• The Turkic people in Afghanistan are Turkic people from modern day Afghanistan. The major Turkic tribes are the Afghan Qizilbash, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Turkmens...
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    Afghan Qizilbash (Dari: قزلباش‌های افغان; Azerbaijani: Əfqanıstan qızılbaşları) are a Turkic ethnic group in Afghanistan. The Afghan Qizilbash are descendants...
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    of Afghanistan Ethnic groups in Afghanistan Turkic people in Afghanistan "Language data for Afghanistan". "The 1997 CIA World Factbook Afghanistan" (PDF)...
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    The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages...
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  • Afghan Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group in Afghanistan. A very small community speaks the Afghan Tatar language, while the vast majority speaks either...
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    up the contemporary Afghan people. Approximately 46% of the population is under 15 years of age, and 74% of all Afghans live in rural areas. The average...
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  • Uzbeks (redirect from Uzbeks in Afghanistan)
    Ўзбеклар, اۉزبېکلر) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area. They comprise...
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    Dawood Sarkhosh. The Uzbeks are one of the main Turkic ethnic group in Afghanistan, whose native territory is in the northern regions of the country. Most likely...
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    Turkmens (redirect from Turkomen people)
    a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern regions of Iran and north-western Afghanistan. Sizeable...
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    first person mentioning the Khalaj people in his Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk: "The twenty twos call them 'Kal aç' in Turkic languages. This means 'Stay hungry'...
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    The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; /ˈkɪərɡɪz/ KEER-giz or /ˈkɜːrɡɪz/ KUR-giz) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia...
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    cultural heritage. Eypio- Afghan-born Turkish rapper, songwriter and musician. Turkmen people Turkic people in Afghanistan Turkoman horse Iranian Turkmens...
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    The Organization of Turkic States (OTS), formerly called the Turkic Council or the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, is an intergovernmental...
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  • Khanate (redirect from Turkic khanate)
    Khanates were typically nomadic Turkic, Mongol and Tatar societies located on the Eurasian Steppe, politically equivalent in status to kinship-based chiefdoms...
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    Turkic history is the systematic documentation and study of events involving the Turkic peoples. Turks were an important political identity of Eurasia...
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    left in Afghanistan by Genghis Khan or his successors became the starting layer, the basis of the Hazara ethnogenesis. According to him, the Turkic elements...
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    Tajiks (redirect from Tajiks in Afghanistan)
    primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second-largest in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan...
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    ديلی, [tʏɾkmøn dɪlɪ]), sometimes referred to as Turkmen Turkic or Turkmen Turkish, is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central...
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    Pashtuns (redirect from Ethnic Afghan)
    Pashtun people worldwide is estimated to be around 49 million, although this figure is disputed due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan since...
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    The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965. Four members...
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    Turkoman (ethnonym) (category History of the Turkish people)
    was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages. Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A...
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    Turkic peoples (including the Turks of Turkey) have historically been associated as one of the non-indigenous peoples to have ruled areas of India and...
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    approximately 200,000 Azerbaijanis in Armenia in the mid-1980s. Upon Seljuk conquests in the eleventh century, the mass of the Oghuz Turkic tribes crossed the Amu...
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  • mention of Hazara people is made by Babur in the 16th century. Additionally, many areas of Afghanistan are named after Mongol and Turkic leaders, including...
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    Turkish people or Turks (Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey...
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    population of Afghanistan. They are of diverse origins including of Iranic, Turkic or Mongolic ethnolinguistic roots. The Afghan people of all ethnicities...
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    displaced Afghans sought refuge in Pakistan and in Iran. Approximately 6.5% to 11.5% of Afghanistan's erstwhile population of 13.5 million people (per the...
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  • Afghanistan (Dari: جنبش ملی اسلامی افغانستان, Junbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan), sometimes called simply Junbish, was a Turkic political party in Afghanistan...
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    Pan-Turkism (redirect from Pan-Turkicism)
    unity of Turkic peoples. In research literature, "pan-Turkism" is used to describe the political, cultural and ethnic unity of all Turkic people. "Turkism"...
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    Naimans (redirect from Naiman Turkics)
    tribes. Other scholars classified them as a Turkic people from Sekiz Oghuz (means "Eight Oghuz" in Turkic). However, the term "Naiman" has Mongolian origin...
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