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Mongolian Traditional Clothing: Nomadic Beauty Mongolian traditional clothing This video is a twin to "Turkish Traditional clothes: East meets West" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm0Kth7sYtk Help choose my new "Altaic Beauty" video by voting here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/ All pictures from: http://www.skiouros.net/varia/ncmpr/ncmpr.htm See more pictures here: http://face-music.ch/bi_bid/trad_costumes_en.html Tags: Mongolian Mongol Mongolia folk dress outfits costumes Central Asia Siberia Altaic nomadic nomad

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Chuvash Beauty Beauty of the Chuvash people and culture. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic The Chuvash are a Turkic people usually associated with Chuvashia. According to the Soviet census of 1989, the Chuvash population numbered 1,843,300 ; 907,000 of these lived in Chuvashia. The remainder lived in Tatarstan's Aqsubay, Bua, Nurlat, Täteş, Çirmeşän, Çüpräle rayons, Bashkortostan, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Tyumen, Kemerovo, Orenburg, Moscow oblasts of Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, as well as Kazakhstan and Ukraine. They are divided into three groups: Hill Chuvashs in northern and northeastern Chuvashia; Meadow Chuvashs in central and southwestern Chuvashia; and Downer Chuvashs in southern Chuvashia and outside of Chuvashia. They speak the Chuvash language and are predominantly Orthodox Christian, with some pre-Christian traditions. In addition to the Chuvash language, many Chuvash people also use the Russian and Tatar languages. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvash_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvashia The song is called Singir Singir and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-2_14.html Tags: Chuvash Chuvashia Turkic Altaic Turks costoms culture folk music slideshow

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Dolgan and Siberian Altaic Peoples Beauty Beauty of the Dolgan and Siberian Altaic people and culture. Branch of the Altaic family: Dolgan and Yakuts; Turkic Evens and Evenks; Tungusic Note: Due to the rarest of Dolgan photos I used photos of Yakut (Sakha) and Tungusic reindeer herders. The Dolgan are mostly reindeer herders and the costumes you see in this video look similar to Dolgan costume. However the second photo and the last photo in this video are Dolgan.The music is a Yakut (Sakha) folk song. Here is some Dolgan pictures. However due to copyright I could not use them in the video. http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/gallery2/arctic/peoples/dolgan/dolgan.htm ____________________________ Dolgans (Russian: долганы; self-designation: долган, тыа-кихи, саха) are a Turkic people, who inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The 2002 Census counted 7,261 Dolgans. This number includes 5,517 in former Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. There are 26 Dolgans in Ukraine, four of whom speak Dolgani (2001 Ukrainian Census). Linguists believe that the Dolgans speak a dialect of the Yakut language, called Dolgan. Dolgan identity emerged in the 19th early 20th century, when some of the Evenks, Yakuts, Enets, and the so-called Tundra peasants migrated to the region away from the Lena River and Olenyok River. Originally, the Dolgans were nomadic reindeer breeders and hunters. They were eventually forced to settle and form kolkhozes during the Soviet times, engaging in reindeer breeding, hunting, fishing, dairy farming as well as market gardening). Most Dolgans belong to the Russian Orthodox Church; old animistic beliefs, however, survive among them. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolgans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolgan_language The song is called "Instrumental music with khomus leading" and a free mp3 can be found here: http://www.yakutiatoday.com/gallery/music_ethno.shtml Tags: Dolgans Yakuts Sakha Turkic Altaic Taymyr reindeer culture Siberia

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Turks of the Balkans Beauty Beauty of the Balkan Turkic culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Western Trace Turks: Turks form an officially unrecognized minority group in Greece, traditionally settled in the northeastern region of Thrace, also known as Greek or Western Thrace to distinguish it from the parts of Thrace which belong to Bulgaria and Turkey. According to official sources, they number approximately 50,000, out of the approximately 98,000. Turks of Bulgaria: Turks in Bulgaria constituted 9.4% of the total population in 2001 and are the largest minority group in Bulgaria. The Turks in Bulgaria are descendants of the early Turkic settlers who came from Anatolia across the narrows of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans during late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. However some Turks are descendants of earlier medieval Oğuz, Pecheneg, and Cuman Turkic tribes. Turks of Macedonia: There has been various tribes in Macedonia throughout history. Some Turkic clans such as Huns, Avars, Cumans, Pechenegs and Ottoman Turks lived for a long time in this region. Many Turkish immigrants from Anatolia settled in Macedonia after 1300. There were 203,000 Turks in Macedonia in 1953, but after population exchanges have been made with Turkey only part of the population remained in Macedonia. Today, there are 77,959 Turks living in the country. Some quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_of_Western_Thrace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_the_Republic_of_Macedonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Bulgaria The song is called "Þefo'nun Evi" and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-2_14.html Tags: Trace Western Greece Macedonia Bulgaria Turkish Turkic Altaic

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Gagauz Beauty Beauty of the Gagauz culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Sorry this video is so short. Gagauz pictures are hard to find. The Gagauz is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Turkic ethnic group in southern Moldova (Gagauzia) and southwestern Ukraine (Budjak) that number around 250,000. According to one of the theories the Gagauz descend from the Seljuk Turks that settled in Dobruja (Bulgarian: Dobrudzha (Добруджа); Turkish: Dobruca; Romanian: Dobrogea) alongside the Pechenegs, Uz (Oghuz) and Cuman (Kipchak) people that followed the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kaykaus II (1236-1276). More specifically, one clan of Oghuz Turks migrated to the Balkans during the inter-tribal conflicts with other Turks. After settling in the eastern Balkans (Bulgaria) this clan converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity in the 13th century and became known as "Gagauz Turks". Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia The song is called Mari Kýz and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-1_580.html Tags: Gagauz Gagauzia Moldova Turkish Turkic Turks Altaic folk music custume

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Bashkir Beauty Beauty of the Bashkir culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. A insignificant number of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Samara, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia. Bashkirs are concentrated on the slopes and confines of the southern Ural Mountains and the neighboring plains. They speak the Kypchak-based Bashkir language, a close relative of the Tatar language. Most Bashkirs also speak Russian: some as a second language, and some as their first language, regarding Bashkir as a language spoken by their grandparents. Some Bashkirs traditionally practiced agriculture, cattle-rearing and bee-keeping. The nomadic Bashkirs wandered either the mountains or the steppes, herding cattle. Bashkir national dishes include a kind of gruel called yûryu, and a cheese named skûrt. Bashkirs had a reputation as a hospitable but suspicious people, apt to plunder and disinclined to hard work. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The song is called Uralým and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-1_580.html Tags: Bashkir Bashkortostan Turkic Turks Altaic folk music

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Karakalpak Beauty Beauty of the Karakalpak culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Thank you David and Sue Richardson for allowing me to use your pictures. Please check out thier website: http://www.karakalpak.com/index.html Thank you so much Berdakh Bayimbetov for letting me use your pictures and music. Also check out his website for Kalakalpak music: http://berdakb.narod.ru/ The Karakalpaks (also Qaraqalpaqs) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly live in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya and in the (former) delta of Amu Darya on the southern shore of the Aral Sea. However, small numbers can also be found in Iran, and Turkey, and smaller communities in Kazakstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. The name "Karakalpak" comes from two words: "Kara" meaning black, and "Kalpak" meaning hat. The Karakalpaks probably number about 650,000 worldwide, out of which about 500,000 live in the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The Karakalpaks in Turkey are primarily concentrated in the mountains of eastern Turkey near the headwaters of the Murat River. Those in Iran live mainly on the southern shores of Lake Urmia, which is located in the northwestern corner of the country. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakalpaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakalpakstan The song is called Awilimda toy (Wedding in my village) by Bairam To'remuratov and a free mp3 can be found here: http://berdakb.narod.ru/root/lang/eng/index.htm Tags: Karakalpak Qaraqalpaqs Karakalpakstan Turkic Turks Central Asia Uzbekistan Altaic

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Turkish Cypriot Beauty Beauty of the Turkish Cypriot culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Turkish Cypriots (Turkish: Kıbrıs Türkleri or Kıbrıslı Türkler, Greek: Τουρκοκύπριοι) are the ethnically Turkish inhabitants of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is sometimes used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, as opposed to the Turkish migrants who have settled there since the Cyprus conflict of 1974. The vast majority of Turkish Cypriots reside in Northern Cyprus, which occupies the northern one-third of the island. It is estimated that there are 300,000 Turkish Cypriots worldwide. The results of a census that took place in Northern Cyprus at the end of April 2006 indicated that the Turkish Cypriot population was 140,000 out of a total population of 264,172. An island-wide census in 1960 indicated the number of Turkish Cypriots as 102,000 and Greek Cypriots as 450,000. Cypriot Turkish is the native language of Turkish Cypriots, some can speak English or Greek in the level of mother tongue. Due to historical reasons and social contacts Turkish Cypriot language heavily influence by Cypriot Greek and, or British English. And also due to remote isolation over the years from Turkey's language development, some old Turkish elements remained in the language. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Cypriot All pictures from here: http://www.iskelefolkdance.org/english/ourphotos2.html The pictures are of a Turkish Cypriot dance group called İskele. http://www.iskelefolkdance.org/english/index.html It is a wonderful website and it tells alot of Turkish Cypriot culture. The song is called Münüse and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-2_14.html Tags: Turkish Cypriot K.K.T.C. Turkic Altaic folk TRNC Republic of Northern Cyprus Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti KKTC

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Yugur Beauty Beauty of the the Yugur culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic and Mongolian. The Yugurs (simplified Chinese: 裕固族; traditional Chinese: 裕固族; pinyin: Yùgù Zú), or Yellow Uyghurs as they are traditionally known, are one of China's 56 officially recognized nationalities, consisting of 13,719 persons according to the 2000 census. The Yugur live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gānsù Province. About 4,600 of the Yugurs speak a Turkic language and about 2,800 a Mongolic language; the remaining Yugurs of the Autonomous County lost their respective Yugur language and speak Chinese. A very small number of the Yugur reportedly speak Tibetan. They use Chinese for intercommunication. Both Yugur languages are now unwritten, although vertical Uyghur script was in use in some Yugur communities till end of 18th century. The Turkic speaking Yugurs are considered to be the descendants of a group of Uyghurs who fled from Mongolia southwards to Gānsù, after the collapse of the Uyghur Empire in 840 A.D., and soon established there a prosperous Ganzhou Kingdom (870-1036 A.D.) with capital near present Zhangye city on the foots of Nan Shan Mountains in the valley of the Ejin River (Black River). Population of this Kingdom, that was estimated at 300,000 in Song Dynasty chronicles, worshipped Manichaeism and Buddhism in numerous temples flourished throughout the country and had forcibly been incorporated into Tangut Kingdom, despite of fierce resistance, after bloody war of 1028-1036 A.D.( Mahmut Kashgari who lived at the time in Kashgar stated that "uyghur blood was pouring like a murmuring stream" during this war). The Mongolic speaking Yugurs are probably the descendants of one of the Mongolic speaking groups invading northern China during the Mongol conquests in the thirteenth century. The Yugurs were eventually incorporated in the Chinese Qing empire in 1696, during the reign of the second Manchu emperor Kangxi (1662-1723). The nationality's current, official name, Yugur, derived from the Yugur's autonym: the Turkic speaking Yugur designate themselves as Yogïr or Sarïg Yogïr ((Yellow) Yugur), and the Mongolic speaking Yugur likewise use either Yogor or Šera Yogor ((Yellow) Yugur). Chinese historical documents have recorded these ethnonyms as Sālǐ Wèiwù'ěr or Xīlǎgǔ'ěr. During the Qing dynasty, the Yugur were also called Huángfān ('Yellow Barbarian'). In order to distinguish both groups and their languages, Chinese linguists coined the terms Xībù Yùgù (Western Yugur) and Dōngbù Yùgù (Eastern Yugur), based on their geographical distribution. The Turkic speaking Yugur mainly live in the western part of the County in Mínghuā District, in the Townships of Liánhuā and Mínghǎi, and in Dàhé District, in the centre of the County. The Mongolic speaking Yugur mainly live in the County's eastern part, in Huángchéng District, and in Dàhé and Kānglè Districts, in the centre of the County. The traditional religion of the Yugur is Tibetan Buddhism, which used to be practiced alongside shamanism. The Yugur people are predominantly employed in animal husbandry. Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugur Site all about Yugurs: http://home.arcor.de/marcmarti/yugur/ Music from Gewaldro's channel. Thank you Gewaldro. Check out his channel to see videos about Yugurs. http://www.youtube.com/user/Gewaldro Tags: Yugur Eastern Western Yellow Uyghur Turkish Turkic Mongolian Mongol Altaic music dance traditional

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Iraqi Turkmen Beauty Beauty of the Iraqi Turkmen people and culture. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic The Iraqi Turkmen (also spelled Turkomen, Turcoman, and Turkman) (Turkish:Irak Türkmenleri) are a distinct Turkic ethnic group living in Iraq, notably in the cities of Arbil, Tal Afar, Kirkuk, and Mosul. Like the Assyrians, they claim to be the third largest ethnic group in the country (following the Arabs and the Kurds). However, estimates of their numbers vary dramatically, from 222,000 by western experts to 2,000,000 by Turkish sources. The Turkmen of Iraq are not to be confused with the Turkmen of Central Asia who reside primarily in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Iraqi Turkmen form a distinct group within the Oghuz Turk classification, which includes Ottoman Turks, modern Turks and Azeris. The Iraqi Turkmen speak a dialect of Turkish that is heavily influenced by Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.[citation needed] Ethnologue and Linguasphere classify their spoken language as a form of South Azerbaijani, thus making them linguistically closer of the Azeris of Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. For their written language, they use the standard Turkish language and Latin-based Turkish alphabet. Some sources state that they are evenly split between Sunni and Shia Islam by faith. According to Talip Büyük, Shiites are 65% of the population and Sunnis make up the rest. Juan Cole says that they practice a ghulat form of Shiism (cf. Turkey's Alevis). The origin of the Iraqi Turkmen dates back to the Al-Ma'mun and Al-Mu'tasim rules of Abbasid in 9th century. Most of the Turkmen living in the region settled in northern Iraq during the early Seljuk Empire period, when Turks migrated from Central Asia (Turkestan) to Anatolia, Iran and Iraq. A recent addition to this population was made by the Ottoman Empire who brought Turks from Anatolia to the region to secure and transport mail from Baghdad to Istanbul and vice versa in the 18th century. Others were sent to the region by the Ottomans to repel tribal raids. These groups settled at the entrances of the valleys that gave them access to Kurdish-dominated areas. This historic role of pacification has led to the development of strained relations between the Turkmen and the Kurds. With the rise of Saddam Hussein and Ba'ath domination over Iraq, a policy of Arabization was imposed on the Turkmen and the rest of Iraq's non-Arab minorities. It was declared in the constitution that schools were prohibited from using the Turkish language and banned Turkish-language media in Iraq. In the 1980s, Saddam prohibited the public use of the Turkish language completely. Distribution of Religious and Ethnic Groups in IraqThe Turkmen of Iraq live mainly in the north and middle of the country; according to them, their number is severely underestimated, and approximates 2.5 million. The Turkmen of Iraq constitute generations of different Turkish clans who entered the area that is now modern day Iraq over thousands of years, for example, Oghus, Kipchak, Azerbaijanian and Mongols. The term Turkmen for Iraqi Turks seems to have been created during the course of the discussion on the Mosul issue in the third decade of the last century, in order to isolate the Iraqi Turks from Turkey. This was used as a factor against Turkey during negotiations, in order to join this oil rich Ottoman province to the newly founded Iraq by Britain. Quoted from Wikipedia Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Turkmen Song is called "Sonamız gölde kaldı" and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-2_14.html Tags: Iraqi Turkmen Turkomen Turcoman Turkman Irak Türkmenleri Kuzey Turkish Turkic Altaic folk music Iraq

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Qashqai Beauty Beauty of the the Qashqai culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Qashqai also spelled Ghashghai, Qashqay and Qashqa'i) are a people in Iran speaking a Turkic language. Qashqais mainly live in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan, but especially around the city of Shiraz in Fars. The Qashqai were originally nomadic pastoralists and some remain so today. The traditional nomadic Qashqai travelled with their flocks each year from the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 mi south to the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf, to the southwest of Shiraz. The majority, however, have now settled, or are partially settled. The trend towards settlement has been increasing markedly since the 1960s. The Qashqai are made up of a number of tribes and sub-tribes including the Amalaeh, Darreh-Shuri, Kashkuli, Shesh(6) Baluki, Farsimadan, Qaracheh, Rahimi and Safi -Khani. The Qashqai are renowned for their magnificent pile carpets and other woven wool products. They are sometimes referred to as "Shiraz" because Shiraz was the major marketplace for them in the past. The wool produced in the mountains and valleys near Shiraz is exceptionally soft and beautiful and takes a deeper color than wool from other parts of Iran. "No wool in all Persia takes such a rich and deep colour as the Shiraz wool. The deep blue and the dark ruby red are equally extraordinary, and that is due to the brilliancy of the wool, which is firmer and, so to say, more transparent than silk, and makes one think of translucent enamel." Qashqai carpets have been said to be "probably the most famous of all Persian tribal weavings." Qashqai saddlebags, adorned with colorful geometric designs, "which are superior to any others made." Quoted from Wikipedia Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qashqai http://www.qashqai.net/ http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Qashqais/Qashqais.html This map will show you where Qashqai live in Iran. The brown stands for the Qashqai, North Azerbaijani (blue), South Azerbaijani (red), Salchuq (green), Afshari (purple) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Azerbaijani_languages.PNG Note: This song is not Qashqai but a song of the Iranian Azeri people. The name is Atlar, which means horses. Free mp3 here: http://www.arazelses.com/mp3/atlar.mp3 I am sorry I could not find a Qashqai song. However, here is a video with a real Qashqai song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i-PE-jRljw Tags: Qashqai Ghashghai Qashqay Qashqa'i folk music Turks Turkish Turkic Altaic

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Azeri Beauty Beauty of the the Azeri culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic The Azerbaijanis are an ethnic group mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Commonly referred to as Azeris (Azeri: آذریلر Azәrilәr) or Āzarīs (Persian: آذری ), they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to the Iranian plateau. The Azeris are typically Muslim and have a mixed cultural heritage of Turkic, Iranian, and Caucasian elements. Despite living on both sides of an international border, the Azeris form a single ethnic group. However, northerners and southerners differ due to nearly two centuries of separate social evolution in Russian/Soviet-influenced Azerbaijan and Iranian Azarbaijan. The Azerbaijani language unifies Azeris and is mutually intelligible with Turkmen and Turkish (including the dialects spoken by the Iraqi Turkmen and by the Qashqai). All of these languages are traced to the Turkic Oghuz , who moved into the Caucasus from Central Asia in the 11th century. Following the Russian-Persian Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, Persian territories in the Caucasus were ceded to the Russian Empire. This included parts of the current Republic of Azerbaijan. The treaties of Gulistan in 1813 and Turkmenchay in 1828 finalized the border between Russia and Persia (today known as Iran). As a result of this separate existence, the Azeris are mainly secular in the Republic of Azerbaijan and religious Muslims in Iranian Azerbaijan. Since Azerbaijan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there has been renewed interest in religion and cross-border ethnic ties. Quoted from Wikipedia Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan Song is called Getme and a free mp3 can be found here. http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-1_580.html Tags: Azeri Azerbaijanis Azerbaijan Āzarīs dance music culture Turks Turkic Altaic

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Japanese Wonders Japanese culture is a one of a kind, incredibly beautiful, and full of many wonders. This newest installment in the "Altaic Wonders" slideshow collection, which shows the wonders of Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu Tungus, Korean, and Japanese.) culture. The video has four parts. Traditional Kimono Geisha and Maiko Taiko Drummers End credits with Japanese traditional Almost all photos are from flickr and under the "creative commons license" but pictures 4:28 to 5:11 and 7:56 to 8:14 belong to Marie Eve. They are copyrighted and are used with permission. © Marie Eve K.A. www.flickr.com/photos/7509810@N05/ Videos used with permission. Videos from Suetsumuhana. http://www.youtube.com/user/Suetsumuhana Music: You have been similar to me Winter Dance Tanko Bushi If you liked this video, check out my other "Altaic Wonder" videos. Yakut Sakha Wonder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RwyShzI_8 Mongolian Wonder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1i3VIbHW3Q Tags: Japan Japanese Nippon dance pictures traditional music Kimono Geisha Maiko Taiko drummers Altaic Altai

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Uzbek Beauty Beauty of the Uzbek culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic The Uzbeks (Self designation sg. O'zbek, pl. O'zbeklar) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Smaller diaspora populations of Uzbeks from Central Asia are also found in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, North America, and Western Europe. The origin of the name Uzbek remains disputed. One view holds that it is eponymously named after Uzbeg Khan, although the nomadic Uzbeks were never entirely subject to him[citation needed]. An etymological argument states that the name means independent or the lord itself, from O'z (self) and Bek (a noble title of leadership). Contemporary indigenous sources usually used the term Uzbek to refer to uncultured individuals, especially nomads and rural peasants. Although Altaic infiltration into Central Asia had started early, as late as the 13th century AD when Turkic-speaking and Mongol armies finally conquered the entire region, the majority of Central Asia's peoples were Iranic peoples such as Sogdians, Bactrians and, more ancient, the Saka--Massagetae tribes. It is generally believed that these ancient Indo-European-speaking peoples were linguistically assimilated by smaller but dominant Turkic-speaking groups while the sedentary population finally adopted the Persian language, the traditional lingua franca of the eastern Islamic lands. The language-shift from Middle Iranian to Turkic and New Persian was predominantly the result of an elite dominance process.This process was dramatically boosted during the Mongol conquest when millions were either killed or pushed further south to the Pamir region. The modern Uzbek language is largely derived from the Chagatai language, an Eastern Turkic language which gained prominence in the Mongol Timurid Empire. The position of Chagatai (and later Uzbek) was further strengthened after the fall of the highly Persianized Timurids and the rise of the Shaybanid Uzbek Khaqanate that finally shaped the Turkic language and identity of modern Uzbeks, while the unique grammatical[17] and phonetical features of the Uzbek language as well as the modern Uzbek culture reflect the more ancient Iranic roots of the Uzbek people. Quoted from Wikipedia Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbeks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan Tags: Uzbek O'zbek Ozbek Ozbeklar Uzbekistan Turks Turkic Altaic Central Asia

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Ahiska Beauty Ahiska or Meskhetian Turks people Branch of the Altaic family Turkic Thank you BoiseNoise for letting me use your pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/boisenoise/sets/ Meskhetian Turks or Meskhetians are the former Muslim inhabitants of Meskheti (Georgia), along the border with Turkey. They were deported to Central Asia during November 15-25 1944 by Joseph Stalin and settled within Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Of the 120,000 forcibly deported in cattle-trucks a total of 10,000 perished. Today they are dispersed over a number of other countries of the former Soviet Union. A majority (more than 80%) of Meskhetian Turks are ethnic Turks (Yerli (Turkish-speaking agriculturalists) and Terekeme (Azerbaijani-speaking pastoralists)) with Kurds and Hamshenis. A minority(about 20%) are descendants of indigenous Georgians who became Muslim in the 17th-18th centuries. The estimated population of Meskhetian Turks is around 300,000. They are known as Ahıska Türkleri (Akhaltsikhe Turks) in Turkey. In May 1989 a pogrom of Meskhetian Turks occurred in the crowded and poor Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan as a result of growing ethnic tensions during the era of Glasnost. This triggered an evacuation of Meskhetian Turks from Uzbekistan. In the 1990s, Georgia began to receive Meskhetian settlers, provided that they declared themselves to be of ethnic Georgian origin. One of the human rights campaigners on their behalf was Guram Mamulia. Their resettlement created tension among the Armenian population of Samtskhe-Javakheti province. Azerbaijan accepted a number of Meskhetians, but faced problems with refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, and the government did not accept larger numbers. Turkey, seen as their homeland by many Meskhetian Turks themselves, started a program of resettling Meskhetian immigrants in the underprivileged, Kurdish majority eastern regions of the country. This program was for fewer than 200 individuals, and fell short of expectations. The government of the Soviet Union encouraged Meskhetians to settle in selected oblasts of the Russian SSR, and most received Russian Federation citizenship in 1992. The legal status of those who moved to Krasnodar Krai, however, remained undetermined, and many were Stateless. Their presence caused tensions with the local Cossack population.To help resolve the situation, the International Organization for Migration implemented a program to resettle Meskhetian Turks from the Krasnodar Krai to the United States between 2004 and 2007. In cooperation with the two governments (Russia and the US), approximately 11,500 individuals departed. Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meskhetian_Turks Tags: Meskhetian Meskhetians Ahiska Meskheti Turks Turkish Turkic Altaic

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Tatars of Romania Beauty Tatars of Romania people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic All pictures are from this website about the Tatar dance group "Yildizlar". http://yildizlar.3x.ro/album.php?lg=en Music is a Kazan Tatar song "Ber gina minutka". Learn more: http://yildizlar.3x.ro/ Tags: Tatar Yildizlar Kirim Crimean Romanian Romania Tatarlar Turks Turkic Altaic

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Crimean Tatar Beauty Crimean Tatar people Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Most pictures from here: http://www.tatar.ro/fotografii.php The song's name is Onekide Ordek by Yalcin Faik. A free mp3 of the song can be fround here: http://www.tatar.ro/multimedia.php The Crimean Tatars and non-Russian minorities living in Crimea are descendants of a mix of Turkic (Bulgars, Khazars, Petchenegs and Cumans) and non-Turkic (Alans, East Slavs, Romanians, Byzantine Greeks, Crimean Goths, Circassians), as well as of other various people (e.g. Venetians and Genoese), who lived, settled (colonised) or were even brought as slaves by the Tatars themselves, in the Crimean penisula and the adjacent areas north of the Black Sea (the Pontic-Caspian steppe). The non-Turkic populations were assimilated into the Turkic ones. The Crimean Tatars are subdivided into three sub-ethnic groups: the Tats (Tat Tatars) (not to be confused with the Tat people) who used to inhabit the mountainous Crimea before 1944 (about 55%), the Yalıboyu Tatars who lived on the southern coast of the peninsula (about 30%), the Noğay Tatars (not to be confused with the Nogai people) - former inhabitants of the Crimean steppe (about 15%). The Tats and Yalıboyus have a Caucasian physical appearance, while the Noğays retain Mongoloid characteristics. In modern times, in addition to living in Crimea, Ukraine, there is a large diaspora of Crimean Tatars in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Western Europe and North America, as well as small communities in Finland, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and Poland. (See Lipka Tatars and Crimean Tatar diaspora) Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more about Crimean Tatars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars Tags: Crimean Qırım Crimeans Tatar Turkic Altaic

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Kazan Tatar Beauty Kazan Tatar people Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartar (more about the name), are a Turkic ethnic group or a couple of ethnic groups. Most current day Tatars live in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. They collectively numbered more than 10 million in the late 20th century. The original Ta-ta inhabited the north-eastern Gobi in the 5th century and, after subjugation in the 9th century by the Khitans, migrated southward. In the 12th century, they were subjugated by the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan. Under the leadership of his grandson Batu Khan, they moved westwards, driving with them many stems of the Turkic Ural-Altayans towards the plains of Russia. In Europe, they were assimilated by the local Turkic populations or their name spread to the conquered peoples: Kipchaks, Volga Bulgars, Alans, Kimaks and others; and elsewhere with Finno-Ugric speaking peoples, as well as with remnants of the ancient Greek colonies in the Crimea and Caucasians in the Caucasus. Tatars of Siberia are survivors of the Turkic population of the Ural-Altaic region, mixed to some extent with the speakers of Uralic languages, as well as with Mongols. Later, each group adopted Turkic languages and many adopted Islam. At the beginning of 20th century, most of those groups, except the Volga Tatars and Crimean Tatars adopted their own ethnic names and now are not referred to as Tatars, being Tatars or Tartars only in historical context. Now the name Tatars is generally applied to two ethnic groups: Volga Tatars (or simply Tatars) and Crimean Tatars. However, some indigenous peoples of Siberia are also traditionally named Tatars, such as Chulym Tatars. The present Tatar inhabitants of Eurasia form three large groups: those of Crimea, Bulgaria, European Russia and Western Siberia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, Romania and Turkey. those of the Caucasus (in historical context), and those of Eastern Siberia (in historical context). Due to the vast movements and intermingling of peoples along with the very loose utilization of the name Tatar, current day Tatars comprise a spectrum of physical appearance. As to the original Tatars from Mongolia, they most likely shared characteristics with the Turkic invaders from Central Asia. Learn more about Kazan Tatars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan Most pictures from this website: http://tatar-bashkort.narod.ru/kizlar/kizlar1.htm Song Ayrılmagız, a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-1_580.html Tags: Tatar Kazan Tatarlar Татарлар Tatarstan Volga Bulgars Turks Turkic Altaic

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Korean Beauty Beauty of the Korean culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Korean Koreans are believed to be descendents of Altaic or proto-Altaic-speaking tribes, linking them with Mongolians, Tungusics, Turkics, and other Central Asians. Archaeological evidence suggest proto-Koreans were Altaic-language-speaking migrants from south-central Siberia, who populated ancient Korea in successive waves from the neolithic age to the Bronze Age. Recent advances in the study of polymorphisms in the human Y-chromosome have produced evidence to suggest that the Korean people have a very long history as a distinct, mostly endogamous ethnic group, as male Koreans display a high frequency of Y-chromosomes belonging to Haplogroup O2b that are more or less specific to Korean populations. Most Koreans and part-Koreans still display phenotypes suggesting Altaic origins.These features include higher cheekbones, and the Mongolian spot, a genetic predisposition for a bluish birthmark on the lower body which remains until early childhood; however, the Mongolian spot is also extremely common among non-Altaic people of Chinese, African, Native American, or East Indian ancestry. Quoted from Wikipedia To learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea Thank you Kjkj927 for the song. See Kjkj927's channel for videos on Korean culture. http://www.youtube.com/user/kjkj927 Tags: Korea Korean north south hanbok han culture beauty folk music Altaic

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Altai Beauty Beauty of the Altai (Altay) culture and people. Branch of the Altaic people: Turkic The Altay or Altai are a Turkic people living in the Siberian Altai Republic and Altai Krai and surrounding areas of Tuva and Mongolia. For alternative ethnonyms see also Teleut, Tele, Telengit, Mountain Kalmuck, White Kalmuck, Black Tatar, Oirat. The Altay people have had skills in metalworking dating back to the 2nd millennium BC. The Altay came into contact with Russians in the 18th century. In the tsarist period, the Altay were known as oirot or oyrot (this name would later be carried on for the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast). Many of the Altay became addicted to the Russians' vodka, which they called "fire water". The Altay were originally nomadic, with a lifestyle based on hunting / trapping and pastoralism (mainly cattle, sheep, goats), but many of them settled as a result of Russian influence. In regard to religion, some of the Altay remain Shamanists, while others (in a trend beginning in the mid-19th century) have converted to the Orthodox. (The Altai mission took shape under Saint Makarii Glukharev, Apostle to the Altai.) In 1904, a religious movement called Ak Jang or Burkhanism arose, perhaps in response to Russian colonization. With the rise of the 1917 revolution, the Altay attempted to make their region a separate Burkhanist republic called Oryot, but their support for the Mensheviks during the Civil War led to the venture's collapse after the Bolshevik victory and the rise of Stalin. In the 1940s, the Altay were accused of being pro-Japanese, and the word "oyrot" was declared counterrevolutionary. By 1950, Soviet industrialization had cost the Altay 80% of their population. Ethnic Altaians currently make up about 31% of the Altai Republic's population. Quoted from Wikipedia Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altay_people Neat links: Beautiful pictures of Altai people not seen in the video. http://www.teletsky.net/p05_el_oyin_en.html A Altai Kai video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA3MCWUq7WQ Music used in the video. My Altai by Altai Kai Warriors Words Altai Kai Tags: Altay Altai Altaian Krai Kai Teleut Tele Telengit White Kalmuck Oirat folk culture Turkic

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