The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: a case study of Ashkenazi Jews [PDF]
, 2016 In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das and co-authors have attempted to trace the homeland of Ashkenazi Jews and of their historical language, Yiddish (Das et al. 2016.
Changmai, P +5 more
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups [PDF]
, 2008 Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local ...
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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A mysterious animal called Al-Wark [PDF]
, 2015 The paper examines the mysterious term al-wark, which–according to Maḥmūd of Kāşğarī (11th century AD)–denotes a small animal similar to a badger (Turk. borsmuk) in the Xakani language. This animal was treated as a symbol of fatness. It is suggested that
Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 128-137, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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Turkic-Mongolian Names of Neat and Small Cattle in the Khalkha Mongolian Language
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article investigates the terms for cattle and small ruminants on the material of the modern Khalkha-Mongolian language and compares them with the corresponding names of animals in the ancient Turkic language.
V. Rassadin
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Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları DergisiIn the historical study of contemporary Turkic languages and dialects, primary sources include not only spoken language and folklore but also ancient written literary-historical works in Turkish.
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TOPONIMYS WITH ANCIENT TURK ORIGINS IN THE BALKANS [PDF]
, 2013 One of the sources dealing with the ancient Turkic history are toponyms.Toponymic investigations show that most of the ancient geographical names whichhave spread in Eurosia, in Central Asia, from North Africa, to Eastern Turkistaneven in Siberia and ...
Hajiyeva Galiba
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The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V. +3 more
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