An ancient family from this ethnic group known as the Ashina led a successful revolt against the Rouran. The oldest record of their language is preserved in the Orkhon inscriptions. A series of massacres by members of this ethnic group drove the Alevi community underground. The caliph al-Musta'sim introduced warriors of this (*) ethnicity into the Abbasid army. Because it encompassed former Roman territory, an offshoot of one of their empires was called the Sultanate of Rum. The longest-lasting empire of this ethnicity was founded by Osman and used abducted Christian b
An ancient family from this ethnic group known as the Ashina led a successful revolt against the Rouran. The oldest record of their language is preserved in the Orkhon inscriptions. A series of massacres by members of this ethnic group drove the Alevi community underground. The caliph al-Musta'sim introduced warriors of this (*) ethnicity into the Abbasid army. Because it encompassed former Roman territory, an offshoot of one of their empires was called the Sultanate of Rum. The longest-lasting empire of this ethnicity was founded by Osman and used abducted Christian boys known as janissaries to capture Constantinople in 1453. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of the Seljuk and Ottoman sultans.
An ancient family from this ethnic group known as the Ashina led a successful revolt against the Rouran.