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Today, Turkic languages are spoken by 170 million people natively among a very fragmented area stretching from Turkey to eastern Siberia, with the largest language being Turkish itself.
Could there have been a very large Turkic empire, not the Ottoman Empire or Seljuk Empire, surviving to the modern day with contiguous borders that manages to have one predominant Turkic language, other languages mostly assimilated?
The territory of this country, which should be at least 170 million people, should include some territory in the Middle East, some territory in Central Asia, and any additional amount of territory in Europe or Asia.
Could there have been a very large Turkic empire, not the Ottoman Empire or Seljuk Empire, surviving to the modern day with contiguous borders that manages to have one predominant Turkic language, other languages mostly assimilated?
The territory of this country, which should be at least 170 million people, should include some territory in the Middle East, some territory in Central Asia, and any additional amount of territory in Europe or Asia.