Before the Seljuks Turkey was inhabited by some people. Those were Christians. Where are they, I mean which was their fate? I mean, it isn't a small region. It is like a continent! It should have many inhabitants. I am interested. Your explanation seems reasonable to me. I'll search more myself. In breaf, I'm Italian and just found out about my mother's roots.
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First of all, most modern Turks come from local peoples genetically. The Turkic tribes were a cultural and political influence. There were Romans before and during Selçuks. And Romans were pagan first, but after their emperors became Christian, they forced Anatolian pagans to change to Christianity... and by force, too. And there were Persians. Hittites. Urartus. And Alexander's empire. Small Ancient Greek city states. They all had similar pagan beliefs that affected each other. Are you really asking to know? Or are you trying to make a point.
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Really complex society. Different people lived in different parts of Turkey.Like Prophet Abraham (father of Jews and Arabs)lived in Sanlıurfa ,a city in southeast of Turkey. OK here is a link,you may find interesting http://www.ancientanatolia.com here is a shorter story http://www.turkishnews.com/DiscoverTurkey/anatolia/history.html
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Here is a good link to the history of the region,on the right you can see a nice list in order of the people and empires who lived there.
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if i trace my father's family tree i can take it back to central Anatolia my father's side came from Karaman to Balkans in ottoman times karaman dynasty it was a multiracial and multicultural society a clan coming from Caucasia but Former name comes from Greek they were terminated by the Ottomans my mother's side is a bit complicated i prefer to say that she came from Rumelia
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as totally blunt said the turkic tribes were a cultural and linguistic influence and technically speaking the locals never left ...they make up the main bulk of todays population.
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Dozens of groups: Hittites (of pre-Slavic, but Indo-European, Russian origin), Armenians (now greatly reduced by genocide and outmigration), Laz (related to modern-day Georgians, and still very visible as a distinct culture), Celts (now believed by many scholars to have oroginated in Anatolia), Greeks (now confined mostly to Greece), many Jews, Arabs, and Indo-Iranian groups (the Kurds, mostly). The Turks are the most mixed race in Europe, and have an amazing culture, as much a 'melting pot' as America or Brazil. Nearly every person in Turkey is a combination of these peoples, including my daughter, born in Istanbul to an Alevi Turkish mother and an Irish father (me!). Despite their troubled history, the Turks are a very absorptive and tolerant people, and I admire them.
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