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[Joe Shearer]

Gokturks called Themselves Turks, Muslims called central asians Turks, romans as well as called them Turks, they even mistakenly called some non-Turkic speaking steppe nomads as Turks. what else you need ?

Descendants of the Scythians were long times ago scattered and assimilated.

These are largely examples of the word Turk being used long before the coalescence of the Turkish tribes.

Gokturks called Themselves Turks, Muslims called central asians Turks, romans as well as called them Turks, they even mistakenly called some non-Turkic speaking steppe nomads as Turks. what else you need ?

Descendants of the Scythians were long times ago scattered and assimilated.

These are largely examples of the word Turk being used long before the coalescence of the Turkish tribes.

 

[Targon]

Who said they're united as a one ethnicity ? for steppe tribes their own tribal identity was always coming first, ethnicity by the modern meanings came later. buts its not means they were treated as completely different peoples, simpliest example is Qasghari's work who is himself a Turk, he gathered all the traditions, literature, dialect characteristics, geoghraphical info of all the Turkic speaking tribes in one book under the name of Divan'ul Lugat'it Turk.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Who said they're united as a one ethnicity ? for steppe tribes their own tribal identity was always coming first, ethnicity by the modern meanings came later. buts its not means they were treated as completely different peoples, simpliest example is Qasghari's work who is himself a Turk, he gathered all the traditions, literature, dialect characteristics, geoghraphical info of all the Turkic speaking tribes in one book under the name of Divan'ul Lugat'it Turk.

And these were all Turkish speaking from Roman times!!!

 

[Targon]

What do you mean ?

 

[kharku]

you seem to know a lot about archery; could you please tell me which type of wood is used to build turkish bow's or what type of wood is used for anglo bows

 

[aghaishere]

For many years the excellence of Turkish bows could be seen from historical records. The record distance in the Ottoman period for an arrow shot was 845.5m. (Bows made only of wood have been much less suited to flight archery; the northern European flight archery record to 1910 was 340m, achieved with a long-bow of Osage-orange wood, and a force of over 700N or 157 lb was needed to draw the bow.) In 1910 an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Ingo Simon was able to shoot an arrow 434 m using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of 440N or 99 lb.

Zihgir is the Turkish word for the thumb ring used to draw the bow in the Ottoman Empire. Turkish thumb rings were made of wood, metal, ivory, bone, horn or leather. These rings signified that the person wearing them was a warrior. In time they became a symbol of prestige in Ottoman society, and some later examples have so much ornamentation on the surface from which the bowstring slides that they could not be used to shoot with. Surviving examples are often made of precious metals and richly decorated. Some are carved from precious stones.

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