The Turkic Speaking Peoples

Download or read book The Turkic Speaking Peoples written by Ergun Çağatay and published by Prestel Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by a group of eminent scholars, it covers subjects that range from the classification of Turkic languages to religion, literature, the arts, and general lifestyle, from the inception of Turkic history documented by Runic inscriptionson the Orkhon River in Mongolia, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey, from the shamanistic cults of Turks in Siberia to Islam, whose standard bearers were the Ottoman Turks confronting Europe in the Balkans and the Mediterranean." - from back cover.