Abstract
The Salar Turks, who are officially accepted as Turks and Sunni-Muslims by China, migrated to the place where they live in China 700 years ago. Despite all the difficulties they have experienced, they have managed to survive to the present day without compromising their language, culture. There is no definite information about when and why they migrated due to the scarcity of written sources about them. For this reason, the identities and pasts of the Salar Turks were blended with different legends and reconstructed. In the study, Russian first-hand sources about the migration and settlement of Salars to China, which have never been used before, were examined and a scientific opinion was put forward for the first time about their migration from Samarkand to China.
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