Faces of Ancient Middle East Part 14 (Anatolians) HD

Anatolian peoples were a group of distinct ethnic groups which spoke related languages. They shared cultural traits and traditional religion. The Anatolian languages were one branch of the larger Indo-European language family. Extinction All the Anatolian languages (and the cultures accompanying them) are extinct (unless one believes the theory that Armenians are the last Anatolian people, as opposed to being part of a separate culture), although there may be lingering influences on the modern inhabitants of Anatolia. The lands of the Anatolian peoples were invaded by a number of peoples and empires at high frequency: the Medes, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Galatian Celts, the Phrygians and Bithyni (who were related to the Thracians and other Balkan peoples), and the Oghuz Turks. Many of these invaders settled in Anatolia, in some cases causing the extinction of the Anatolian languages. The Anatolian peoples were absorbed, Islamified, and culturally assimilated by the Turkic invaders from Central Asia. This is apparent by the genetics of the modern Turkish people, who are predominantly of Anatolian descent.The Anatolian peoples themselves may have not been culturally indigenous themselves, unless the Indo-European Urheimat was in Anatolia (however, another theory is that it was in Ukraine). List of Anatolian Peoples Hittite people. The Hittites were a people that used to live in Central Anatolia. They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia (on the Central Anatolian plateau). Their language was the Hittite language which was spoken mainly in Central Anatolia and throughout the Hittite Empire. Luwian people Lycian people Carian people Pisidian people Palaic people Lydian people Mysians Pamphylians Little-known Candidates of being ethnically Anatolian Lycaonians Isaurians Lutescans --- Music: The Sultan Becomes Visible - Dervisane