and the succeeding Hongshan culture.

The East Asian agricultural origin of the Turkic culture peoples has been corroborated in multiple recent studies.

Main migration of Turkic culture peoples occurred between the 6th and 11th centuries, when they spread across most of Central Asia.

Oguz Yabgu State was a Turkic culture state, founded by Oghuz Turks in 766, located geographically in an area between the coasts of the Caspian and Aral Seas.

The Mughal dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic culture prince named Babur, who was descended from the Turkic culture conqueror Timur on his father's side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother's side.

Every year, one city in the Turkic culture world is selected as the "Cultural Capital of the Turkic culture World".

Additionally, Turkic culture people are found within Crimea, Altishahr region of western China, northern Iraq, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, and the Balkans: Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and former Yugoslavia.

Early Turkic culture mythology was dominated by Shamanism, Animism and Tengrism.

Major Christian-Turkic culture peoples are the Chuvash of Chuvashia and the Gagauz of Moldova.