Oghuz Khagan

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Oghuz Khagan or Oğuz Khan (Turkish: Oğuz Kağan or Oğuz Han; Azerbaijani: Oğuz Xan or Oğuz Xaqan; Turkmen: Oguz Han) is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of the Oghuz Turks. Some Turkic cultures use the legend of Oghuz Khan to describe their ethnic and tribal origins. The various versions of the narrative preserved in many different manuscripts have been published in numerous languages, as listed in the references below. The narratives about him are often entitled Oghuzname, of which there are several traditions describing his many feats and conquests; some of these tend to overlap with other Turkic epic traditions, such as the Seljukname and The Book of Dede Korkut. Oğuz Khan was from the Balga tribe, the son of Qara Bey (Oğuz Bey), and later became a khan. The name of Oghuz Khan has been associated with Modu Chanyu, a Xiongnu leader. The reason for this is that there are similarities between the biography of Oghuz Khagan in Turkic mythology and the biography...

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