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Excerpt from A Manual on the Turanians and Pan-Turanianism: Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty The present Manual has been written with a view to supplying the information which is essential to a thorough understanding of the character and aims of 'Pan-Turanianism'. The work is divided into six chapters. The first, after stating the source and meaning of the term 'Turanian', furnishes a general survey of the Turanian race, setting forth its origin, migrations, present distribution, numbers, characteristics, language, religion, and civilization. The following chapters describe the five main branches of the Turanian people together with the subdivisions of each branch. Each chapter begins with a general characterization of the branch with which it deals. Then comes a detailed account of the tribes forming divisions of the main branch. Each is uniformly described with regard to its habitat, name, number, mode of life, characteristics, language, literature, religion, and history. This arrangement is intended to facilitate the comparison of the numerous tribes described in the Manual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.