Turco-Mongol

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Tamerlane

Babur founder of the Mughal Empire in India (photo from Turkey)

Turco-Mongols or Turko-Mongols are mainly the descendants of those Turks who were ruled over by the Mongols. Speaking mostly in Turkic they derived their ethnic and cultural origins from both groups. Turko-Mongol is used to describe the people of the Mongol Khanates which had large Turkic representation, the Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate and the Golden Horde and sometimes also to describe successor Khanates and principalities such as the Khanate of Kazan, the Nogai Khanate and the Empire of Timur.

It can also refer to:

• Someone of a combination between Turkic people and the Mongols
• Turkic and Mongol tribes in considered in combination,^{[dubious – discuss]} see Altaic peoples
• Turkic languages and Mongolic languages considered member of the same language family, see Altaic languages
• the 13th century Mongol invasions^[1]
• the Turco-Mongol rule in 14th to 16th century Asia:^{[dubious – discuss]}
  • Mongol Empire
  • Golden Horde
  • Tatar yoke
  • Timurid dynasty
  • Mughal Empire

People that were considered "Turco-Mongol"

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• Tamerlane
• Babur

References

See also

• Mongols
• Turkic peoples
• Turko-Iranian
• Altaic people
• Timur

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