Turanians
Turanian is a controversial term[1] that has been used in reference to diverse groups of people. It has had currency in Turanism, Pan-Turkism, and historic Turkish nationalism.
Many of the uses of the word are obsolete. It may refer to:
- The Turanid race
- An Aniranian ethnic group mentioned in the Avesta; see Turan
- Any historical people of Transoxiana or present-day Turkistan
- Any historical Ural–Altaic people, in particular:
- The Turkic peoples during Turkic expansion
- The Huns described by the Europeans and Chinese
- The Mongols, who are distantly related to the Turks
- Some sources have mentioned the Japanese people
- The Sami or Lapps of northern Scandinavia
- Finno-Ugric peoples like the Finns, Estonians, and Hungarians
- The Dravidian people of southern India and Pakistan were theorized to have Turanian ancestors
- Speakers of Caucasian languages
- Non-Semitic and non-Indo-European peoples of the Late Bronze Age were theorized to have Turanian ancestors; see Hurro-Urartian and Etruscans
- The Basques of western Europe (northern Spain and southwest France) were theorized to have Turanian ancestors
- The term formerly used for the Caucasian Avars
Notes
- ↑ Tomoko Masuzawa The Invention of World Religions. Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2005, p. 228
See also
- Turanid race
- Altaic peoples
- Hungarian Turanism
- Turan
- Turanism
- Turkic peoples
- Uralic peoples