Kök Türük

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Turkic [Term?].

Noun

Kök Türük (plural Kök Türüks or Kök Türük)

1. Alternative form of Göktürk
   • 1998, Joseph Ginat, editor, Changing Nomads in a Changing World, page 251:

     […] Kök Türük pastoralists […]

   • 1999, Korkut A. Ertürk, Rethinking Central Asia: Non-Eurocentric Studies in History, page 98:

     While they were the royal lineage of the Kök Türük, they were equally the royal lineage of the Basmil, the On Ok and other confederations of the region in the early Middle Ages.

   • 2003, Rita Liljestrom, Autonomy and Dependence in the Family:

     […] Kök Türük (Old Turkic) terminology from the Orkhon Inscriptions […]