Originally posted by kajl
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Turks had 2 Empires called Gokturks and Ottomans that ruled both over nearly whole world for centuries...
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Maybe a good chunk of the known world, and even that is a debateable statement
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CALLING TURKS AS THE BARBARIAN HORDES IS NOTHING BUT IGNORANCE OF SOME ILL-MINDED PEOPLE.DON'T BE SO JEALOUS OF US
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I wonder what some Balkan people called the Barbarian hordes over those centuries. There is a lot of history in the Balkans dealing with the barbarian hordes. I doubt their resentment is based on jealousy. Not to say the Turks were the only barbarian hordes to infest the land. There have been many skirmishes of various racial barbarian hordes in that area.
Don't take the comment of barbarian horde as such a slant. The Scots celebrate their heritage, the French almost deny it, and the Norwegians are completely apathetic to their history of barbarian hordes; but all fess up to the fact.
They were people hundreds of years ago, not your mom.