Talk:Turkic migration

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This is a rather bizarre article. It begins,

"The Turkic migration as defined in this article was the expansion of the Turkic peoples across most of Central Asia into Europe and the Middle East between the 6th and 11th centuries AD,"

but very little of the article is actually about this. Perhaps much of the material needs to be moved to a new article under a different name, or else this intro needs to be changed.

75.79.68.179 (talk) 02:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

The factual material of the East Asian history contained in this article will be quite unfamiliar to many, particularly western, readers. Unfortunately, the style of the author appears somewhat rambling and unclear in places, with, for example, a number of untranslated Chinese terms. Dates and time periods, the exact relationship of the North Asian nomadic tribes to the successive Chinese dynasties need to be clarified. In particular, the formation of the Xiong-nu, and their identification with the historical Huns of the late Roman Empire is not nearly as clear-cut as the author would wish to imply. Geoff Powers (talk) 12:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

This whole article is VERY, VERY inaccurate, needs more updated factual references!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.39.100 (talk) 23:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Bulgars

Almost nothing is said about the Bulgars in this article. I understand that it is not clear whether they were of Turkic origin but this is the most popular theory and I think that the article should tell about them a little bit more. And one more thing - if Volga Bulgars are considered to be Hun's successors then all Bulgars in the Old Great Bulgaria are such because Volga Bulgars originated from them. I propose changing 'Volga Bulgars' in this context with simply 'Bulgars' which is more accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gur4eto (talk • contribs) 18:03, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Intro

Great intro. Really clears up some misconceptions about the so-called "mass migrations" of the late classical and early medieval periods Hxseek (talk) 01:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Genetic researches!?

I understand, this article is about history but genetic researches completely disproved the Turkic migration into eastern Europe. Please add some citations in this article from those genetic researches. Maybe in a section called "Controversies".

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120136832/abstract

"The genetic variation observed among the Hungarians resembled closely that found in other European populations. The Hungarians could not be distinguished from the neighboring populations (e.g., the Austrians) any more than from their Finno-Ugric linguistic relatives."

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002929707616279

"It is interesting to note that Turks present shorter genetic distances to the British than to central Asians, even though the central Asian populations' samples in the present study speak Turkic languages."

http://www.springerlink.com/content/pcn3wtxnqngxlcql/

"A previous analysis of mtDNA variation in the Caucasus found that Indo-European-speaking Armenians and Turkic-speaking Azerbaijanians were more closely related genetically to other Caucasus populations (who speak Caucasian languages) than to other Indo-European or Turkic groups, respectively. Armenian and Azerbaijanian therefore represent language replacements, possibly via elite dominance involving primarily male migrants, in which case genetic relationships of Armenians and Azerbaijanians based on the Y-chromosome should more closely reflect their linguistic relationships."

http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5868/

"In particular, Gagauzes, a Turkic speaking population, show closer affinities not to other Turkic peoples, but to their geographical neighbors."

--6F-6C-63-61-79 (talk) 06:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

you are being wrong. yes genetic researches give us some information about steppe states but never forget that steppe confederations were always included a lot of ethnic groups. you can use genetic researches to prove something in a lot of issues, but not this.

by the way, it makes no sense to say gagauzes aren't turkic. look at their flama, their language, their traditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.14.25.144 (talk) 16:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Khazars and Turgesh

This is a rather long article (more than 32 kbyte) But even than some stuff is missing. Where are Khazars and Turgesh (political offsprings of Göktürks) ? (No mention of Turgesh and only a link to Khazars.) I think for the article, they are much more important than people of ancient ages whose Turkic identity is debatable. In addition to Khazars and Turgesh, 11-12 century Turkic migrations to Ukraina (ie, Pechenegs, Kypchak etc.) and Turkic migrations to India during Islamic era also deserve a few words. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 16:36, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. I don't see a refutation of Xashaiar's dichotomy so we'll let it stand. --rgpk (comment) 17:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Turkic migration → Turkic expansion — Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC) The academic name for Turkic migrations is Turkic expansion, for example in Mallory, J. P. .--Kavas (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

• Support for common name and fidelity to sources. Quigley (talk) 02:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
• Strong oppose Turkic expansion is an expression used for later developments. Turkic migration deals with migration of people from their homeland to where "there was previously no turkic speaking people". Thus "Turkic migration" and "turkic expansion" (both correct terminologies) refer to different topics. Xashaiar (talk) 14:21, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
• Comment Can you explain what Turkic expansion is? And why is there a redirect from Turkic expansion to this page? Kavas (talk) 02:57, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

The redirect is there because of 1. common mistake made by people in confusing these two things, 2. usually topics that are covered in other articles and no other special links exist for them are redirected to the existing detailed articles , ... (see why we redirect things). Finally "turkic expansion" would, I think, be something related to what later was called "Seljuq Empire expansion/formation". Xashaiar (talk) 13:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Wouldn't "Seljuq Empire expansion/formation" be "Turkish expansion"? —  AjaxSmack  02:43, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Taking into account the specific meaning of "Turkish", I guess Turkic is relevant. Xashaiar (talk) 13:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Uyghurs section name

I feel like the short paragraph listed under the title "Uyghurs" is not really about Uyghurs, but more of a list of various Turkic groups, of which the Uyghurs are one group, barely mentioned. I propose either renaming the section to something like "Other Groups" or "Later Groups" as the first few words of the section imply, or attaching this short list to a different section. It seems too small to warrant its own large subheading like that. -Zhukant (talk) 20:04, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

The Huns called themselves the Acatir

Where do you have any source for this? What "Huns" do you mean? Centrum99 (talk) 08:57, 17 January 2017 (UTC)