THE ROLE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF HISTORISM IN ETHNOGENETIC INVESTIGATIONS

Abstract

This article deals with the relationship between the ancient Germanic and ancient Turkic tribes, that is illustrated in historical sources. Interaction between peoples requires contacts between their languages. The events mentioned in the article took place in Europe in the II-IX centuries AD. The historical process, known as the Great Migration of Nations, changed the ethnic and, of course, the linguistic map of Europe. Scandinavian sources claim that most of the central and North Germanic peoples migrated from Eastern Europe and Asia in the 5th -10th centuries AD. The process of the great migration of peoples is one of the most deeply studied events in world history. The beginning and end of the Great Migration of Nations have been periodically and geographically studied by many scholars, historians, geographers and others. However, since the study of this phenomenon has been mostly carried out by European scholars, it is natural that the assessment of this process has always been one-sided. Europeans, as civilized peoples with their highly developed culture, became victims to barbarian peoples, and these barbarians delayed socio-economic development for hundreds of years. This is the traditional European assessment of the Great Migration shared by Chinese, Japanese and other scholars and experts who follow the European scholars and agree with them. No one tried to answer the question of what language the participants in the Great Migration of Nations spoke, because the answer was incompatible with Western ideology, and in order to avoid such answers, they said that “there is no written evidence about this”. Only at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, specialists from Europe, Russia, Turkey and Central Asia realized that the main driving force behind the great migration of peoples was the Huns, and that they were Turkic-speaking peoples. The scholars of the world changed their point of view and focus because they realized that it was the most important part of the problem of the Great Migration of Nations. The article ends with an etymological analysis of the names of some Turkic and Germanic tribes that participated in the Great Migration of Peoples.