Turkic peoples

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The genetic legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia.	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 11, 2026
	Add new Web site: UEN Digital Press with Pressbooks - Turkic Migrations.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 20, 2025
	Updated spelling of “Uyghur” and added note on the use of “Altaic.”	Teagan Wolter	Jun 26, 2025
	Add new Web site: DergiPark - The Turkic Civilization in the context of History and Globalization (PDF).	Grace Young	May 23, 2025
	Add new Web site: Joshua Project - Turk.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Turkic-speaking groups.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 09, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The genetic legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 30, 2023
	Clarified that Altaic is a language group.	Adam Zeidan	Aug 11, 2020
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Aug 28, 2019
	Add new Web site: The History Files - The Rise of the Turkic Peoples.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 27, 2018
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Turkic Peoples: A Historical Sketch (PDF).	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 30, 2018
	Article revised.	Kathleen Kuiper	Dec 23, 2015
	Clarified that most Turkic peoples are Muslim.	Kathleen Kuiper Tural Ziyatkhanly	Nov 23, 2015
	Added a reference to Togarmah, the supposed progenitor of the Turkic peoples.	Kathleen Kuiper Radost Pesheva	Nov 20, 2012
	Article updated, transliteration changed to Pinyin, and cross-references added.	Kathleen Kuiper	Nov 20, 2012
	Added new Web site: End of Europe's Middle Ages - Ottoman Turks.	Gaurav Shukla	Feb 27, 2007
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Nov 16, 2001
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998