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( Turkic peoples)
More than 160 million[1] Indigenous ethnicities and emigrant communities living in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, People's Republic of China (Xinjiang) , Mongolia, Russia, Iran, Bulgaria, Moldova (Gagauz Autonomous Republic), Iraq, Syria, Greece, Romania, Western Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden et al), United States, Canada, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Australia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine. The Turkic peoples (or simply Turks) are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family.[5] They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Turkish people, as well as past civilizations such as the Xiongnu, Cumans, Avars, Bulgars, Huns, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans and Timurids.[6][7][8] Many of the Turkic peoples have their homelands in Inner Asia, where the Turkic peoples originated from, but since then Turkic languages have spread, through migrations and conquests, to other locations including present-day Turkey. While the term Turk may refer to a member of any Turkic people, the term Turkish usually refers specifically to the people and language of Turkey.
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