TURKS

Meaning of TURKS in English

n. Turkic-speaking peoples; Turkish language, language spoken in Turkey, language spoken in the country in western Asia and southeastern Europe between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

TURKS — plural of turk
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TURKS — Typkи
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YOUNG TURKS — Turkish Jntrkler, coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdlhamid …
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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS — British dependency in the West Indies, comprising two small groups of islands at the southeastern end of The Bahamas and …
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TURKEY
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CRUSADE — any of a series of military expeditions organized by Western Christians against Muslim powers in order to take possession of …
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WORLD WAR I — also called First World War, or Great War an international conflict that in 191418 embroiled most of the nations of …
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WALACHIA — also spelled Wallachia, Romanian Tara Romneasca, Turkish Iflak principality on the lower Danube River, which in 1859 joined Moldavia to …
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VIENNA, SIEGE OF — (July 17Sept. 12, 1683), expedition by the Turks against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their …
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TURKIC PEOPLES — any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic family of languages. They …
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TRANSYLVANIA — Romanian Transilvania, Hungarian Erdly, German Siebenbrgen historic eastern European region. After forming part of Hungary (11th16th century), it was an …
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THOKOLY, IMRE — born Sept. 25, 1657, Ksmrk, Slovakia died Sept. 13, 1705, Izmit, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey] Hungarian patriot, a leader …
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SERBO-TURKISH WAR — (187678), military conflict in which Serbia and Montenegro fought the Ottoman Turks in support of an uprising in Bosnia and …
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RUSSO-TURKISH WARS — series of wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th19th century. The wars reflected the decline of the …
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REPNIN, NIKOLAY VASILYEVICH, PRINCE (KNYAZ) — born March 11 [March 22, New Style], 1734 died May 12 , 1801, Moscow diplomat and military officer who served …
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PETER I — born c. 1747, , Njego, Montenegro died Oct. 18 [Oct. 30, New Style], 1830, Cetinje Montenegrin in full Petar Petrovic …
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NADIR SHAH — born Oct. 22, 1688, Kobhan, Safavid Iran died June 1747, Fathabad also spelled Nader Shah, original name Nadr Qoli Beg, …
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MYRIOCEPHALON, BATTLE OF — (September 1176), victory of the Seljuq Turks under Qlch Arslan II over the Byzantine army of Manuel I Comnenus in …
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MONGOLIA, FLAG OF
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MOLDAVIA — Moldavia in the mid-16th century Romanian Moldova, Turkish Bogdan principality on the lower Danube River that joined Walachia to form …
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MOHACS, BATTLE OF — (Aug. 29, 1526), decisive defeat of Hungary by the Turks, which marked the effective destruction of the Hungarian monarchy and …
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MILO — born March 7 [March 18, New Style], 1780, Srednja Dobrinja, Serbia [now in Yugoslavia] died Sept. 14 [Sept. 26], 1860, …
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KARADJORDJE — born Nov. 3 [Nov. 14, New Style], 1762, Vievac, Serbia [now in Yugoslavia] died July 13 , 1817, Radovanje byname …
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JOHN V PALAEOLOGUS — born 1332 died Feb. 16, 1391 Byzantine emperor (134191) whose rule was marked by civil war and increased domination by …
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GREEK INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF — (1821-32), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of …
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GRECO-TURKISH WARS — (1897 and 1921-22), two military conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks. The first war, also called the Thirty Days' …
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CARLOWITZ, TREATY OF — Carlowitz also spelled Karlowitz (Jan. 26, 1699), peace settlement that ended hostilities (168399) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy …
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BYZANTINE EMPIRE — the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into …
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AZERBAIJAN — also spelled Azerbaidzhan, officially Azerbaijani Republic, Azerbaijani Azrbayjan Respublikasi, country of eastern Transcaucasia. Occupying an area that fringes the southern …
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ATATRK, KEMAL — ((Turkish: Kemal, Father of Turks), ) born 1881, Salonika [now Thessalonki], Greece died Nov. 10, 1938, Istanbul, Turkey original name …
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ANATOLIA — Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asiatic portion of Turkey. Because of …
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