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[Hotora86]

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[KhaBeiber]

Khabib is Avar, so he is entirely North Caucasian.

There are Turcic groups in Dagestan, most notable the Kumyks, but they have a bit of a different history from the "locals" so to speak.

Turkic people are mongoloid and descend from ancient Mongolia, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, etc are Turkic people. They're basically Mongolians with very small West Asian mixture. Khabib is an Avar, which is its own, non-mongoloid, Caucasian group.

Avars are their own North Caucasian people with very little mixture throughout history, not a mixture of Mongolians, Arabs and Caucasians like the other guy said. There are Turkic mongoloid ethnic groups in Dagestan, but the majority are Caucasian.

Sounds about right but he is a muslim, says he speaks Turkish and visited Turkey recently for the opening of Instanbul Airport.

Good enough for me.