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Turandot – or Turandokht – is a female name in Iran and it means "Turan's Daughter" in Persian (it is best known in the West through Puccini's famous opera Turandot (1921–24)). Turan is also a common name in the Middle East , and as family surnames in some countries including Bahrain , Iran, Bosnia and Turkey .
Map of Eurasia showing the "Altaic" and Uralic language-speaking regions, which are united under the "Turanian" theory. Turanism, also known as pan-Turanism or pan-Turanianism, is a pan-nationalist political movement built around pseudoscientific claims of biological and linguistic connections between various ethnic groups of Eurasia.
Turan was seen as the equivalent to the Roman Venus and the Greek Aphrodite. Her name is the pre-Hellenic root of "Turannos" (absolute ruler, see tyrant), [6] so Turan can be viewed as “Mistress". Turan had a sanctuary in the Greek-influenced Gravisca, the port for Tarquinia, where votive gifts inscribed with her
The Turan society concentrated on Turan as a geographic location where the ancestors of Hungarians might have lived. "The goal of Turanian Society is the cultural and economic progress, confederation, flourishment of all Turanians, i.e. the Hungarian nation and all kindred European and Asian nations, furthermore the geographical, ethnographical ...
According to the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), by the Persian epic poet Ferdowsi, Afrasiab was the king and hero of Turan and an archenemy of Iran. In Iranian mythology, Afrasiab is considered by far the most prominent of all Turanian kings; he is a formidable warrior, a skilful general, and an agent of Ahriman , who is endowed with magical powers ...
It was the kind of scene that the singer, Mahmoud al-Haddad, feared might be in jeopardy as Islamist rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group with origins in global jihad, were advancing ...
German ethnographic or racial map (c. 1889–1901) showing the supposed extent of the Turanid race in Europe The Turanid race was a supposed sub-race of the Caucasian race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races.
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