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5 unusual facts about Turan


Topological graph

The prototype of such results is Turán's theorem, where there is one forbidden subgraph: a complete graph with k vertices (k is fixed).

Turan-Mirza Kamal

Kamal was also a composer and would often perform his suite Khroma, which detailed musically the struggle of the Tartar people under the Cossacks.

Turan-Shah

In 1175, he drove out the Hamdanid emir, Ali ibn Hakim al-Wahid, from Sana'a after the latter's army was weakened by continuous raids from the Zaidi tribes of Sa'dah.

His attacks appear to have been highly successful, resulting in the Nubian king based in Dongola, requesting an armistice with Turanshah.

Nonetheless, Turanshah conquered the Nubian town of Ibrim and began to conduct a series of raids against the Nubians.


Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan is featured in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism discussing his famous public quarrel with James Cameron, and recalling how Cameron e-mailed the LA Times’s editors calling for Turan’s firing after Turan wrote a negative review of Titanic.

Polygonum cognatum

Irano-Turanian Region or Iran-Turan Plant Geography Region element, grows between 760–5600 m on rocky and drier slopes; distribution: Central to Western Asia, Turkey, Caucasia (Georgia), Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Senior captain

In the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police, between the ranks of turan (captain) and Jagran (major) is the rank of jag turan.

Turan Corporation

Turan Corporation was founded as Turam (“Turkish-American”) Corporation by Robert P. Smith in 1978, and soon became one of the largest privately held sovereign debt trading firms in the world.

Turan Depression

Three of the largest cities in the Turan Depression are: Daşoguz in Turkmenistan, Nukus in Uzbekistan, and Urganch, also in Uzbekistan.

Ziya Gökalp

Guenter Lewy writes that "practically all interpreters of Gökalp's thought stress that his notion of Turan or Turanism did not involve any expansionist plans".


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