Turk
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"THE Rumanians are certainly one of the most curious amongst European nations. The descendants of the conquerors of the ancient world, they live detached from, and far to the north-east of, the other nations of the Greco-Latin family, and not many years ago they were hardly known by name. The grave events of which the Lower Danube has been the scene since the middle of this century have brought these Rumanians prominently to the fore, and we know now that they differ essentially from their neighbours, be they Slav, Turk, or Magyar. They constitute, in fact, one of the most important elements amongst the populations of Eastern Europe, and numerically they are the strongest nation on the Lower Danube, the Bulgarians alone excepted."--The Earth and Its Inhabitants (1875–1894) by Élisée Reclus |
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Turk or Turks may refer to:
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People / Groups
- Turkish people, an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey
- Ottoman Turks, historical Turkish-speaking population of the Ottoman Empire who formed the base of the state's military and ruling classes
- Seljuq Turks, a historical Turkish Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually adopted Persian culture
- Oghuz Turks, a historical Turkic tribal confederation conventionally named Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia during the early medieval period
- Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups that live in northern, eastern, central and western Asia, northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe
- Göktürks, a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia
- Karlugh Turks, an ethnic group found in Pakistan
- Turk (caste), a Muslim community found in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Turk Jamat, a Muslim community found in Gujarat, India
- Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire
Places
- Something relating to or from Turkey, a modern-day nation
- Something relating to or from Turkestan, a region of Central Asia inhabited by Turkic peoples
- Something relating to or from the Ottoman Empire, the historic empire of Turkish people from the 13th to the early 20th century
- "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland
- Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
- Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Turk, California, community in Fresno County
Languages
Individuals
- Turk (surname)
- Turk (rapper), a New Orleans rapper
- Philippe Liégeois, a comic book artist whose pen name is Turk
Technology
- The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine
- Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, is an Amazon web service that pays individuals to perform tasks.
Fiction
- Turks (Final Fantasy VII), minor antagonists in the video game Final Fantasy VII and supporting characters in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series
- Turks, a motorcycle club in the 1985 film Mask
- Christopher Turk, generally known as "Turk", a character on the TV series Scrubs
- Virgil Sollozzo, a character in The Godfather who is nicknamed "The Turk"
- Turkish, a character in Snatch (film) (2000)
- The Turk (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- The Turk a chess computer from the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Turk Barrett, a secondary character from the Daredevil comics
- Terry Lynch, a character in the film Turk 182 whose nickname is Turk
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