Posted on 03/11/2005 12:03:58 PM PST by blam
Coin discovery sheds light on Turkic civilization
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Göktürk find refutes claims that the Turkic peoples were merely plunderers and barbarians
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
Ancient coins from the first known Turkic culture, the Göktürks, have been discovered during archeological excavations in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, reported the Doðan News Agency.
Associate Professor Yavuz Daloðlu, an instructor at Dokuz Eylül University who presented the findings of historian Dr. Babayar Gaybullah to the public, stated that claims asserting that the Göktürk people did not have any structure of governance have been proven wrong by this discovery. He commented that this discovery refutes claims that the Turkic peoples were merely plunderers and barbarians.
Daloðlu, who attended the Second International Turkish Civilization Congress sponsored by Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Menas University in Bishkek on Oct. 4-6 2004, met with Uzbek historian Gaybullah. Daloðlu began studying coins from ancient Turkic civilization brought to the congress by Gaybullah and came across the Göktürk pieces, which he had never seen before. He said these were an important discovery in the history of Turkic civilization. Stating that he was familiar with coins from the Selcuk and Ottoman eras, he said he had never heard nor read that the Göktürks had minted coins of their own. On one face of the coin was the likeness of a khan in the center with three stars and a moon on the edges.
Coins belonging to the Türgiþ of the eighth century, after the Göktürks, had previously been discovered, but the Göktürk coins date from approximately 150 to 200 years earlier, around A.D. 576-600. This discovery is as important as the discovery of Orhun script. Money is used where social trade and economy exist, indicating an important contribution to world civilization.
The coins are believed to be in Sogd, Baktri and Pehlevi script with titles such as Kaðan, Hatun, Yabgu, Tegin Tudun, Tarhan and Elteber. The various levels of authority can be understood from observing these coins, as the names of state officials are engraved beside the khans' names. Daloðlu stated that important information has come to light with the studies conducted on these ancient coins.
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Good Stuff, Thanks for posting.
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Just wait... next thing will be the Turks fiercely objecting to America's bloody slaughter of Turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners !!! ;-))
That a Göktürk chief melted down their looted gains, and produced currency with his likeness doesn't most likely means that they were somewhat organized plunderers and barbarians.
Something you didn't know about turkeys.
Turkeys and Guinna(sp) pigs are the only animals ever domesticated in South America. When the Spanish arrived, they took the domesticated turkey back to Europe where it spread far and wide. When the Pilgrims came to America, they brought the domesticated turkey with them...many escaped and all the wild turkeys in North America today have some of the genes from the domesticated turkeys brought by the Pilgrims.
South Americans didn't invent the wheel because they didn't have any large draft animals for draft or eating. Eating protein....that's what all the ritual sacrifices were about, protein. There was a whole butchering industry focused around this ritual killing of humans. Barbecue is the Carib Indian word for 'roasted human arm.'
Barbecue is the Carib Indian word for 'roasted human arm.'
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Oh goodie goodie... let's barbecue Michael Schiavo's arms...
and then munch on Judge George Greer's arms for desert !!! ;-))
Probably not a sign of some great political union, but a coin-minting city-state kinda fits into the overall milieu.
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Muslim Turks never give up fabricating history in order to assuage their sordid past.
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