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Alp Er Tunga

Legendary Turkic Khan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Alp Er Tunga or Alp Er Tonga[1] (Alp "brave, hero, conqueror, warrior",[2] Er "man, male, soldier, Tom",[3] Tonga/Tunga "Siberian tiger") is a mythical Turkic hero who was mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Yusuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bilig and in the Vatican manuscript of Oghuznama by an unknown writer.[4]

The Karakhanids claimed to have descended from Alp Er Tunga.[4]

Alp Er Tunga Epic

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