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IOTL,Central Asia has been a vibrant mix of different cultures and peoples,today predominantly Turkic with Iranian touches and pockets. In this timeline,we are looking for settlements of Uralic or more famously known as Finno-Ugric people in the river basins and Green pockets of Central Asia. Finno-Ugric people are an expansive people and though in the club of the few biggest and language families and ethnic groups in the World and they were overshadowed by Indo-European and Turkic peoples IOTL. They are spread from Volga Basin(little off the Central Asia) and continiously spread till Finland. So you can have some confederation of them to settle in Central Asia in the Scythian,Sogdian,Bactrian and Tocharian lands but these are mostly sedentary unlike the Turkic,Mongol and Scythian peoples in the Central Asia. So make interesting timelines about how they make a confederation like the Magyars,settle down,interact with the then native Scythians,Tocharians and Sogdians,how they behave with the latter day immigrant/invading Turks and Mongols,how they come into the modern era,how they fare in the 21st century,etc. Get set with your colors and make the Central Asia a colorful and vibrant melting pot. The POD is before the Turkic and Mongol expansions. You can touch if they dominate larget parts of Russia but that is already covered by an another thread called Finnic Russia so you can focus on Central Asia,Caucasus,Northern fringes of South Asia bordering Central Asia and Eastern Europe in this thread.
PS: This thread has been posted after thoroughly going through multiple other threads related to the topic. Don't make this look like an another 'Racist' thread which it isn't.
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