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2 unusual facts about Chagatai people


Chagatai people

The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in south-east Uzbekistan and in southern Tajikistan.

Turkic migration

# land of sedentary Turkic-speaking townspeople that have been subjects of the Central Asian Chagatayids, i.e. Sarts, Central Asian Mughals, Central Asian Timurids, Uyghurs of Chinese Turkestan and the later invading Tatars that came to be known as Uzbeks; This area roughly coincides with "Khorasan" in the widest sense, plus Tarim Basin which was known as Chinese Turkestan.



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