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HISTORICAL KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES

''The following listed kingdoms and empires were at some time ruled by Turkic kings/ Khan s/ Shah s or other dynasties. Mentioning of any particular entity in this place should not be read to mean that the entity as a whole was Turkic or even had more than a significant minority of Turkic subjects.''

Xiongnu ( 3rd Century BC - 4th Century AD ) (disputed)

Huns ( 4th Century - 5th Century ) (disputed)

Gokturk State ( 552 - 744 )

Bulgars ( 2nd - 9th Century ) (origin of Proto-Bulgars disputed)

--- Great Bulgaria ( 580s - 635 )

--- Volga Bulgaria ( 800 - 1236 )

Pechenegs ( 860 - 1091 )

Khazars ( 7th - 10th Century )

Uyghur State ( 744 - 840 )

Kypchaks

Kimeks

Saqsin

Kara-Khanid Khanate ( 840 - 1042 )

Ghaznavid Empire ( 962 - 1187 ) (''Turkish identity'' of the dynasty strongly disputed {Link without Title} )

Khwarezm-Shahs ( 1097 - 1231 ) (disputed)

Seljuk Turks ( 1073 - 1307 )

Karamanid ( 1207 - 1487 )

Mamluks ( 1250 - 1517 )

Khanate Of Kazan ( 1438 - 1552 )

Khanate Of Astrakhan ( 1430s - 1554 )

Siberia Khanate ( 1430s - 1576 )

Qasim Khanate (15th -17th century)

Kazakhs

Khanate Of Crimea ( 1441 - 1783 )

Jagoldai ( 15th - 17th Century )

Ottoman Empire ( 1299 - 1922 )

Turkic-Mongolian States

Turkic-Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan ( 13th Century )

Golden Horde (Kipchak Khanate) ( 1227 - 1502 )

Turkic-Mongol Empire of Timur Lenk ( 1370 - 1506 )

Mogul Empire in 'Hind(ustan)', i.e. the Indian subcontinent, at (or near; and succeeding he several Turkic sultanates of) Delhi; culturally more Persian ( 1526 - 1858 )

Turkic States in Eastern Europe

The Avar kingdom (origin and language of Avars disputed)

Crimean Khanate

MODERN TURKIC COUNTRIES

Nation states

Turkey (established 1923 )

Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus (established 1983 but internationally only recognised by Turkey)

various former constitutive republics of the USSR, all established at its 1991 dismembring:

--- Azerbaijan

--- Kazakhstan

--- Kyrgyzstan

--- Turkmenistan

--- Uzbekistan

Autonomous Turkic republics in the Russian Federation

Altai Republic

Bashkortostan

Chuvashia

Dagestan

Kabardino-Balkaria

Karachay-Cherkessia

Khakassia

Sakha (Yakutia) Republic

Tatarstan

Tuva

Other Autonomous Turkic regions

Gagauzia , in Moldova

East Turkestan (officially Xinjiang), in People's Republic Of China

Crimea , in Ukraine

Iranian Azerbaijan , in Iran

SEE ALSO

Turkic Peoples

Turkic Languages

EXTERNAL LINKS

InfoTurkish

A comparative essay on the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires