How Turkish Got To Turkey

[@NameExplain]

Anyone watching from a Turkic speaking nation?

[@dollamoneyman4864]

Me

[@13thk]

Hello from Türkiye and the timing...

[@death-istic9586]

Hi.

[@sparky6086]

Hitties? Don't you mean "Hittites"? They're rathet famous.

[@sudey6675]

🖐🏻

[@SignsBehindScience]

12:17 A little correction: They did not break into _"Emirates"_ (which is ruled by an Emīr, an Arabic term), but into *"Beyliks"* (a principality ruled by a Bey) which are the Turkic equivalent of an Emirate.

[@eymenytb6235]

Absolutly true

[@timuraykeldi8633]

Actually not netlike but beglik

[@SignsBehindScience]

@@timuraykeldi8633 who said _netlike_ lol. In Turkish, it's Beylik, while in other Turkic languages, it is variously known as a Beklik or Beglik

[@burstfireno1617]

True 👌

[@SignsBehindScience]

@DokkariLed in Ottoman Turkish it was written with a ک which is equivalent to k

[@metternich_999]

The Seljuk Turks do not have Persian origins. However, when they ruled over iranian lands, the people naturally spoke persian so they used persian in the court as well, while the language of the rulers and the army remained Turkic.

[@metternich_999]

Wow, this video contains numerous historical errors. I believe more thorough research should have been conducted before making such definitive statements.

[@user-4xislb]

Seljuks wans't Iranian. Yet some of them will keep saying it theirs because it ruled them for a loong time. Seljuks was oblivously Turkic, you can search it.

[@SezerToker0]

@@user-4xislb Its like calling Roman Empire as Roma-Gaul Empire. So stupid but when it comes to Turks everyone doing their best to diminish their success.

[@Bizmyurt]

@@metternich_999 well Gagauzia is not more west, anyway Turkish is spoken in west Balkan like me!

[@Bizmyurt]

@@metternich_999 okuli bitir pesim!

[@Snqwy]

Slight misconception - the Byzantines never referred to themselves as "Byzantine". Up until the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople in 1453, they had referred to themselves as "Roman", and were considered to be a literal continuation of the Roman Empire. The term "Byzantine" came about much later, as a means of distinguishing the predominantly Greek influenced Byzantine Empire from Western Rome, which was predominantly Latin influenced.

[@bblunder]

Ottomans started to reffer themselves as the "Ottomans" in just the last 100 years of their empire. In Europe, the state was referred to as the Turkish Empire or simply just Turkey. This actually explains how the current turkeys got their name before the Republic of Turkey was even established. Turks, on the other hand, referred to their empire as the Eternal State or Sublime State. After the French Revolution, they changed the offical name to "Sublime State of Osman", or Ottomans, to add a more nationalist expression rather than a random state with sublime or ethernal characteristics. Turks still use the term "Rum" when talking about Greeks. That is the Arabic version of the word Roman. Although it is used only for Greeks now, it was used for all Orthodox Christians living in the empire's borders. Therefore, another name of the Balkans is Rumelia. The origin of both words is Turkish. It makes sense that the Turks would refer to the Greeks as Romans because the Greeks also called themselves that way. Before Greece was founded and European states wanted to establish a state with Hellenic features, the Greeks called themselves Roman and their own language as Romaika (literally meaning Roman language). In fact, stories are told that those who came to liberate the island of Crete called to the children playing there as Greeks, but the children did not understand what was said and replied as "We are Romans"

[@TurkishZombie]

@@bblunder Good summation but we differentiate between Roman and Greek. We call the Greeks Yunan (Ionian). Rum are the Orthodox people who still live in Anatolia and Thrace.

[@GrecoByzantine1821]

​@@bblunderConstantine Palaiologos himself in his last speech proclaimed Constantinople the "refuge for Christians, hope and delight of all HELLENES". George Phrantzes, History, 3.6 I can give you many examples were a nation have a different origin from its initial name, so use your small brain to comprehend it: 1)Bulgarians were initially a Turkic nation but gradually Slavicised so nowadays they consider themselves a Slavic and not a Turkic nation , 2)Moghuls had a Turco-Mongolic name but it was an Indian Empire in language, ethnicity and culture, 3)Russians name is derived from the Rus' people, who were a Swedish tribe, and where the three original members of the Rurikid dynastry came from but nowadays they are an East Slavic nation! 4)Safavids were initially a Turkic/Kurdish dynasty but gradually their nation and whole dynasty became fully persianised! Same way the 5)Eastern Roman Empire initially was a Roman Empire but gradually fully Hellenized in every aspect like language, culture and also main ethnicity. The Eastern "Romans" had nothing to do with the Italic/Latin people of Rome as they spoke Greek, their ethnicity were Greek and their culture was mainly Greek. Byzantine Greeks, were the decendants of the same Greek Hellenistic populations who inhabited the heartland of the later Eastern "Roman" Empire: modern Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, South Italian Peninsula and portions of southern Bulgaria, Crimea, and Albania, Levante, coastal Syria,North Libya (Cyrenaica),parts of Egypt,Greek Decapolis of Israel etc So conclusively, because the colonisation of the eastern part of the ""Roman" empire with Latin/Roman/Italic was literally MINOR, so the "Eastern Romans" were Greeks in almost every aspect and typically "Romans" ONLY by name!

[@skylinelover9276]

​Modern Greeks are decendants of East romans.. the east Romans are majority native Greeks and a bit greeknized latins

[@skylinelover9276]

​@@GrecoByzantine1821you are right being Roman is not make you Latin... That's why Greeks hated the term Roman because wokes only link Romans to Italians Wich not supposed to do

[@KimseKimsesiz1948]

They were not emirate… But Beklik or Beylik… The Turkic title of Lord, is Bek in ancient original version, like Özbek and the country Özbekistan (Original Lord The Real Lord Land is thee English translation of Özbekistan) and Bey in modern day Turkish, and in the Renaissance, it was already Beg or Beğ (with the Turkish soft G like the Gh of Through ) which gave the modern Bey…

[@nadirhikmetkuleli7335]

Öz does not mean original, real or genuine. That is a meaning shift in Anatolia. The real meaning of Öz is "self". So Özbek means "A person who is lord of himself".

[@bbatuhan_atesli]

öz means self in Turkish too like özüm(kendim) which means myself or öz güven means self confidence

[@KimseKimsesiz1948]

@@nadirhikmetkuleli7335 yep indeed Bro 😎

[@KimseKimsesiz1948]

@@bbatuhan_atesli Indeed ✅

[@SmokeyMountain0]

its the same thing with emirate,but a different name

[@DanTheCaptain]

A video on how the Finnish, Estonians and Hungarian got to where they are would be cool! As a Hungarian myself, our origin story is still very much steeped in mystery.

[@DaveSCameron]

Shout yes, I'd love to hear the basics of it, you Magyars etc. 👍 👌☘️🙏

[@kevincronk7981]

From what I know as an American without much of a connection to Hungary but interested in its history, the way Finnish and Estonian got there is different from how Hungarian got there, and there are some competing theories about how Hungarian got to the Urals, which everyone pretty much agrees eventually the ancestors of magyars were in the Urals and eventually settled the carpathian (the whole story with Arpad, minus some exaggerations here and there). I've heard tho that somewhat similar to Turkish, at one point what would eventually become Hungarian was in the steppes around Mongolia, and over time the magyars just migrated West and eventually got to around the Urals.

[@ClementinesmWTF]

Hungarian has to be the most interesting story there is-it sounds like a LotR kinda thing in how they got where they got. The only thing more fictional is that we pretend “Finnish” exists and it’s not just a sea for Japan to fish in

[@HAkan-hi1ng]

Siz türksünüz kavimler göçü sırasında türk boylarının bir kısmı avrupaya bir kısmı anadoluya bir kısmı rusyaya gitti

[@joeshar.]

Hungarians and Turks are far-cousins coming from the same origin: Huns. That's why you can see the name Atilla in both nations.

[@nadirhikmetkuleli7335]

Ottoman Turkish was never spoken all across Anatolia. Even Sultans in Istanbul never spoke it. Colloquial Turkish was spoken by Anatolian Turks, even Sultans spoke Turkish in their palace, with a heavy Istanbulite accent though. Ottoman Turkish was a highly Arabized and Persianized form of Turkish and it was only a written language used in official documents and literary works by elites.

[@ik5759]

exactly !!

[@vizibilibende5194]

we are on 3 the continent .......

[@ozanbayrak562]

Modern türkçe Osmanlı türkçesinin sadeleştirilmiş halidir. Hatta iki kez sadeleştirilmiştir. İstersen Tanzimat döneminde yapılan sadeleştirmeyi araştırabilirsin; “Yeni Osmanlıca” dedikleri dile. Arapça kökenli olup daha önce kullanılmayan kelimeler türetilmiş mesela.

[@nadirhikmetkuleli7335]

@@ozanbayrak562 Cumhuriyet, Tahtülbahr...

[@kazimkorkmaz]

ULAN (UHL)

[@bentoth9555]

The Eastern Romans never called themselves Byzantine. That term didn't start to be used until at least a century after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

[@emmanouilachladiotis5272]

To hide truth and history. They still do that around the world today. Look at fake Macedonia state. Kosovo state. Where do those fake state pop up from? Those who rule the masses globally. And Turkye modern one is made by them also, its a fake state political and brought down the ottomans. Ottoman and modern Turkye are two different things. Two different forces

[@sparky6086]

Hitties? Don't you mean "Hittites"? They're rather famous.

[@DaveSCameron]

Hitlerites?

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Glad it's not just me thinking that!

[@christopherbentley7289]

It's just Patrick being crafty, inventing a new name for those people. Maybe it'll catch on!

[@miketacos9034]

Hitties? Oh you mean Hotties 🥵

[@KrytoRift]

😂

[@alperenbaser7952]

Turks never had emirates . We are not Arabs . We have Beyliks which basicly means Lordship or Principality

[@vantutri9571]

emirat means lordship as well though))

[@0Grasses]

​@@vantutri9571Which is the Arab equivalent. How many times do we need to tell you that we are not Arabs?

[@LawPan-gd7nh]

​@@0Grassesfree kurdistan😂

[@0Grasses]

@@LawPan-gd7nh You mean Dreamistan?

[@LawPan-gd7nh]

@@0Grasses state of kurdistan.. let them free from turkiye ,Syria, Iran and iraq

[@shaemusmelvin1317]

10:05 The byzantines and their contemporaries actually referred to themselves as roman until the empire collapsed, the term "byzantine" was only used starting in the 19th century

[@therongjr]

You're missing a critically important third "T" in the word "Hittites." (They were preceded, by the way, by the Hattians.)

[@keyhan1163]

هیتیت ها کورد بودند

[@dikkatruzgarckabilir5533]

@@keyhan1163 No, Drake was a Kurd!

[@Marandahir]

The Hittites called themselves Hatti - fundamentally the same nation but the predominant language switch from the Old Hattian one to a newer Indo-European language carrying the original Hatti language as a substrate. This is part of why the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family is so different from the other PIE-descended languages; we don’t even know how to classify the earlier language used.

[@kainingyao7873]

The Hungarian language also had a very similar story on how it ended up being a significant linguistic anomaly in the heart of Europe itself, having originated from the Magyar people, who also happened to be from around the similar area in Central Asia as the Turkic peoples, migrating incredibly far from their original homeland. And that's how we got an Uralic language amidst a vast zone of Indo-European languages.

[@postachamdi6286]

But genetics says hungarians dont have central asian genes.

[@KathyXie]

According to Chinese sources the Xiongnu were also proto Turkic speakers, they were around 3th century BCE, many centuries before the rise of the gokturk empire, in fact the Ashina clan, the ruling dynasty of the Göktürks was part of the Xiongnu confederation. Even the Huns may have been Turkic speakers or a mix of Turkic and Proto-Mongolic, but we will never know for sure.

[@DaveSCameron]

Cheers for the information here 👍

[@nenenindonu]

The consensus is that the Huns were Turks of Oghuric affiliation, mostly based on credible studies confirming that the vast majority of attested Hunnic names as well as all Hunnic sub-clans (Akatziri, Onogurs, Utigurs, Sabirs, Bulgars, Saragurs, Baranjars, Kutrigurs) are of evident Oghur Turkic origin Recorded Hunnic names of Turkic origin : Aigan = moon prince; from Turkic aï & can Alp Ilutuer / Ilteber = heroic chieftain; from Turkic alp & iltäbär Althias = six; from Turkic Alti Akkagas = white rock; from Turkic ak & kayač Atakam = elder shaman; from Turkic ata & kam Balach = calf; from Turkic Malaq Berik = strong; from Turkic Berık Basik = governor; from Turkic Bârsiğ Bleda = wise; from Turkic Bildä Bochas = either gullet; from Turkic Boğuz; or bull, from Buqa Dengizich = ocean-like, little sea; from Turkic teɲez & dêɲri; or simply, great lake Donat / Donatu = horse; from Turkic Yonat Edeco = good; from Turkic Ädgü Ellac = to rule; from Turkic el & lä Emmedzur = horse lord; from Turkic Ämäcur Eskam / Esqam = companion of the shaman; from Turkic eŝ & kam Erekan / Kreka = pure princess; from Turkic Arïqan Ernakh / Hernac = small man, heroic man; from Turkic Ernäk Iliger = prince man; from Turkic ilig & är Karadach = black mountain; from Turkic Qaradağ Karaton = black cloak; from Turkic Qarâton Kursik = either noble; from Turkic Kürsiğ; or belt-bearer, from Qurŝiq Kutilzis = blessed herald; from Turkic kut & elči Mundzuk = bead; from Turkic Munčuq Oebarsius / Aybars = moon leopard, from Turkic Aïbârs; or dun leopard, from oy & bars Oldogan / Odolgan = either red falcon; from Turkic al & dogan; or chubby, from Tolgun Onegesius = either twelve; from Turkic oneki; or tumen chief, from Oniyiz Oktar / Uptar = brave; from Turkic Öctär Ruga / Rua = wise man; from Turkic Ögä Turgun = still, calm; from Turkic Turkun Uldin = six; from Turkic Alti Zolban = shepherd star; from Turkic Čolpan

[@nenenindonu]

Huns originate from the Xiongnu which in fact is a sinicization of the original Hiung-nu a rendering of "Hun" the Xiongnu connection to the Jie Later Zhao and Yueban makes the Xiongnu's Turkic origins clear

[@lockrime]

I've usually seen Xiognu being considered Yeniseian which is not Turkic but rather closely related with... Apachean languages of Southwestern US of all things??? (Well, the ruling elite of Xiognu that is, as a whole they would be a mix of Iranian, Turkic, Monglic, Yeniseian, Tungusic and who knows what else)

[@yusufardagures5490]

This is accepted as the fact in Turkic countries bcs that just makes sense

[@emrebilgintm]

Fun Fact: The oldest inscriptions in the Turkish World are no longer the Orkhon Inscriptions.

[@kelvinnkat]

Thank you pony, who's the one on the right side?

[@emrebilgintm]

@@kelvinnkat Twilight and Sunset

[@o.kartal5002]

Fakat Orhon vadisindeki kurganlar yazıtlardan bir kaç yüzyıl daha eski...

[@tarihbuyut]

i wish they found a written scythian inscription or text bc scholars say it is iranian mix people according to the Heredot said they(scythians) write a language like the persians but this is not a academic proof or view. they can write in iranian alphabet and speak a mixture of turkish and influenced by persian likewise uzbeks and tajiks.

[@Mmm-dz4lv]

@@tarihbuyutу Геродота нет такого, где вы это нашли, что скифы пользуются персидским письмом?

[@mirceagogoncea]

An 18 hour non-stop flight between Turkey and Mongolia? Lol. It's more like 6 hours. 18 hours is enough time to cross the Pacific from San Francisco to Singapore. That would also be one of the longest flights in the world.

[@isimbulamadm7972]

The video is just full of wrong information. Just the drawn borders of the Sultanate Of Rum is ridicilous! Thats like a small province when compared to the real borders.

[@consensuslphisk]

​@isimbulamadm7972 the comment section is full corrections, feels like almost purposefully bad quality...

[@DAK4Blizzard]

To be slightly fair, I see It's more like 8 hours from Istanbul to Ulaanbaatar for a non-stop flight. That makes me wonder whether Patrick somehow mistyped 18 when typing up his script. But yes, either way they're a lot closer than an 18-hour flight. It's similar in terms of distance, flight time, and latitudes covered as between New York, US and Paris, France.

[@joelhungerford8388]

Lol yeah LA to Sydney is 12 hours, Sydney to Vancouver is 16 hours. Lol they must've been flying in kites to take 18 hours

[@ulaachtezulaachtiran257]

I thought he meant 8 hours. Unless the plane stops over in Dubai 😅

[@futboldunyasi7054]

This is a useful video, so thank you. Turks had already spread over a wide geography as Huns and Proto-Turks in Central, Northern and Western Asia, Anatolia and Europe for a long time. Some Turkic people, who were few in number and moved away from their homeland, were assimilated in Europe. We were spreading over a wide geography, not just Mongolia, but it is true that our language is of Asian origin. In addition, Turks consist of three separate groups: Oghuz, Kipchak and Karluk peoples.

[@merrick6484]

We have to admit, those Mongoloids tribes on horsebacks from Far East are quite bad ass. If China didn‘t built Great Wall, they will naturally going south, but they got no choice thoses days but go west wards instead.

[@Qwerka]

@@merrick6484 Thanks!

[@googane7755]

Sure turks are spread everywhere but the earliest known turks definitely originate someplace around the mongolian steppe/altai mountian range. Very interesting how many people migrated from this one place alone.

[@ektran4205]

uighurstan afghanistan pakistan caucastan

[@futboldunyasi7054]

@@merrick6484 True, but the Mongols were always fewer in number than the Turks, and as you can see from the diversity of the Turkic peoples, there were many Turks in the Mongol empire. The main reasons for the migration of Turks may be the lack of agriculture, seasonal difficulties, animal husbandry and horse breeding, tent culture and expansionism. Because before the Mongolian invasion, there was a migration of tribes and some Turkic people had gone to Europe long ago.

[@bblunder]

Europeans had homelands other than the places they colonized, and they would establish colonies, forts and cities in the places they discovered and collect the resources there and bring them to where they actually live (Iberian penuinsila, France or Great Britain). As for Turkic migrations, Turks left their homeland compleatly and migrated to other places. Just like the Indo-European migrations or Migration Period. That is citing two very different phenomena. Turkoman is the word to define Oghuz Turks. As every other language family, Turkic language family has branches as well: Oghuz, Kipchak and Siberian. Azerbaijanis, Turkish and Turkmens are from the Oghuz Turks. If you jumped to the 10th or 11th century when they started to diversify into different peoples you would realize they would have mention themselves as Turkomans. But the word Turkoman slowly lost its meaning in the later Turkish beyliks (kingdoms) and empires and became a word to describe nomadic Turkish/Oghuz Turks alongside with the word Yoruk.

[@HatredForMankind]

Oghuz-Karluk, Kipchak-Sibir and Oghur. Main three branches of Turkic.

[@huhijih.sndhjb4721]

According to my Yoruk granparents (all 4) the difference between Turkoman and Yoruk is that Yoruk where the people that stayed nomad while the Turkoman settled much earlier in cities and villages.

[@kusturucu1015]

Cool video. Just a little correction though, those small Turkish principalities in Anatolia after dissolution of the Seljuks were called "beylik" not "emirate"

[@cografyakafas9407]

Padişah çocuklarına İngilizce kaynaklarda prens olarak veriliyor Buda zorumuza gidiyor mu yoksa sadece Arapça mı gidiyorsunuz

[@kusturucu1015]

@@cografyakafas9407 Evet yalnızca Arapça olunca zorumuza gidiyor 🙏😊

[@metternich_999]

@@kusturucu1015 Fena yakmışsın. ahahaha :D

[@AivRise]

If i'm not mistaken, Oghuzes(from them Turks in Turkey came from) in 8th century already were in Syrdarya, Aral and near to Caspian sea region. After falling of Oghuz yabghu state in middle of 11th century they migrated to the east(or some of them, who were seljuks)

[@nenenindonu]

Ottoman Turkish was never spoken all across Anatolia it was just a language of the court and nobility the spoken language of the common population on the other hand was Old Anatolian Turkish

[@DaveSCameron]

?

[@Jhaldmer]

@@DaveSCameron?

[@isimbulamadm7972]

@@DaveSCameron The term "Ottoman Turkish" is actually used for the language of the upper class. Only the Sultan and people around him spoke that language. If was the governmental language. The people of Anatolia could not understand their language as Ottoman Turkish was beyond recognizable due to It being influenced by Greek, Arabic, Persian, and Balkan languages. The people of Anatolia spoke what we call "Anatolian Turkish" wich is the modern day Turkish.

[@DaveSCameron]

@@isimbulamadm7972 I'm talking about the language, turkic, linked race...

[@isimbulamadm7972]

@@DaveSCameron You're not talking about anything? You just commented "?" to @nenenindonu so I explained to you what he was talking about.

[@kettusnuhveli]

To me it’s wild that there is still debate about whether or not Turkey is part of Europe when around 100 years ago it was literally labeled the “sick man of europe” and stuff like the Byzantine Empire being seen as European.

[@savvassyrmopoulos5570]

It depends on how you define europe

[@zekihasan-yg9xv]

Tzar Nicolas said that about Ottoman Empire as a political insult, then he became the dead man of Europe. One must watch what one says. No?

[@suphichenko]

it is because of values, religion and culture not history or geography. and if you are an outsider you will be only welcome if you are strong and turkiye isnt strong obviously. yet..

[@aloha1783]

​@@savvassyrmopoulos5570how i define europe? For me only western, and central europe should be called europe

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

Can you also do such an origin story video for Uralic peoples like Hungarians and Finns?

[@HAkan-hi1ng]

Türk kökenli o halklar

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

@@HAkan-hi1ng Incorrect. They are Uralic, as I said. I don't know why some Hungarians see themselves as Turkic, but Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic and othe peoples were just neighbors and got influenced from one another more or less. They probably intermixed with Turkic people, but Hungarians and Finns are not Turkic peoples. Their languages are not even related

[@Himes5564]

@@brillitheworldbuilder Hungarians are closer to us Turks, but Finns and Estonians are far away.

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

@@Himes5564 They ARE closer, but due to language and areal contact and not because they're related. Hungarians has many Turkic and Iranian loan words and another similarity is that both Turks and Hungarians were horseback riders, probably also due to contact.

[@jackholler3572]

​@@brillitheworldbuilderThere is no such thing as uralic. They were all Turkic lands. There is no point of "creating a race" just because there were geographical limitations causing slight language difference between same people.....

[@GlassSpider]

Love this video! I'd really like to see some more language history videos!

[@ApprenPlayer]

Anatolian peninsula was formed 70 million years ago after a collision between Eurasian and Arabian plates due to subduction process created mountains over the Tethys Sea.

[@joeshar.]

7:40 Only modern countries with Turkic-origin are shown but regions under other countries are missing: from Yakutsk/Russia to Xingang/China to Crimea-Caucacus and to Khorasan/Iran

[@teovu5557]

Tatarstan,Baskhirstan, Balkaria,karachay,Khakassia,Chuvashia,Altai republic,SAKHA(yakutia),Crimea and about a dozen other areas......you missed a LOT....

[@Demirorda]

We are a huge nation, and our history isn't start in Göktürks. We have history which 4000 years went to the all steppes with only Turkic language. And with our relatives (Altaic) and our far relatives (Uralic,Amerindian etc.) we've 20000 year-history maybe

[@merrick6484]

Goturks were the forefather of Modern day Turkiye, came from Far East, Mongoloid phenotype. Not the other way around. Never heard any Euroasian tribe from central Asia migrating back to Far Eastern Asia. Not even Alexander the Great went that far to Mongolia steppe.

[@st3019]

Europe is not a continent. It’s a subcontinent of Eurasia.

[@strickenrod2681]

It's a continent buddy, you might as well include Africa aswell.

[@st3019]

@@strickenrod2681 No buddy is not ! Africa is a mass land which is almost completely separated by Eurasia . They only have one small land bridge in Suez . Europe and Asia are practically one . Where do you draw the line border between Europe and Asia btw ?! The Balkans were not considered Europe until 1920s . What do you do about that ?! Europe is a continent by name only . That’s a fact

[@strickenrod2681]

@@st3019 nope, borders are urals, Balkans, and Iberia

[@googane7755]

@@strickenrod2681 Is Kazakhstan European and Georgia and Armenia part of Asia then? Europe is not really a continent because there is no natural geographic borders that makes sense.

[@DM-nl7kf]

Right!

[@xdd87]

All Medieval Turkics are Eurasian. Including Kipchaks who lived in Kazakhstan and Russia. Let's model modern Turks with Kipchaks to see how Turkic they are. Target: Turkish(West) Distance: 0.6720% / 0.00672047 31.2 KAZ_Kipchak 30.2 Anatolia_Center_Phrygian_650BC 16.4 Paleo-Balkan+Slavic_MNE_Doclea_Bjelovine 9.2 Caucasus_BlackSea_Samsun_B_150BC 8.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA 5.0 Levant_Sidon_1800BC Target: Turkish(Bolu) Distance: 0.7747% / 0.00774707 35.8 KAZ_Kipchak 24.4 Anatolia_Center_Phrygian_650BC 16.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA 14.2 Paleo-Balkan+Slavic_MNE_Doclea_Bjelovine 5.4 Caucasus_BlackSea_Samsun_B_150BC 2.4 Mycenaean_Greek_1350BC 1.4 Levant_Sidon_1800BC Target: Turkish(Muğla) Distance: 0.7316% / 0.00731601 42.6 KAZ_Kipchak 27.2 Anatolia_Center_Phrygian_650BC 13.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA 6.8 Mycenaean_Greek_1350BC 6.6 Paleo-Balkan+Slavic_MNE_Doclea_Bjelovine 3.2 Caucasus_BlackSea_Samsun_B_150BC These are all Vahaduo calculations. Hope it helps you the understand. Schyto Sarmatian ancestry in Medieval Turkics is not Persian at all. Persians are Elamites with minimal real Indo European ancestry. Also Turks have upto %22 East Asian ancestry. And medieval Turkics are all Eurasian.

[@KimseKimsesiz1948]

Great job 👏 bro 😎

[@PaulVonLoren]

Cool, as a dude with lot more East Asian ancestry, its fun to know modern turkish stil have some.

[@jvx5321]

​@@PaulVonLoren Dude Turkics always been 50/50 west/ east eurasian, east asian part isn't tied specifically for Turkics, we also have high cacusiod dna

[@skylinelover9276]

Proto turk's and Mongolian were the same people, their DNA paternal is C, both were Mongoloid race

[@jvx5321]

@@skylinelover9276 Show me proof and evidence that proto turks were only C and didn't had cacasoid dna and cacasoid Hoplogroup? If you don't then i take you're sad little troll who is jealous of Turks because they have done something in their history life

[@ty-zz9ic]

Amazing video!!! Thank you for explaining and doing it justice 👏

[@sanzhar6399]

Fake

[@nenenindonu]

Seljuks emerged from Jand, Kazakhstan not Iran, and they weren't of mixed origins but a confederation of Oghuz Turks who simply ruled over a largely Persian subject population

[@DaveSCameron]

Und dem aryische? #Farsi

[@nadirhikmetkuleli7335]

@@DaveSCameron No they were Turks. Ruling elites were Persianized to some extent, however, vast majority of Seljuks were simply ordinary Turkmens. Today what we call Turks are actually western Turkmens and the very name Turk actually means all Turkic populations.

[@brainblox5629]

​@@DaveSCameronturkic people are genetically more Aryan than Persians

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

​@@brainblox5629Aryan is a Sanskrit word🇮🇳 It's a title for Ancient Indian Kings. Invent a word & use it for yourself. Stop stealing other cultures

[@brainblox5629]

@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Its not for any Indian kings, its especially for Aryan kings of India. Aryans are not native to India, they invaded from Central Asia. The Native population of India is Dravidian, meaning nost of the dark-skinned population of India. And Turks were the ones who almost completely conquered the Aryans of Central Asia. Persians are Mesopotamians who invaded Aryan kingdoms that were built in todays Iran. Since they replaced the Aryans they are more related to other neighbouring populations like Iraqis.

[@darkyboode3239]

4:02 Nah, a flight from Istanbul to Ulaanbaatar would actually take about 6-7 hours.

[@donatist59]

Don't ask an Azerbaijani -- they pretend they were already there and the Armenians only arrived in the Caucasus in the 19th century and that was somehow Russia's fault. These people are deluded.

[@paulochon7692]

I couldn't agree more. They even changed their name from Shirvan to Azerbaijan to appropriate Iranian history and justify their atrocities against minorities

[@neversarium]

Greetings from Kazakhstan. They always say how they're Turkic but it's a lie. They look like Armenians or Persians, eat like them, behave like them, sing like them, their blood is Armenian and Persian and yet they think they're truly Turkic despite real Turks being nomadic, asian looking and free in spirit

[@gardelitozz7184]

Yo NameExplain! missed you so much!, i haven't seen your vids in a while! very cool topic about turkey actually! stay chill men

[@aetu35]

Turks never had Emirates, the Anatolian minor states were Beyliks ruled by Beys

[@mbg8733]

Constantinople originates not from Anatolia, but originates on the other side of the strait.

[@birdy0090]

0:40: 🗺 아나톨리아 역사 간략 설명 2:53: 🌍 터키어는 터키에서 사용되는 언어이지만, 현재 사용되는 땅에서 생겨난 것은 아닙니다. 터키어는 튀르크어족에서 비롯되었으며, 이 어족은 동북 아시아 지역에서 진화했으며, 11세기 경 터키어 사용자들이 아나톨리아로 이주했습니다. 5:48: 🗺 6세기 쾩 튀르크(돌궐)제국 형성. 투르크어 영향이 스텝 초원을 타고 퍼짐. 8:44: 8세기 돌궐 제국의 몰락과, 투르크어의 11세기 아나톨리아 진출. 9:10: 아나톨리아의 전주인들. 히타이트, 프리기아, 리키아, 페르시아, 로마 12:09: 🇹🇷 오스만 제국은 현대 터키로 진화하며, 터키어의 발전을 이끌었습니다.

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

Only a few years ago you found out Byzantine Empire was in fact Roman Empire ?

[@christopherbentley7289]

This was quite heavyweight stuff, Patrick, so thanks for taking such a video on, even though there were a couple of slip-ups in the shape of the 'Hitties' - although, as I have already remarked, that might have been a bid on your part to create a neologism for those people! - and the re-drawing of the map to build a land bridge between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. None too long ago my older brother made that flight from Istanbul to Ulaanbaatar and back again for a holiday in Mongolia, so it was good to see a reference thereto! I can see that there are those who have already commented that an interesting follow-up video to this would be how those European Uralic peoples, the Estonians, Finns and Hungarians got to where they are now, so I'd just like to add my name to those commenting thus.

[@googane7755]

It's interesting thing to note is that the mongol empire accelerated turkic migration to Europe, Anatolia and the Middle-East like on a scale that was never seen before both either from fleeing from the mongols or as foot soldiers occupying the land for the mongols. This had a important impact in Anatolia as it led to huge numbers of turko-mongols coming to the region which formed as an important power base for the eventual Ottomon rise to power.

[@ozanbayrak562]

We don’t see, in history, any mongol tribe or “turko-mongol”(?) tribe settled in Anatolian peninsula. The term “Turko-mongol” is used for Timurid Empire and its army.

[@googane7755]

@@ozanbayrak562 Turko-mongol refers to a mix of turkic or mongol tribes. There are accounts of tartars (which are turko-mongols) settling in Anatolia and would later be the turning point for Bayezid's war against Timur.

[@ozanbayrak562]

@@googane7755 you are mentioning very few numbers of people.

[@googane7755]

@@ozanbayrak562 It didn't exist before but now they did but they are few? Make up your mind. Anyways my broader point was that mongol empire caused a huge number of steppe people either turkic, mongol or both into further migrating into Anatolia.

[@ozanbayrak562]

@@googane7755 Mongol army caused turkic oghuz tribes migrate to west. There is not such a term “Mongol migration”. Mongols were a big army with horses; just male soldiers. If we talk about Anatolia, at the Beylik Era after the mongol invasion, we just see the Beylik of Eratna. The ruler was a governor of mongol Ilhanid Empire, maybe the successors. But we can’t say the same about the people, or very few portion of the population might come from mongol homeland.

[@Dontdoit_]

Everybody is Turkish -Hasanabi 😂😂

[@DaveSCameron]

Nein

[@Dontdoit_]

@@DaveSCameronIssa joke

[@erentashan3505]

Hasan abi diyorsa doğrudur

[@ffgffg645]

Thank you for primary school information for the last two hundred years when History written without the Turks . Without Turks you don’t know even your history… Bravo ! Nice vid .

[@christineholliday4564]

I just watched a documentary on public television in America that was showing that people from Ireland or of Irish decent originally came from protic Turkey. This was very facinating to me as I am of Irish decent but have a deep love of Turkiye & have traveled there twice on extended trips from Istanbul to the Hatay region (Antakya & Samandag). Great article!

[@cagataytezcan1998]

Fazla uçmuşlar 😊 Eğer İrlandalıların Andronova ve Samasya kültür ailesiyle bir bağları varsa bir ihtimal akraba olabiliriz. Olmadıklarını sanıyorum. Ancak Amerikan yerlilerinin Buzul çağına yakın bir dönemde Asya kotasından Amerika kıtasına geçen Sibiryalılar olduğu bir gerçek. Açın bir KızılDerili halısına bakın, kilimine bakın Türk halı-kilimiyle ne kadar benzer olduğunu göreceksiniz. Amerikan yerlileriyle Türklerin uzak akraba olduğunu ilk duyduğumda çok şaşırmamıştım. Dünyaya bu kadar yayılmış bir kavmin Amerika kıtasına da gitmiş olması olağan. İlginçtirki Dünyanın en ücra köşesine gidin orada kesin bir Türk ve Yahudi bulursunuz. Bu iki kavimde bir sır var... Dünya birgün bu sırrı öğrenecek..

[@christineholliday4564]

@@cagataytezcan1998 Turkiye also a lot of European DNA mostly from the Ottoman era due to most women in the Harems were from Europe and any children would DNA from different countries.

[@foxie4105]

I don't think so irish people turkish but we are friends forever. We sent you aid in 1847 when there was a famine. The British did not allow us to send it, but we secretly delivered that aid to you. ❤

[@cagataytezcan1998]

@@christineholliday4564 Doğrudur. Doğal olan budur. Ben daha çok kültürel yakınlıktan bahsettim. Bana göre genetik ikinci önem sırasındadır. Türklük bir dil ve kültür meselesidir. Hatta ağırlıklı olarak siyasi bir mefhumdur.

[@muratyalcn5624]

İrlanda’ bilmem ama galat’ların veya kelt’lerin Anadolu ile bi bağları olduğu kesin

[@lythd]

just to make it clear it was kind of ambiguous in what u said, i wasnt sure if u were just kinda skipping over it and knew this or u didnt, but the name "Byzantine Empire" was only used after its fall by historians, and has come under scrutiny in recent years as well as to whether we should even use it. they always referred to themselves as roman and as the (eastern) roman empire.

[@cliffastdieyoung]

Thank you so much

[@Tumourousgrowth]

just a note: they werent called "hitties" xd they were called "hittites"

[@zekihasan-yg9xv]

Tities?

[@DM-nl7kf]

So, the real Turkic peoples came from Mongolia. Turkic peoples like Turks from modern Turkey, Azerbaijian, Turkmenistan, Kirgistan, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Estonia and Finnland! Good job

[@johnberry3824]

Did anyone refer to the Eastern Roman Empire as "Byzantine" before 18th-century historians? They certainly didn't call themselves that.

[@Μιχάιλ]

Turkic migration happened much earlier than gokturks. Turkic migration mostly contributed to the xiongnu or the migration of huns from mongolia to central asia and then to Europe

[@HatredForMankind]

There are four(plus one) main branches of Turkic people: The Oghuz(Who moved to southwest; Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and various others in europe like Gagauz), The Karluks(who moved to southeast; Uzbeks, Uighurs of China etc.), The Kipchaks(the northwestern Turks, like Tatars, Kazakh, Kırgız people etc) and the Siberian Turks like the Yakuts, Altai people etc. There is also the long distant member, the Oghurs, of which some extinct notable nomadic entities like the Huns were believed to be the member of but nowadays the only surviving member of this group are the Chuvash people of northwestern Russia. In short, Turks did not completely moved out of the broader regions they started off, there are still Yakuts, Tuvans, Altaians, Dolgans etc. living in the same places where the proto-Turks took off their migration.

[@ted9030]

Are Hazaras Turkic?

[@Kaan_is_myname97]

in Afghanistan ? Yes@@ted9030

[@niggacockball7995]

@@ted9030 homo-- group (biloogy) decentent from turk so yes everyone turkk👍

[@zekihasan-yg9xv]

@@ted9030 Mixed. Persians and turkic and more.

[@tege2438]

@@ted9030 It's complicated but we call them Jewish Turks

[@kikujirofromkyoto]

I live in China but I'm of Turkish origin. In the North-Western part of China lies a land secretly referred to as East Turkistan but the Chinese call it Xinjiang. There live a Muslim people who call themselves Uyghurs. I don't speak the language of the Uyghur, however, i can count from 1 to 10 because the numbers are basically the same as Turkish! 😅

[@囸川岡阪]

Hello, I am a Turk from China, with orthodox blue Turkic blood, Ashina noble

[@WelcomeToShorts1]

Ni hao!! I am a Turk from USA.

[@azizsipahi8332]

Türklerin en büyük özelliği bulunduğu coğrafyaya adapte olabilmesidir.

[@user-RedPirateTerrorist]

Like the gypsies

[@fatihyavuz2246]

Türklerin diğer bir özelliğide bulundukları coğrafyaya hükmetmeleridir. Bu sebeple 900 yıl Pers ve 400 yıl Arap milletlerine hükmetmiştir.

[@angelusvastator1297]

I think Turkic were northeast Asian close to Korea, northeast China etc.

[@teovu5557]

"Turks" didnt all migrate to Turkey. Literally 99% of ALL of central asia today is Turk like Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,Kazakhstan,Krygzstan and like 8 Russian federal republics and many regions of western China.

[@joebidet2050]

Just like kyrgyz people migrated to modern day kyrgyzstan 2000 years ago kicking out saka people

[@teovu5557]

​@@joebidet2050 krgyz didnt come to modern day Kyrgyzstan region til the 1300s ad(less than 800 years ago) Saka didnt leave the general area til the Khotan kingdom fell in 1000ad. (Khotan Kingdom was the last Saka state in the world)

[@RhiannonSenpai]

1:07 By that logic Australia is in Europe because they compete in Eurovision lol. Great video btw 👍.

[@spacemarine7431]

Seljuks Turkish state not persion.

[@robbiejay]

I am here for the stupid commments like "there is no Turk, they are just assimilated Greeks" or "Hungarians and Turks are far cousins" Who cares?? No race is isolated. The human history is full of wars and immigration. Of course we got mixed up.

[@uncipaws7643]

I heard about "Turkestan" denoting roughly the area between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert, where Turkic languages are spoken. I once travelled on the "Turksib", the "Turkestan-Siberian Railway" going north-south from Russia to Kazakhstan. At some point Turkestan was also the name of a Soviet Republic. Which means that the borders of a lot of today's -stan countries around there are relatively recent.

[@mr.purple1779]

More likely, Turkestan during the Mongol empire - southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. The Turko-Mongols came from Mongolia to (Iran) Turkmenistan. But the northern forest-steppe, western Siberia and Russia before the Mongols looked like Tatarstan and was called the Polovtsian steppe (Desht i Kipchak).

[@mrtats6590]

12:16 They were not emirates, they were beyliks.

[@ritvikawasthi8146]

Simple answer: Horse.

[@熊唯嘉]

5:46 Old Turkic belongs to the Siberian (Northeastern) branch of Turkic language, while modern Turkish belongs to the Southwestern (Oghuz). Therefore Old Turkic is more like a great uncle of modern Turkish.

[@c.t.9966]

The Name of this country is now Türkiye!

[@louismelahn1805]

9:15: Pretty sure they were “Hittites,” not “Hitties” (unless that’s a joke that went over my head).

[@AlifBe-oj2wy]

Usmoniy turklar asosan ikki turklardan tashkil topgan. Turk va Turkman. Turklar Uzbekiston hududidan ketishgan. Turkmanlar turkmaniston yerlaridan ketganlar. Ularning qadimiy tili uzbek tiliga juda yaqindir. Keyinchalik Qarluq(Uzbek) tiliga Ozar+Turkman tili qushilib hozirgi turkiya tilini hosil qilgandir. Usmon Gozining urug'i Kai bu Samarqand Fergona va Buhoroda hali ham bor. Haqiyqiy turklar ota makani Uzbekistondir(Turon)Movorounnahr

[@TurkishZombie]

1:10 Turkish government protests the Eurovision for political reasons. Turkey is diverse but we are mostly European people. Even after WW1, quarter of Turkish citizens originated from Caucasia and the Balkans.

[@MehmetMehmet-y8c]

Nobody said we are pure bloods retard

[@unodos.4557]

Rourans were proto-mongolic and the han texts from china claim rourans made up a tribe of the xiongnu (a proto-turkic predecessor) confederation. Also turkic people’s made good portion of genghis khan’s mongol empire. So its worth noting turkic and mongolic nomads have traditionally always intermixed as much as they fought each other.

[@ElGeyikli]

I think if you’d explain the internal qualification of turcic languages, it could complete your video. Anatolian Turkish

[@arifdursun7495]

There were Scythians in Anatolia long before the westward migration from central asia. So the Turks were indigenous to Anatolia rather than only migrating bunch of nomads. This migration story paves the academic grounds for "throw-this-goat-shepherds-back-to-Central-Asia" project.

[@AFK_AFK]

@NameExplain Actually in all languages, country name is Türkiye. Please correct this; if you don't make it consciously.

[@h.mahmutdogan2708]

Romanus Diógenes assembled an army more crowded than a hundred thousand not 40 thousand. The Seljuk soldiers were thrilled at the sight of the Roman army. But Sultan Alparslan gave them a tough speech and led them to battle.

[@nopurposeposting1548]

eastern roman empire doesnt refer themselves as byzantine btw, its a term made by a german historian long time in the future after the fall

[@honeymoonapples]

A few mistakes... 1. It's "Hittites" not "Hitties" (the visual is wrong and you said it wrong) 2. There were Greek colonies and cities in Anatolia too, so when you list out who used to live there (Hittites, Phrygians, etc.), Greeks should be included (e.g., the region of Ionia). 3. Greek was always spoken in many parts of the eastern half of the roman empire, not only after the collapse of the western part of the empire. It wasn't just spoken by the regular people either--it was the administrative language in many places in the east. Even in the western half of the empire, most educated people spoke greek (in addition to Latin). For example, Ceasar spoke Greek.

[@TheEbola]

Turkc or Ural/Altaic is not only a language group but also a racial group. All Turkic, Ural Altaic speaking people has the same ancestors and originates from the same place.

[@zekihasan-yg9xv]

As do native Americans, all related.

[@nurettinsarul]

Pre-Turks emigrated to the east and the west from the area in the north of Caucasia and Xazar lake 6-7 thousand years ago. When Turks lived in Mongolia, Mongols were living in the far east. Because of the bad weather conditions Turks in Mongolia migrated out, then Mongols migrated in. When some turks lived in Mongolia, many Turks were living in sybiria, central asia and eastern Europe.

[@jensschroder8214]

I just have to go to any German city and I'll hear Turkish. The transmigration of peoples has not yet been completed.

[@TheDiamondBladeHD]

genghis khan is smiling in his grave somewhere

[@ExhaustinglyBored]

It never will be

[@DoofyGilmore1299]

Germany? You mean the north west Turkiye?

[@kaslzencierkek7726]

​@@DoofyGilmore1299 no its called türkisch colony of west germania

[@Arab--Man]

to us: that occupied land right above Syria... is forever Greek 🇬🇷

[@Taymur_conquerer]

😅😅😅

[@Taymur_conquerer]

In your fantazy

[@Arab--Man]

@@Taymur_conquerer Greek, not mongol

[@houseaccount3293]

Um, Historic records along with genetic testing show the original Turk tribes originated from in the region with the city Tashkent. The Turks colonized Eastern Europe along with Most of the middle east and India. The Turks in Turkey are apart of the same tribe that founded Turkmenistan. Making the Turks in Turkey, Azerbaijani and Turkmenistan being the largest ethnic group of Turks. And Turkey and Azerbaijani having a 1 nation 2 countries policy between the two countries.

[@ParagonCS]

You forgot about the whole bunch of Tatar and Yakut people in Russia nowadays

[@LuminantLion]

The states in Anatolia after the Mongols came and went weren't Emirates, they were Beyliks, do not call them Emirates

[@Aziz_II.Efraim]

Fun fact: Modern turkish similar to gokturk turkish and also modern Turkish isnt similar to ottoman turkish For example word of God; Göktrukish: Tengri Modern turkish:Tanri Ottoman turkish: Xuda, îlah Word of good Gokturk:edgi Modern turkish:iyi Otto:salih Word of home Gokturk: eb Modern turkish:ev (b to v) Ottoman turkish: beyt

[@tunahan4418]

I want to add that ottoman Turkish is much like Latin, it was an artificial language, a mix of Arabic Turkish and persian, the common Turk spoke Turkish and didn't speak ottoman Turkish. It's the common Turkish that evolved eventually into modern Turkish but specifically from Istanbul.

[@fariesz6786]

that's why scholars often call the language the actual Roman people spoke "Vulgar Latin" when it was just the commonly spoken tongue as opposed to the embroidered literary language

[@user-dc2gl3pc6e]

Dear god there is so much incorrect in this video I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Please no one take this video as anything remotely educational…

[@hurguler]

There are millions of Turkic speakers in China, Afghanistan, Iran, in Russia, all the way to Europe. In Iran alone there are more than 20 million Turkic speakers. The Westernmost native speakers are probably the Gagauz Turks in Moldova. In Russia they're very wide spread, from Saka/Yakut in the East to Chuvash in the West to Crimean Tatars in the South. In China it's not just the Uyghur Turks but there are Turkic speaking people in other parts of China as well. The reason for such a wide range of Turkic speakers is that Turkic Khans established Empires which assimilated the local people. Some of the Turkic influences disappeared over time such as the Mughals in India.

[@peters972]

I think KZbin recommended this video about Turkey because it is thanksgiving. But nevertheless, was very interesting, thank you.

[@cjc2]

Did the native Anatolian/Greek speaking people intermarry with the Turkic settlers from the east? Or did the Anatolian people just became Turkic culturally over a long time? Also did the Turks bring Islam to the peninsula or did they have their own central Asian religions and was replaced by Islam later on?

[@yusufardagures5490]

1- Yes they were inter-marriafes between Greeks armenians and Turks. 2- Yes it was a long process that took around 500 years to turkify ‘most’ of the region 3- They were Muslims before the conquest of Anatolia but they still had lots of pagan traditions and that never neded even today, also not all the Turks became Muslim overnight it also took centuries and some of them became christian.

[@DoofyGilmore1299]

RUM and Ottomans had diffrent policies against minorities Sultanate of Rum that controlled the inner anatolia prefer to assmylate the greek speaking native anatolians (not to confused with armenians and greeks, proto anatolians are diffrent people) meanwhile Ottomans generally didint really cared about the culture of the people in they nation, so greeks and armenians continue to live in anatolia until 20th century with minimal amount of intermarriages unlike most people know (muslim women was prohibited to marry with a christian and Turks and christian minorities lived in diffrent districts most of the time) when we look at the genetic make up of modern Turkish people it is usually mix of proto anatolian and Oghuz Turk dna

[@cjc2]

Fascinating. I visited Istanbul a few years ago and was amazed at the beauty and culture. Such a cosmopolitan city with a variety of people. I noticed many blondes with blue eyes and some had more Asian features (eyes). I imagine this is the result of being at the cross roads of many great empires and cultures over the centuries.

[@azizsipahi8332]

@@cjc2 1-Türkler kız alıp verirken,yani çocuklarını evlendirirken herkes ile evlendirmez.Sizce ne kadar karışabilirler? 2-Türkler 24 boydur ve bu boyların içinde sarışın renkli gözlü olanlarda vardır.Bilmediğiniz bilgiler yüzünden fikirlerinizin yanlış olduğunu belirtmek istedim.

[@ryandepp7640]

Also worthy of note is Ataturk’s important role in Turkish language by changing the orthography from using the Arabic script to using Latin as part of his political initiative to move closer to the West

[@tonegrail650]

An important point is that Turks left little genetic impact on the population of Anatolia. It became Turkified due to the elite dominance of a small powerful group of Turkish speakers who for the most part converted the existing Greek speaking Christian Orthodox population to Islam by either force or economic and social pressure of dhimmitude, concubinage (kidnapping young Christian girls for sexual slavery), and devshirme (kidnapping young Christian boys for military slavery). Therefore the bulk of the Turkish speakers of Anatolia aren't actually Turks but assimilated Turkified Greeks. Being Muslims, the Turks also had a habit of practicing "marriage by capture" of Christian Greek women and girls, forcing them into their harems and spawning the next generation of "Turks". Hence, the reason why the majority of Turks are no longer Asian in appearance like their ancestors who originated in Mongolia. Also of note is that when the Turks arrived in Anatolia, they were already mixed to some extent with the original Persian-speaking inhabitants of central Asia, where they passed though, formerly the home of the Scythians, a Persian people. As they raped, and pillaged their way westward through Scythia, they picked up a lot a Persian genes and customs as evident in the current inhabitants of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Xinjiang and to a lesser extent, Kazahkstan and Kirghizstan.

[@Himes5564]

1. We are not from Mongolia,2. There are dozens of Turkish tribes and they all look different, we Oguz Turks in Anatolia do not have an Asian appearance.

[@mr.purple1779]

The Persians are not associated with the Scythians. The Scythians are either a local group in Europe or a Siberian group in Altai.

[@sakinehmehrabi5217]

At least 1/3 of people in Iran speak Turkish (accents like, Azari, Qashqay and turkeman) knowing Azari makes you understand Turkish in turkey almost 95%

[@fatihyavuz2246]

Indeed! I'm a Turk from Turkey and i understand all azerbaijani people. Azerbaijani is like a dialect of turkish. Salam ez Torkiye to Iran ve Azerbaycan

[@aliet8350]

No we don't 20% kurds , 20% mongols and turks 60% persians

[@coweatsman]

18 hours from Istanbul to Ulaanbaatar by jet for 5,000 km? That's awfully slow. Should take 5 or 6.

[@yorgunsamuray]

Even Japan takes 12 hours (Istanbul-Tokyo route). I think he wanted to say 8.

[@WhizzKid2012]

he wanted to say 8

[@jackmack6217]

10:09 they never referred to themselves are "Byzantines" that's a modern term to delegitimize them from their roman ancestry. They called themselves "Imperium Romanum" later on in medieval Greek "Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων" which means Roman empire. The name "Byzantine Empire" is an anachronist term used by 15th century historians to slander the legacy of Easter Rome painting them as a "Greek Empire," rather than as romans. Calling it the Byzantine Empire is kind of like calling the French Empire or British Empire Parisian Empire/Londonian Empire. Also there was never a official split between western Rome and eastern Rome. In their eyes it was one singular empire with two rules, terms like Eastern and Western Roman Empire are modern terms, The Roman Empire was still the same when two Emperor's split it into two administrative parts, but it still continued as the Roman Empire. When the West fell, nothing changed for the Eastern remaining part, it was still the Roman Empire, it didn't change state into a byzantine Greek state or anything, it was and will always be the roman empire.

[@vedatuzunlu8869]

You should explain us ,how The USA got The America.Where did they started?

[@Christina_467]

Hello from Kazakhstan ❤

[@eeshtarr]

Hitties? Surely, you mean "Hittites"

[@batuhankala]

Giant time gaps killed the integrity of this video. The arrival of Turks in Anatolia is much much larger tale with a lot to explain.

[@magnvss]

The video make it seems as if Greek speakers and Armenians and Assyrians and Kurdish and Arabic speakers (et cetera) were never a thing in the whole of Anatolia and/or disappeared a very long time ago. While in fact whether many still exist (in spite of the effort to make them disappear or erase their language) or their eradication was relatively quite a close event historically (no need to clarify about the expulsion of the Greeks or erasure of the Armenians and with them the effort against of the Assyrians I guess, or the current day Kurdish fight).

[@Varox2009]

As a Turk, I was tired of videos telling about the historical change of Anatolian civilizations under the name of the history of Turks. Even though it only tells about the Gokturk Khanate, it is a very successful video.

[@deadbeat5165]

turkey isnt turkic its just turkified same with azerbaijan

[@cx9882]

Dude this video full of mistakes.

[@Infielatento]

Wasn't Armenians mentioned in 9:20 by accident or to avoid offending the Turkish audience?

[@issith7340]

Answer: by genocides: of the greeks, Armenians, asirians, etc etc. The polioof genocides is still continuing in turkey. Now specifically against kurdis people.

[@phishenthusiast3283]

Which is ironic because the Kurdish people aided in the genocide and are now occupying the land.

[@cagataytezcan1998]

Ermeniler ve Kürtler işledikleri suçları Avrupada veya Amerikada işleseydi Şu An tam bşr soykırıma uğraşmıştı ve büyük ihtimal kemiklerinden anıtlar dikilmişti. Dua edin Türkler merhametli ve sabırlı bir millettir.

[@pierreabbat6157]

Here's another name to explain: Azerbaijan. The -jan at the end is from an Iranian suffix -akan, which also occurs in Armenian, which borrowed a lot of vocabulary from Iranian languages.

[@MarcusLangbart]

the -stan of Hayastan(Armenia) has something to do with this or it's an entirely different topic? I don't know if -jan and -stan have some correlation. thanks

[@paulochon7692]

Actually the modern "country" of azerbaijan was called Shirvan but stole the name of the iranian province of azerbaijan to appripriate their history and justify their invasions and genocides

[@zekihasan-yg9xv]

@@paulochon7692 I bellive the name comes from a rulers name. Hazar Bey Can. Can is a title used on always any one. In Japan it is San, Iran, Yan, Turkic Can. Today, Canim.

[@pierreabbat6157]

@@MarcusLangbart "-stan" is an Iranian suffix, with an Indic cognate "-sthan" as in Rajasthan, from the same root as "state". A lot of stans are countries or states, but Bimaristan is a hospital.

[@alpaykasal2902]

Fun fact... "Ottoman" is a mispronunciation of "Osman", I believe it was the British who got it wrong, and Europe stuck with it. Another fun fact... The bird called turkey is named as such bc Europeans buying this foreign poultry from the Turks, who basically ran the silk road and sold goods across it, associated the giant bird with the Turk merchants. Funnily, we Turks call the same bird Hindi, named for the merchants who sold them in India. India=Hindistan in turkish.