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Turkic Atlas, by Emre-E. Yavuz — a collage of paintings, murals and inscriptions of the Turkic steppe peoples

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A source-critical encyclopaedia of the Old Turkic steppe empires, with a focus on the years 400 to 924 AD. All articles were curated by the owner.

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Made by Emre-E. Yavuz. Set in Gentium Plus and Noto Sans Old Turkic. The motto is from the Kül Tegin inscription, east face, and the mark is the name of the Göktürks in their own script. The emblems are drawn for this site after the monuments: the ibex of the Orkhon stelae, the wolf's head the Göktürk set on their standards, the balbal with his cup, and the stele on its tortoise.

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