The atlas
Emre-E. Yavuz
Historian of the Eurasian steppe, author, and the founder of Khan's Den, a documentary channel and podcast on Turkic and steppe history. He writes and edits every article of the Turkic Atlas.
I am Emre-E. Yavuz, founder and producer of KHAN's DEN on YouTube. Having been a student of History, I decided a while ago to explain the History of the early ancient and medieval Turkic peoples.
Emre-E. Yavuz, thekhansden.com
Background
- Graduated in political science and history.
- Has studied the history of the Turkic peoples since his school years, with a particular interest in the ethnogenesis of Turkic identity.
Books
- Das Reich der Göktürken: Aufstieg der Turkvölker German · 2024 Second edition 2025. The full-length German account of the First Göktürk Khaganate.
- Die Göktürken: Ursprung und Aufstieg des Ersten Türkischen Weltreichs der Geschichte German
- The Gokturks: Origins, Religion and Rapid Rise of the First Turkic Empire English The English account.
Khan's Den
- Khan's Den
- Documentary channel on YouTube. A new film every three to four weeks on the political and cultural history of the Turkic peoples.
- Khan's Den Podcast
- The documentaries as audio. Running since 2023; 175 episodes to date.
- thekhansden.com
- Books, films and the podcast in one place.
What he works on
- The Xiongnu and the Huns of Attila
- The Göktürk khaganates, the Uyghurs and the Khazars
- The Turkic and non-Turkic peoples of the Eurasian steppe belt to about 1300
- Tengrism and Turkic mythology
- Old Turkic law
- The Transeurasian hypothesis
- The causes of steppe migration
And here
Every article of the Turkic Atlas is written and edited by him. Where the Turkic Atlas sets a reading of its own against the scholarship, the reading is his. See About for how the atlas is put together, and the suggestion book to reach him.
