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The English name for Turkey is derived from the Medieval Latin Turchia (c.1369). The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, subdivides into two words: Türk, meaning "strong" in Old Turkish and usually signifying the inhabitants of Turkey or a member of the Turkish or Turkic peoples, a later form of "tie-le" (铁勒) or "tu-jue" (突厥), name given by the Chinese to the people living south of the Altay Mountains of Central Asia as early as 177 BC; and the abstract suffix -iye, which means "owner" or "related to". The first recorded use of the term "Türk" or "Türük" as an autonym is attested in the Orkhon inscriptions of the Köktürks (Blue Turks) of Central Asia (c. 8th century CE)....

In different languages

Name of Turkey in different languages derive essentially from the word "Turk", combined with suffixes that give the meaning of "owner", "land of" or "related to".
Language Name
Albanian Turqia
Arabic تركيا - Transliteration: Turkīya
Armenian Թուրքիա - Transliteration: Turk'ia
Azerbaijani Türkiyə
Bulgarian Турция - Transliteration: Turtsiya, Turcija
Chinese 土耳其
Croatian Turska
Czech Turecko
Danish Tyrkiet
Dutch Turkije
Esperanto Turkio or Turkujo (archaic)
Faroese Turkaland (land of Turks)
Finnish Turkki
French Turquie
Georgian თურქეთი - Transliteration: Turk'eti
German Türkei
Greek Τουρκία - Transliteration: Tourkìa
Hebrew תורכיה - Transliteration: Turkiya
Hungarian Törökország
Icelandic Tyrkland
Indonesia Тurki
Interlingua Turchia
Italian Turchia
Japanese トルコ - Transliteration: Toruko
Korean 터키 - Transliteration: Tŏki
Kurdish Tirkiyê
Latin Turcia
Laz Turkona
Macedonian Турција - Transliteration: Turcija, Turtsiya
Persian ترکیه - Transliteration: Torkīye
Polish Turcja
Portuguese Turquia
Romanian Turcia
Russian Турция - Transliteration: Turtsiya, Turcija
Serbian Турска - Transliteration: Turska
Spanish Turquía
Swedish Turkiet
Syriac ܬܘܪܟܝܐ - Transliteration: Turkia
Turkish Türkiye
Ukrainian Туреччина - Transliteration: Turechchina, Tureččina
Zazaki Tırkiye

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