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The nomadic people are thought to have come from what is now Kazakhstan, and swept across
the eastern steppes after about 350 A.D. Some scholars think they were a Turkic tribe
descended from the Xiongnu, a group of pastoral nomads who unified much of Asia during the
late third and early second centuries B.C.
The origins of the Huns are still debated today, in the 18th century the French scholar de Guignes
proposed that the Huns were related to the Xiongnu, a nomadic people who emigrated out of
northern China in the 1st century CE. However, the evidence for this theory is not definitive, and so it
is not universally accepted.
Due to poor archaeological records, and an absence of a written language, it is very difficult to
establish where the Huns came from. Nowadays people tend to lean more towards the idea that they
came from the steppes of Central Asia, though the precise location is unknown.
They first appear in written records by Tacitus, who says that they live near the Caspian Sea in
91CE. But they don't make their way into Europe until the 4th century.
They the Tiele, or as they called themselves the Türük believed to be descendants of the
Dingling, a tribe conquered by the Xiongnu that became part of them. They were nomadic,
steppe people whom conquered other nomadic steppe people and formed the Köktürk
Khağanate aka the Turkic Khanate. They were an Asian people. Kazakh, also spelled Kazak,
an Asiatic Turkic-speaking people inhabiting mainly Kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of the
Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China. ... The Kazakhs are the second most
numerous Turkic-speaking people in Central Asia after the Uzbeks. he origins of the Turkic
peoples has been a topic of much discussion. [33] Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological
evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities
in Northeast China who moved westwards into Mongolia in the late 3rd millennium BC, where they
adopted a pastoral lifestyle.[34][35][36][37][38] By the early 1st millennium BC, these peoples had
become equestrian nomads.[34] In subsequent centuries, the steppe populations of Central
Asia appear to have been progressively Turkified by a heterogenous East Asian dominant
minority moving out of Mongolia.[39][40] Many vastly differing ethnic groups have throughout history
become part of the Turkic peoples through language
shift, acculturation, conquest, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion.[3] Nevertheless, certain
Turkic peoples share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry
from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.[3]