Turkish
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- Something of, from, or related to Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the, a country in Eurasia (or specific earlier stages of its Turkish history):
- Great Seljuq Empire The Great Seljuq Empire was a Persianate medieval Sunni Muslim empire, established by the Qynyq branch of Oghuz Turks that once controlled a vast area stretching from the Hindu Kush to eastern Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. From their homelands near the Aral sea, the Seljuqs advanced first into Khorasan and then into mainland
- Seljuk Turks The Seljuq were a Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to 14th centuries. They set up an empire, the Great Seljuq Empire, which at its height stretched from Anatolia through Persia and which was the target of the First Crusade. The dynasty had its origins in the Turcoman tribal
- Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was a regime that lasted from 1299 to 1923
- as a noun, Turks Predominantly Sunni Islam. Shia muslim, eastern orthodox and atheist minorities, people from Turkey or of Turkish ancestry
- Ethnic Turks The Turkish people , also known as the "Turks" (Türkler) are defined mainly as citizens of the Republic of Turkey but also refers to the sizeable Turkish minorities who are still present in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire (mainly in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Syria) as well as the, people of Turkish descent with or without Turkish citizenship
- Turkish minorities, people of Turkish descent who have been living outside of Turkey prior to its independence
- Turkish citizens, citizens of Turkey regardless of ethnicity (see demographics of Turkey)
- The Turkish language Turkish (Türkçe IPA [ˈt̪yɾktʃe] ) is spoken as a first language by over 77 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern
- Ottoman Turkish
- Modern Turkish Turkish (Türkçe IPA [ˈt̪yɾktʃe] ) is spoken as a first language by over 77 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern
- Cypriot Turkish
- Turkish culture The culture of Turkey combines a largely diverse and heterogeneous set of elements that are derived from the Ottoman, European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian traditions. This rich diversity is mostly owed to Turkey's former status as a multiethnic empire which, de facto until the loss of Libya to the Kingdom of Italy in 1912 spanned three
- Obsoletely, in a historical context, the Turkic peoples Islam , Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Shamanism, Tengriism, Atheism, Agnosticism and Syncretic religion
See also
- All pages beginning with "Turkish"
- Turk (disambiguation)
- Turkey (disambiguation)
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