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Orkhon Valley sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 360 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar.

For many centuries, the Orkhon Valley was viewed as the seat of the imperial power of the steppes. The first evidence comes from a stone stele with runic inscriptions, which was erected in the valley by Bilge Khan, an 8th-century ruler of the Göktürk Empire. Some 25 miles to the north of the stele, in the shadow of the sacred forest-mountain Ötüken, was his Ördü, or nomadic capital. During the Qidan domination of the valley, the stele was reinscribed in three languages, so as to record the deeds of a Qidan potentate.

Mountains were considered sacred in Tengriism as an axis mundi, but Ötüken was especially sacred because the ancestor spirits of the khagans and beys resided here. Moreover, a force called qut was believed to emanate from this mountain, granting the khagan the divine right to rule the Turkic tribes.[1] Whoever controlled this valley was considered heavenly appointed leader of the Turks and could rally the tribes. Thus control of the Orkhon Valley was of the utmost strategic importance for every Turkic state. Historically every Turkic capital (Ördü) was located here for this exact reason.

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  • @Oyrad58 Laflarina dikkat et bende Aleviyim ve Türküm biz Aleviler sizin gibi Araplasmiyoruz !! Alevilik cok eskidir ve Türklügün mezhepidir bidaga Aleviler hakkinda sacma sapan seyler yazarsan verecegim cevap sevindirici olmayacak !! Ilk Türklük gelir sonra Din !!

    Sen benim icin bir Türk bile degilsin bana Türklügü anlatma bir TÜRK asla AKP yi desteklemez bana Türkmenlik taslama yoksa kötü olur.

    Ne demek sadece ic anadolu Türkdür? Türkiye Trakya dan Anadolu ya kadar TÜRK yurdudur

  • @burakkk55 Do you know how many muslims Timur killed and btw he was from a mongol tribe which was Turcosized get your history right

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  • @TatarTuruk ben muslumanim ve araplari sevmiyom muslumanlik araplastirmak demek degil osmanlilar arap topraklari alip turkiyenin turklerini biraz araplastirdi kulturdan kiyafetlerden ve biraz dil kelimelerden neyse o konuya girmek istemiyorum evet sen turksun ve turk kardesimsin ama aramizda diginden bir sey fark var ... sen anadoglu turksun ben turkiyeden ama bir cok altay gen bowrim

  • May Tengri bless and protect all turkic and mongolic people ! Altaic Pride ! Fuck China ! FREE INNER MONGOLIA !!! FREE UYGHURISTAN !!! FREE TIBET !!!

  • Attila khan

  • Turan is an Iranian word for central asia

  • @Sikerge haha sktir lan sivas ve kayseri önce selçuklu türkmen sonra 200 yıl moğol (ilhanlı-kadı burhanettin- eretna) egemenliginde kaldı. sonra türk-moğol orduları timur geldi bu bölgeye. yani 1000 yıldır Türk yurdu buralar. köylerde has Türkçe konuşulur cirit oynanır!

  • @Sikerge haha sen öyle san. ermeniler kayseri ve çevresinde hep hristiyan olarak kaldı. 1915 yılında da siktir edilip sürüldüler! kayseri de avşarlar, sivasta elbeyliler, yazgatta kara tatarlar...burası anadoluda ki Türkmen kalesi. sol partiler toplamda burada %10 u geçemez.

    sende muhtemelen egeden falansındır. levanten, sabetayist, rum, boşnak, arnavut ne kadar gayrı türk varsa doluşmuş oraya :)

  • Kayseri, Sivas ve Yozgat bu şehirler eskiden Ermenilerin yoğun olarak yaşadıkları şehirlerdi. Bu bölgede müslümanlaşmış, türkleşmiş çok ermeni vardır.

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