• The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks...
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  • Orkhon Turkic (also Göktürk), is the first stage of Old Turkic, known as the oldest Turkic literary language preceding Old Uyghur. It is generally used...
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  • Orkhon (Mongolian: Орхон) may refer to: Orkhon River, Mongolia Orkhon Valley, the landscape around that river Orkhon Province, an Aimag (province) in Mongolia...
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    The Orkhon River (/ˈɔːrkɒn/; Mongolian: Орхон гол [ˈɔrχɞɴ‿ɢɜɮ]) is a river in Mongolia. The Orkhon river derives its name from the Old Turkic prefix "or"...
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    Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape (/ˈɔːrkɒn/; Mongolian: Орхоны хөндийн соёлын дурсгал, Orkhonii khöndiin soyoliin dursgal, Mongolian Script:ᠣᠷᠬᠣᠨ ᠤ ᠬᠥᠨᠳᠡᠢ...
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    The Orkhon inscriptions (also known as the Orhon inscriptions, Orhun inscriptions, Khöshöö Tsaidam monuments (also spelled Khoshoo Tsaidam, Koshu-Tsaidam...
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    Orkhon (Mongolian: Орхон) is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia, located in the north of the country. Its capital is Erdenet. The province is...
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  • Old Turkic (redirect from Orkhon language)
    century. Old Turkic can generally be split into two dialects, the earlier Orkhon Turkic and the later Old Uyghur. There is a difference of opinion among...
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    the aimag (province) of Orkhon. Located in the northern part of the country, it lies in a valley between the Selenge and Orkhon rivers about 240 km (149 mi)...
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  • Orkhon University is nonprofit private university in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Founder Khajidsuren Nyamaa established the university in 1992 as Orkhon Institute...
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    The Orkhon (Mongolian: орхон) is a Mongolian breed of sheep first developed in 1961. This medium, semi-fine wool breed is now reared primarily for wool...
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  • Pürevdorjiin Orkhon (born 25 December 1993) is a Mongolian freestyle wrestler. She competed in the women's freestyle 58 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics...
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    Mongolia. They are in the upper part of the World Heritage Site Orkhon Valley. The Orkhon valley was a center of the Xiongnu, Göktürk, and Uyghur empires...
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    lower end of the upper valley of the Orkhon River which is included within UNESCO's World Heritage Site Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape. The location...
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    worship is found in the Old Turkic Orkhon inscriptions, dated to the early 8th century. Written in the so-called Orkhon script, these inscriptions record...
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  • Orkhon (Mongolian: Орхон) is a sum (district) of Bulgan Province in northern Mongolia. The former Soviet Army military base area (10 km long from west...
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    The Selenge–Orkhon forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0816) stretches across north central Mongolia, and follows the Selenga River northeast into Russia...
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    Selenga (redirect from Selenga-Orkhon)
    sturgeon and over 170 species of birds. The Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe includes the areas of the Orkhon and Selenge river basins. The region has scattered...
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  • Mongolia's goal tally first. Munkh-Orgil Orkhon at the Mongolian Football Federation website "Mönkh-Orgil Orkhon". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann...
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    mythology and religion. The book is written in Old Turkic alphabet like the Orkhon inscriptions. Archura, an evil forest demon. Qarakorshaq, a hiding animal-like...
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    River. It flew down the Orkhon Valley and created thick layers of volcanic rock which stretched out for several kilometers. The Orkhon River then passed through...
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    Mongolian Plateau. The Merkits lived in the basins of the Selenga and lower Orkhon River (modern south Buryatia and Selenge Province). After a struggle of...
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  • the mid 8th and 9th centuries. It was a tribal confederation under the Orkhon Uyghur (回鶻) nobility, referred to by the Chinese as the Jiu Xing ("Nine...
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    The Second Khaganate was centered on Ötüken in the upper reaches of the Orkhon River. It was succeeded by its subject Toquz Oghuz confederation, which...
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    Sui in 585 described him as "the Great Turk Khan". The Bugut (584 CE) and Orkhon inscriptions (735 CE) use the terms Türküt, Türk and Türük. During the first...
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  • Orkhon (Mongolian: Орхон) is a sum (district) of Darkhan-Uul Province in northern Mongolia. In 2009, its population was 3,185., being the northernmost...
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    Ölgii Uvs Khovd Zavkhan Govi-Altai Bayankhongor Arkhangai Khövsgöl Bulgan Orkhon Övörkhangai Ömnögovi Dundgovi Töv Ulaanbaatar Selenge Darkhan-Uul Govisümber...
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    Orkhon (Mongolian: Орхон) is a sum (district) of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia. In 2008, its population was 2,165. Selenge Aimag Statistical Office...
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    Khangal Khishig-Öndör Khutag-Öndör Mogod Orkhon Rashaant Saikhan Selenge Teshig 4 sum Darkhan Khongor Orkhon Sharyngol 14 sum Bayan-Uul Bayandun Bayantümen...
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  • (Mongolian: жаргалант, "Happiness", also Ulaantolgoi) is a sum (district) of Orkhon Province in central northern Mongolia. In 2009, its population was 3,166...
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