Turanian Tribes

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Turanians or Turanian tribes is a term that has been used in references to diverse groups of people. Some of the references have become obsolete in modern scholarship. The term Turanian tribes may refer to or may have referred to at one time:

• an Iranian ethnic group mentioned in the Avesta, see Turan.
• any historical people of Transoxiana
• any historical Ural-Altaic people, in particular
  • the Turkic peoples during Turkic expansion
  • the Huns
  • the Mongols
• non-Semitic and non-Indo-European peoples of the Late Bronze Age, see Hurro-Urartian
• the Dravidian people
• speakers of Caucasian Languages
• the term has some currency in Turkish nationalism, see Turanism, Turanian Society

[edit] See also

• Iranian peoples
• Uralic peoples
• Altaic peoples