Gazavâtnâme

Gazavâtnâme, or in another usage gazânâme, is a literary genre in Turkic literature that narrates the army’s raids, battles, heroics, and victories in prose or verse form. @2angry2rot @pighound @5ch-jp

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Timurid ruler Baysunghur observing a hunt from his horse.

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A miniature depicting Yavuz Sultan Selim hunting a tiger by a stream during his campaign against Alaüddevle, the ruler of the Dulkadiroğulları dynasty.

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Siyar-i Nabî. Muhammad and Abu Bakr hide in a cave. Ottoman Empire, 1595.

The New York Public Library; Spencer Collection.

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(The banquet, Maqamat al-Hariri, 13th century)

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A depiction of a Seljuk man, possibly used as a chess piece (12/13th century, Persia)

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King Attila on the throne - Chronicon Pictum

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"Dead Vizier in a Courtyard", Safavids, ca. 1647

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Turkmen warrior in a manuscript from 1224 AD.

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Fergana Valley. Cross road between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan & Tajikistan.

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Kızılay postcards

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Battle of Nicopolis - From "es Passages d'outremer faits par les Français contre les Turcs," 1473

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Bishkek, Kirghizia (former USSR) in 1989, now known as Kyrgyzstan. Lou Di Giorgio

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