#middle asia

[taytayb1993]

These women are so beautiful. I love studying the Turkic history and culture, they're one of my favorites to study out of all the ethnic groups and histories that I looked up.

Turkic people

The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethno-linguistic groups of Central, Eastern, Northern and Western Asia as well as parts of Europe and North Africa.  The Turkic peoples speak related languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits, common ancestry and historical backgrounds.   

In time, different Turkic groups came in contact with other ethnicities, absorbing them, leaving some Turkic groups more diverse than the others. Many vastly differing ethnic groups have throughout history become part of the Turkic peoples through language shift, acculturation, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion. Despite this, many do share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.

The most notable modern Turkic-speaking ethnic groups include Turkish people, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz and Uyghur people.

6. Kazakhstan 8. Tuva

[herpsandbirds]

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Iran

photograph by Seyed Babak Musav

[haykhighland]

[left: Palestinian woman holding key to home now under Isr*eli occupation]

[right: Keys hang from a tapestry at a school in Aralez, Armenia, representing the keys to homes left behind by the survivors of the Armenian Genocide]

we will return.

[heavenskiriot]

Jerash, Jordan

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[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 61: Middle Ages and Much Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

[illustratus]

Florine of Burgundy (First Crusade) by Gustave Doré

[anyahita]

Middle Eastern kids deserve to wake up to the sounds of birds chirping, not bombs and airstrikes

Middle Eastern kids should be carrying books and flowers, not the dead bodies of their loved ones

Middle Eastern kids deserve to run the streets in joy and laughter, not run away from bombs

[dream-world-universe]

The Pearl Island, Doha, Qatar: The Pearl Island in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of nearly four square kilometers. It is the first land in Qatar to be available for freehold ownership by foreign nationals. As of 2018, there were 27,000 residents. Wikipedia

[herpsandbirds]

Iraqi bird

Here is the national bird of Iraq.

Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar), family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, found in a broad strip across the Middle East and the Southern Himalayas through Asia

This birds has been released and has naturalized in other parts of the world.

photograph by solitude48

[jaffababe]

Gaza City, Gaza Strip. 20th Apr, 2016. Palestinians in Gaza city celebrate World Heritage Day by wearing traditional Palestinian dress and showing hand-made traditional products.

[holidaysincambodia]

Yazidi traditional clothing

[bobemajses]

Sugar bowl (kase nabat). Reconstructed according to the Afghan Jewish tradition, Jerusalem, 1997

During the betrothal ceremony's festive meal - at which a couple's intention to wed is proclaimed publicly - a special bowl with a large cone of hardened sugar, surrounded by smaller ones, is presented to the groom by the mother of the bride as a sign of her consent to the engagement. This custom symbolically blesses the couple with a life of fertility, purity, and sweetness. Decorated sugar cones are a central element in Jewish and Muslim wedding ceremonies throughout Central and Western Asia.

[haykhighland]

[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]

via ig: belalkh

[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]

via ig: stufankjian

[heavenskiriot]

The Treasury الخزنة | Petra, Jordan

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[drowster]

Wadi Qelt, Palestine, 2017

[illustratus]

The Battle of Nicaea in 1097 (First Crusade) by Gustave Doré