The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, the Medieval World

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... Oh, oh know. Now. We now introduce a people of the world who we have not spoken of before but who are a very important ethnic group on today's planet.

They are the Turkic peoples who are most obviously recognised in today's world

as the dominant ethnicity of the modern

nation of Turkey. We also see the reference in the name of the country Turkmenistan.

However the populations of other countries such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,

Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan can be described largely as Turkic.

And this is not surprising considering their proximity to the Eurasian step, the vast grasslands of the Eurasian landmass that stretch from the

Far East across the southern borderlands of Russia into the central lands of

Eastern Europe.

The origin of Turkic people is a matter for debate, and this is mainly because the people of the

Eurasian step were somewhat nomadic in nature throughout their history and as such there are very little

in the way of first-hand records of their culture and especially their languages. The Turkic language group is the binding

factor of the Turkic people historically. The easiest way to describe the

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