It is accepted that cities have emerged on earth since the Sumerians. The cities thatappeared for the first time in the Mesopotamia region in the Eastern Civilization spreadto other parts of the world over time. The building materials used in the cities differedaccording to the regions, which has been effective in the permanence of the architecturalstructures in the cities. Some of the cities established in the past have been destroyed andhave not survived. Some of these have left no traces, but some of them have survived intoruins. Almost none of the ancient Turkish cities before Islam, which is the subject of thestudy, have survived. Throughout history, it is known that cities have been establishednear rivers. The first city ruins identified belonging to the Asian Huns BC dated to the 1stcentury. In this study; the emergence and development of pre-Islamic Turkish cities,almost none of which could come to our time, was revealed. This study was limited to theHuns, Gok-Turks, Uighurs and the city of Kayalik the capital of Karluk. The articleincludes research works based on first-hand sources and archaeological studies (book,book chapter, article, thesis, encyclopedia article), and the states that emerged with theacceptance of the Islam of the Turks and the works they built were excluded from thescope because they are a separate research subject.