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Orkhon

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Orkhon , river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising in the Khangai Mts., N central Republic of Mongolia, and flowing east, then north, past the site of ancient Karakorum, and then northeast to join the Selenga River just S of the Russian border. It is navigable for shallow-draft vessels only during July and August. The Orkhon Inscriptions, discovered in 1889 by the Russian explorer N. M. Yadrinstev near the site of ancient Karakorum, date from the 8th cent. They comprise minor Chinese texts and the oldest known material in a Turkic language. They were studied in 1891 by the Russian turkologist... Read more

Orkhon
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Orkhon any of a number of 8th-century stone monuments discovered in northern Mongolia in 1889; the extinct Turkic language in which inscriptions on these monuments are written. Read more

Karakorum
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ruined city, central Republic of Mongolia, near the Orkhon River, SW of Ulaanbaatar. The area around Karakorum...Yadrinstev, a Russian explorer, who also uncovered the Orkhon Inscriptions (see Orkhon ). Karakorum is also the name of a nearby site... Read more

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	BREAKING THE ORKHON TRADITION: KIRGHIZ ADHERENCE TO THE YENISEI REGION AFTER A.D. 840. Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...the Mongolian plateau, particularly the Orkhon River valley--the traditional heartland...brief and inconsequential control of the Orkhon valley. For a number of reasons, the Kirghiz...Khitans extended their power into the Orkhon region in the tenth century, they did... Read more
	Turkey to Strengthen Protection of Historic Site ANKARA, March 19 Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 3/19/2000; 488 words ; ...finalize a project to protect the 8th century Orkhon inscriptions, Turkish historic site in...The inscriptions, located close to the Orkhon River northwest ofthe Mongolian capital...countries with the aim of protecting the Orkhon inscriptions, restoring them, exhibiting... Read more
	Turkey, Mongolia to Further Cultural Cooperation ANKARA, March 27 Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 3/27/2000; 203 words ; ...countries will cooperate in the preservation of the 8th century Orkhon Inscriptions, the first appearance of Turkish culture and language. The lace-like inscriptions, located near the Orkhon River, northwest of the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, are... Read more
	THE TURKIC SPEAKING PEOPLES: 1,500 YEARS OF ART AND CULTURE FROM WESTERN CHINA TO THE BALKANS Magazine article from: Middle East; 10/1/2007; ; 184 words ; ...religion, literature, the arts, and general lifestyle; from the inception of Turkic history documented by Runic inscriptions on 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... Read more
	Top Achievers; The following students in grades 9-12 were named to the top honor roll at their schools this fall. In most cases, the top honor roll requires an A in every subject. Not all schools are listed. Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/8/2005; 700+ words ; ...Queenie Au Katherine Barno Jeanette Dabrowski Stephen Dunlap Cecilia Enriques-Zurita Allison Hunn Andrea Jaimes David Kamensky Orkhon Khishighargal Dacie Marshall Patricia Sever Alexandra Soderholm Rebecca Spavins Jennifer Tran Sarah Weber GRADE 12 Gregory Anderson... Read more
	Top Achievers; These students were named to the highest honor rolls at their schools in the last grading period. Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/11/2004; 700+ words ; ...Monica Day Stephen Dunlap Huan Duong Raquel Farah-Robison Larissa Gibbs Sara Holsten Dolores Huberts Allison Hunn David Kamensky Orkhon Khishigjargal Raney Kim Mosammat Kobra John McGrail David McNally Anne Moriarity Jennifer Nguyen Janelle Prange Alain Ramirez-Lop... Read more
	An encyclopedia of ancient languages.(The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages)(Book review) Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...description of all known ancient language ; nevertheless, scholars of Inner Asia will be disappointed not to find a chapter on Orkhon Turkic or Old Uighur, and I myself would have liked to see a treatment of Tocharian and even Old Church Slavic (ninth century... Read more
	Flip side of World Heritage status Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/17/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...everything from the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal and Angkor Wat to the Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland and the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape in Mongolia.But as the list expands each year, many, including Unesco staff members, are left wondering... Read more

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