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Turanian is a term that has been used in reference to diverse groups of people. It has had currency in Turanism, Pan-Turkism, and historic Turkish nationalism. Many of the uses of the word are obsolete. It may refer to: An Iranic ethnic group mentioned in the Avesta See Turanian (Avesta) See Turan; The Turkic peoples and Turkic countries; The ...
Combined with physical anthropology, the concept of the Turanian mentality has a clear potential for cultural polemic. Thus in 1838 the scholar J.W. Jackson described the Turanid or Turanian race in the following words: [36] The Turanian is the impersonation of material power. He is the merely muscular man at his maximum of collective development.
Map of Eurasia showing the "Altaic" and Uralic language-speaking regions, which are united under the "Turanian" theory. Turanism, also known as pan-Turanism or pan-Turanianism, is a pan-nationalist political movement built around pseudoscientific claims of biological and linguistic connections between various ethnic groups of Eurasia.
German ethnographic or racial map (c. 1889–1901) showing the supposed extent of the Turanid race in Europe The Turanid race was a supposed sub-race of the Caucasian race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races.
Hungarian Turanism (Hungarian: Turánizmus / Turanizmus) is a diverse Turanist phenomenon that revolves around an identification or association of Hungarian history and people with the histories and peoples of Central Asia, Inner Asia or the Ural region.
Turya or Turanian (Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, tūriia) is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. [1] In those texts, the Turyas closely interact with the Aryas , i.e. the early Iranians. [ 2 ]
The Turanian Society (Turkish: Turan Cemiyeti, Tatar: Turan Cämğiäte, Hungarian: Turáni Társaság) was a society founded in 1839 by Tatars with the goal of uniting the various Turkic peoples living in the Russian Empire. The organisation is one of the earliest forerunners of modern Turanism and, in a more narrow sense, Pan-Turkism.
Between the 1850s and 1870s, there were efforts by Frederick Roehrig to including some Native American languages in a "Turanian" or "Ural-Altaic" family, and between the 1870s and 1890s, there was speculation about links with Basque. [27]