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Who are the Turks? This study spans Central Asia, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, & Europe, to explain the origins & the history of the Turkish people up until the present day.
Author : Carter V. Findley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195177266
Who are the Turks? This study spans Central Asia, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, & Europe, to explain the origins & the history of the Turkish people up until the present day.
Author : David J. Roxburgh
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Art
ISBN :
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition devoted to the artistic & cultural riches of the Turkic-speaking peoples. Texts by leading scholars trace Turkic history & cultural development, while artefacts ranging from painting, sculpture, textiles, metalwork & ceramics reflect the artistic influences that the Turks assimilated.
Author : Hugh Pope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Turkic peoples
ISBN : 9780715636053
Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the Turkish people, descendants of the nomadic armies that conquered the Byzantine Empire and dominated the region for centuries.
Author : Peter B. Golden
Publisher :
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9783447032742
Author : Peter B. Golden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199793174
A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced over millennia. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.
Author : Erol I. Yorulmazoglu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781545531181
Volume 2 of The Turks continues from where Volume 1 left off. After the Turks migrated away from the Far East, they came into contact with Islam once they reached the Near East. By mastering their military skills they became the masters of the Islamic world nearly for a millennium. Transitioning from nomadic states of the Eurasian steppes to forming formidable empires, they proved to be part of the evolving world history. In fact, as they stretched their influence into the continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa, they contributed in the development of Western in addition to the Asian cultures. By controlling the Silk Road - an important historic avenue that allowed not only the transfer of merchandise across the vast territories of Eurasia but also facilitated the transfer of information and cultural traits between the West and the East - the Turks influenced the evolution of the Western civilization for more than a millennium. The Turks will provide you with what you did not know about them. This volume also shows how the Turkish speakers evolved into their present-day demographic state. Today, the Turks live in the republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Furthermore, they are found in multiple autonomous regions across Eurasia and eastern Turkestan in China. Examining the history of the Turks will give you a different perspective in what you learned about the world history. The Turks provides evidence-based history of a nation that proudly displays its Central Asian culture, which transformed into its modern-day form with a fusion multiple traditions from Arabs, Chinese, Greeks, Indians, Persians, and so on.
Author : Reuven Amitai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9047406338
The interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with emphasis on the Mongol and Turkish peoples.
Author : Ergun Çağatay
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791335155
"Written by a group of eminent scholars, it covers subjects that range from the classification of Turkic languages to religion, literature, the arts, and general lifestyle, from the inception of Turkic history documented by Runic inscriptionson the Orkhon River in Mongolia, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey, from the shamanistic cults of Turks in Siberia to Islam, whose standard bearers were the Ottoman Turks confronting Europe in the Balkans and the Mediterranean." - from back cover.
Author : Karl Heinrich Menges
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783447035330
Author : Rustam Shukurov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004307753
In The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.