Turkic Collection

Archers on horseback, Central Asia
Warrior archers (Batyrs) on horseback, Central Asia (Kazakhstan area)

Buman (Illig Qaghan), founder of Kaghanate Bum�an (Illig Qaghan)
Bumin Khagan (Illig Qaghan, reigned 551-552), founder of the Turkic Kaghanate. This form of government was typical for the Eurasian Steppe from the 6th to the 10th century. circa 6th century

Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs), Kazakhstan
Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs) in battle dress on horseback, with Turkic military equipment and armour, Kazakhstan

Delhi, India - Tomb of Shams ud-Din Iltutmish
The Tomb of Shams ud-Din Iltutmish (r. 12111236), the third ruler of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi of Turkic origin, at the Qutb complex

Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Jereed. Traditonal sport of Turks
Ottoman Empire. Turkish Jereed. Traditional sport of Turks played since centuries form the times of Turkic States. Engraving by Lemaitre, H. Lalaisse and Chaillot

Turkmenistan - Merv - The Carpet Market (Bazaar)
Turkmenistan - The Carpet Market (Bazaar) - near the site of Ancient Merv, formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria

Tamerlane - Timur Lenk
TIMUR LENK (Timur the Lame) Turkic conqueror, made himself Lord of Transoxiana with capital at Samarkand. Died during expedition to conquer China

Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market
Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market andria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary in Turkmenistan

Turkestan - One man riding a bull and two on a donkey! Date: circa 1909

Altay - Russia
The Altay or Altai are an ethnic group of Turkic people living in the Siberian Altai Republic and Altai Krai and surrounding areas of Tuva and Mongolia. circa 1910s

Wheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, Russia
Wheeled tents of the Tartars or Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group in Russia

Torbat Heydarrieh Ghotbed-Din Heydar - Iran
Torbat-e Heydarieh (Zava, Zaveh), Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran - The tomb of Qotboddin Heydar (Qutb ad-Din Haydar) (?-1221) a Persian Sufi saint and Malamati-Qalandari Sheikh

Turkmenistan - Local Judges Date: 1908

Turkmenistan - Travel by cart (note remarkable large wheels). Date: circa 1909

Turkmenistan - Delivery of some modern cot beds
The Modern World reaches everywhere (or at least the Soviet propaganda machine!)... A family in Turkmenistan receive some new metal-frame cot beds for their young children

Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen at market
Turkomen at a market near the site of Ancient Merv, formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia

Turkmenistan - Family group standing in front of their yurt tent. Date: circa 1910s

Turkmenistan - Local Mounted Police. Date: 1908

Home of the Kyrgyz people near Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Winter homes (yurts) of Kyrgyz people near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. There are still 250, 000 Kyrgyz living in Uzbekistan. Date: circa 1910s

Ancient volcanic bombs - near extinct mud volcano. Karaburum - near Kumdag - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Turkmen women and children in traditional clothes - in front of Saparmurat Hadji Mosque. near Ashgabad - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Turkmen girl - in traditional dress - boils water for tea on an outdoor stove - a bread-stove build of clay is behind. Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan

Turmen - a family sleeps outside on plank-beds - sunrise. Karahoudan village - in foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Ranger with binoculars - watching for Kopet Dag Arkal sheep. slopes of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. April - spring

A Nomadic family group from Turkmenistan - inside their yurt
A Nomadic family group from Turkmenistan - inside their fantastic yurt, seemingly piled high with blankets and trade goods. Date: circa 1905

Alme - Bauty from the Caucasus
" Alme" - a Russian beauty from one of the Southern Turcic States (Turkmenistan?). Date: 1904

Man of the Krgyz Republic (Former Kyrgyzstan) Date: circa 1910s

Turkman Mullah at Hazar, Turkemistan
A Turkman Mullah at Hazar, Turkemistan on the Caspian Sea. The Balkan Province of Celeken (Cheleken). Date: circa 1906

The Richest Kyrgyz man at Orenburg - a transcontinental city on the Ural River (the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast), Russia. Date: 1902

Kyrgyz Family outside their yurt - Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Family (a Turkic people living primarily in Kyrgyzstan) - outside their Yurt. Date: circa 1910s

Music cover for Two Circassian Polkas, piano pieces composed by Khue Lindoff. Two women of the northern Caucasus are depicted in traditional costume, one in red and white

Georgia - Rustic Country Wedding of the Turkic Karachaevtsy people

London County Club, Holland Park, London
Entrance Hall for the London County Club, Holland Park, London

Uyghur Children - close to Kashgar
Two young Uyghur Children, close to Kashgar in Xinjiang, South West China. Photograph taken by Ralph Ponsonby Watts, who travelled up from Kashmir to Kahgar

Turkic Man
A man from far Northern India or Southern China, displaying the highly Turkic facial morphology of the peoples of this region. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Kashgar Trip - Uyghur Woman - Headdress
Indigenous Uyghur woman of Kashgar with a remarkable headdress. A wonderful photographic portrait by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Kashgar Trip
Two siblings ride on a small pony, wrapped up against the cold. Both are from the Xinjiang province of China - close to Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Marketplace in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina with veiled Turkic women buying and selling clothing and textiles

Woman from Kashgar
A woman from Kashgar, in Xinjiang Province, China. She is likely a Uyghur woman, of Turkic ethnic extraction. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

TIMUR - 5
TIMUR LENK (variously spelt) Asiatic ruler: Turkic conqueror of most of Central Asia, depicted with a captive

TIMUR - 3
TIMUR LENK (variously spelt as Tamerlaine, Tamburlaine etc) Asiatic ruler: Turkic conqueror of most of Central Asia

TIMUR - 2
TIMUR LENK (variously spelt as Tamerlane, Tamburlaine etc) Asiatic ruler: Turkic conqueror of most of Central Asia

TIMUR - 1
TIMUR LENK (variously spelt as Tamerlane, Tamburlaine etc) Asiatic ruler: Turkic conqueror of most of Central Asia

Russian Tartars or Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group

TIMUR - 4
TIMUR LENK (variously spelt as Tamerlaine, Tamburlaine etc) Asiatic ruler: Turkic conqueror of most of Central Asia

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