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13 unusual facts about Turkic peoples


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Tonyukuk, Turkic grand vizier and commander-in-chief (approximate date)

Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun

Despite his acceptance of his uncle's succession, Abbas became the focus of the factions opposed to Mu'tasim, and in particular his increasing reliance on and favour shown to his Turkish slave-soldiers (ghilman).

Andreas Tietze

Andreas Tietze (26 April 1914 - 22 December 2003) was a world-renowned Austrian Turcologist and one of the founders of Turkic studies in the United States.

Early history of Tajikistan

Before the Soviet era, which began in Central Asia in the early 1920s, the area designated today as the Republic of Tajikistan underwent a series of population changes that brought with them political and cultural influences from the Turkic and Mongol peoples of the Eurasian steppe, China, Iran, Russia, and other contiguous regions.

Faxfleet Preceptory

De Mowbray had been ransomed by the Templars from the Turks who were holding him prisoner.

Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture

Confluence of different architectural styles had been attempted before during the mainly Turkic, Delhi Sultanate and Mughal periods.

After the disintegration of the Turkic Delhi Sultanate, rulers of individual states established their own rule and hence their own architectural styles, which was heavily influenced by local styles.

KZ Manager

KZ Manager is a name shared by many similar resource management computer games putting the player in the role of a Nazi concentration camp "manager", where the "resources" to be managed include, depending on the version of the game, prisoners (either Jews, Turks or Gypsies), poison gas supplies, "normal" money and various equipment, as well as "public opinion" on the "productivity" of the camp.

Muhakamat al-Lughatayn

Turks have a word for the beauty mark on a woman's face, but there is no comparable word in Persian.

Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir

Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir (died 877 CE) was an Abbasid military leader of Turkic origin.

Noqol

Historically they have called themselves Tajik to distinguish themselves, first, from the Qashqai a nomadic Turkic tribe that have been their neighbors for at least two centuries, and secondly from the Lurs, who lived in the west range of the Dena mountains long before them.

One Land, Five Nations

In this region, five different Nations: Armenians, Lors, Georgian, Turkish and Persian are living peacefully together, celebrating their own languages, customs and cultures.

Osrūshana

However, during the reign of the caliph al-Mahdi (775-85) the Afshin of Oshrusana is mentioned among several Iranian and Turkic rulers of Transoxania and the Central Asian steppes who submitted nominally to him.


Altai Uriankhai

The Mongolian term Uriankhai (Uriyangkhai) had been applied to all Samoyed, Turkic or Mongol people to the north-west of Mongolia in the 17th century.

Bayramiye

Bayrami, Bayramiye, Bayramiyya, Bayramiyye, and Bayramilik refer to a Turkish Sufi order (tariqah) founded by Hajji Bayram (Hacı Bayram-ı Veli) in Ankara around the year 1400 as a combination of Khalwatī, Naqshbandī, and Akbarī Sufi Orders.

Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty

The threat from the Arab Muslims was meanwhile reduced by inner struggles and by the rise of the Turks in the east.

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale

It publishes articles in English, French and Mandarin Chinese, and covers a wide range of topics including Generative syntax, Linguistic typologyPhonetics, Phonology and Historical linguistics on all languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic families, as well as on Japanese, Korean and Ainu.

Doquz Khatun

Doquz Khatun (also spelled Dokuz Khatun) (d. 1265) was a Turkic Kerait princess of the 13th century, who was married to the Mongol ruler Hulagu.

Eshrefids

The Eshrefids or Ashrafids (Modern Turkish: Eşrefoğulları or Eşrefoğulları Beyliği ) was one of the Anatolian beyliks with its capital in Beyşehir was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of Sultanate of Rum.

Hajib Shakarbar

Here, I shall only describe what I saw from age five till fourteen, that is, when we had to leave Narhar Sharif due to migration to Pakistan; and what I write may be verified from hundreds of my relatives and town mates in Hyderabad Sindh as well as from hundreds of Narhari Turks living in Moro Sindh.

Malaysian Chinese religion

According to the Encyclopedia of Malaysia, there are records where Persian and Turkish traders with Nestorian Christian origins came around the year 650 CE, but it was not until the conquest of Malacca by the Portuguese in year 1511, that marked the introduction of Roman Catholicism.

Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans

Their translation is uncertain, but there appears to be a consensus that they are based on a system similar to the Chinese calendar (which was also adopted by many Turkic peoples and by the Mongols), with a cycle of 12 years, each bearing the name of an animal.

Oirats

Comprising the Khoshut (Хошууд Hošuud), Choros or Ölöt (Өөлд Ööld), Torghut (Торгууд Torguud), and Dörbet (Дөрвөд Dörvöd) tribes, they were dubbed Kalmyk or Kalmak, which means "remnant" or "to remain", by their western Turkic neighbors.

Reyhanlı

Formerly known as İrtah and Reyhaniye, Reyhanlı has been settled by Turks since the 16th century especially with Turkish "muhacir" (refugees), Turkic tribes from Rey and later in the 19th century from the Caucasus and Cyprus.

Sergey Malov

For the Foreign Ministry, S.E. Malov studied languages and customs of Turkic peoples living in China (Uyghurs, Salars, Sarts, and Kyrgyz).

Strategikon of Maurice

The eleventh book has ethnographic interest, with its portrayal of various Byzantine enemies (Franks, Lombards, Avars, Turks, and Slavs).