#turkestan

[songs-of-the-east]

Turkistan, Kazakhstan

[turanasena]

Bir ülkedir uzakta,

Yaralıdır tuzakta..(çinde!)

Uzağında kalsakta,

Gönlümüzde orası var…

[philoursmars]

Au Louvre-Lens, une expo : "Par delà les Mille-et-une Nuits - Histoires des Orientalismes" :

Vantaux de porte - Egypte, 1400 ; tapis, Iran, 1540

coffret en ivoire et argent - Madinat-al-Zahra, Espagne, 966

croc de cérémonie, emblème de confrérie - Iran, 1500

Jean-Léon Gérôme - "A vendre, Esclaves au Caire" - 1873

sabre en acier et fourreau - Turkestan ou Caucase, 1700-1900

couverture de couette (yorgan yüzü) en lin et fils de soie - Turquie, 1650

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[along-the-silkroad]

Wall painting from a Christian church, Qocho (Gaochang), 683–770 CE. The murals from the Christian temple at Qocho (German: Wandbilder aus einem christlichen Tempel, Chotscho) consist of three fragments from Church of the East wall paintings—Palm Sunday, Repentance, and Entry into Jerusalem. These were discovered by the German Turpan expedition in the early 20th century, led by archaeologists Albert Grünwedel and Albert von Le Coq.

Dating from the 7th to 9th centuries, the murals originated in a now-ruined Church of the East structure in Qocho, an ancient oasis city in Chinese Turkestan—modern-day Xinjiang, China—which once served as the capital of the Uyghur Kingdom of Qocho. The original Entry into Jerusalem mural has been lost; only a line drawing made by Grünwedel survives. Today, the surviving murals are housed in the Museum of Asian Art in Dahlem, Berlin.

[historyfiles]

Western Gokturks: the western half essentially created a vast region in Central Asia known as Turkestan, which later divided into various states and remains divided today.

Kingdoms of Central Asia - Western Khagans (Göktürks)

Coverage of the various historical cultures, rulers, and states of the Far East

[baebeylik]

Bowl with a Repeat Design of the Arabic Letter kaf. Turkestan or Kazakhstan. 900-990 CE.

Cincinnati Art Museum.

[leroibobo]

other than china proper, we can find some of the most remnants of manichaeism's heyday across territories of the former uyghur khagnate, where it was the state religion throughout its existence from 744 to 840. it maintained a significant presence until uyghur sultan satuq bughra khan became the first turkic ruler to convert to islam in 934.

this is one of a number of fragments from various manichaean books and temples dating to the 8th-9th century that were found near ruins in turpan and gaochang. all are written in the sogdian language.

[siberikan]

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