Orkhon Valley -- Turkic inscription

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.

The inscriptions of
Tonyukuk (720 AD) (http://www.tonyukuk.net/tongiris.htm),
Kül Tigin (732 AD) (http://www.tonyukuk.net/kolgiris.htm) and
Bilge Kağan (735 AD) (http://www.tonyukuk.net/bilgegiris.htm) - original right-to-left runic text with transcription and Turkish translation (download the Orkhon Turkic Runic Font (http://www.tonyukuk.net/Orkun.ttf) and save it as orkun.ttf)

Museum of Mongolian History
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/ubhist/turk.html


Want to learn Orkhon:
http://irq.kaznpu.kz/index.php?lang=e

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[Altaic90]

The place to start a new empire.

[99840689]

Yes you can see Turk remains there, Orkhon Valley is the World Heritage nominated from Mongolia.

[Altaic90]

sag - sol

bilim ucun

***. bilgitay. net/ orhun/ index. php

[Baatyr840]

Al zherde Qyrgyz Nuur degen kol, Hirgis degen qalaa dagy bar.

[TuncerWolf]

Bu Asyanli Turk muzigi adisi ne lutfen?

What this Asian Turkish music called please?

[ultranety]

were all huns and there decendents the Mongolic and The Turkic peoples.

[bipkatr]

@84Booster

do it, if you can of course :)

[gainweighttoday]

how many inscriptions are there?

[uuganbat]

singing in turkish

[casslovestiger]

can i please have some of your photos including the map for an assigment if you wouldn't mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TuncerWolf]

United Empire. :)

[TuncerWolf]

Yok Arapca yazisi degil, yok Latince degil, yok yunanli/rumce. Bunlar yanliz Turk, iste Orhun/Orkhon Turk bizim :D

[cCcMaSSaKacCc46]

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