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At 16:16 27.3.2004, Babnol Rodlox wrote:
>which were the first Turkic people in the region?
>*curious*
The Seljuks, or _Selcuk_ in modern Turkish spelling.
They came in in the 10th century IIANM. The Ottomans
came a few hundred years later. In practice the latter
established a new dynasty which took over much of the
Selcuk population, which had spread also to Iraq, Syria
and Palestine. In fact most of the lordlings in the area
when the crusaders came there were Selcuks. Their internal
rivalry and disorganization was what gave the French their
initial successes! The man who changed this, Salah-ad-Din,
was a Kurd, BTW.
FWIW there was a Turkish guy named _Selcuk_ at my primary school.
/BP 8^)
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