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Nomen gentile ''Türk'' primo chronicis [[Sinae|Sinensibus]] [[Saeculum 6|saeculi sexti]] forma ''T'u-küe'' invenitur tamquam nomen familiae ad confoederationem nomadum pertinentis, cuius origo linguaque incertae sunt.<ref>Carter Vaughn Findley, "The Turks in World History", Oxoniae 2005, p. 39</ref> Potentia confoederationis crescente appellatio "Türk" ad multos alios nomades sive gentes translata est, donec postremo omnes [[Turcice]] loquentes valebat.<ref name=EI">Ambros/Andrews/Balim/Golden/Gökalp/Karamustafa, "Turks", in [[http://www.encislam.brill.nl/public/ Encyclopaedia of Islam]], online ed.: ''The name Türk spread as a political designation during the period of Göktürk imperial hegemony to their subject Turkic and non-Turkic peoples. Subsequently, it was adopted as a generic ethnonym designating most if not all of the Turkic-speaking tribes in Central Asia by the Muslim peoples with whom they came into contact.''</ref>