To: blam
Anatolia has been ruled by Hittites, Lydians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs before the Turks got control.
I believe the traditional thinking was that Turks (Seljuk Turks) were late comers, arriving out of Central Asia around about 900 AD. Is this research really trying to push that date back 3000 years???
5 posted on
08/27/2004 9:27:44 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Is this research really trying to push that date back 3000 years???" That's the way I read it.
7 posted on
08/27/2004 9:29:13 AM PDT by
blam
To: ClearCase_guy
Is this research really trying to push that date back 3000 years??? Politically-motivated revisionism on a par with the unwillingness of the Chinese to admit they pushed non-Han populations out of Turkestan in historical times.
8 posted on
08/27/2004 9:30:27 AM PDT by
VadeRetro
To: ClearCase_guy; Hermann the Cherusker
Modern Turkish attempts to claim ancestry to a land they took by force as a claim to their legitimacy.
9 posted on
08/27/2004 9:31:00 AM PDT by
Destro
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To: ClearCase_guy
It is possible that some Turks were in Anatolia 2000 BC. Everybody else was.
10 posted on
08/27/2004 9:33:36 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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