Tiele people
*Tegreg? | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Northern China, Altai Mountains, Xinjiang (Dzungaria) and the Pontic–Caspian steppe (by 6th century) | |
| Languages | |
| Turkic | |
| Religion | |
| Tengrism, Shamanism, Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dingling, Xiongnu, and later Turkic peoples |
| History of the Turkic peoples pre–14th century |
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The Tiele (Chinese: 鐵勒; pinyin: Tiělè), also transliterated as Chile (Chinese: 敕勒), Dili (Chinese: 狄歷), Zhile (Chinese: 直勒) and Tele (Chinese: 特勒), who were also known by the Chinese exonym Gaoche (Chinese: 高車) or Gaoju, were a tribal confederation of Turkic ethnic origins living to the north of China proper and in Central Asia, emerging after the disintegration of the confederacy of the Xiongnu. Chinese sources associate them with the earlier Dingling.