Qara bodun, the Glossary
Qara bodun (qara bodun) was a name given to the common people of Turkic khaganates.[1]
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Bey
Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg or Beg, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and an honorific title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe.
Commoner
A commoner, also known as the common man, commoners, the common people or the masses, was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy.
Khanate
A khanate or khaganate is a type of historic polity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum.
Rayah
A raiyah or reaya (from raʿāyā, a plural of رعيّة raʿiya "countryman, animal, sheep pasturing, subjects, nationals, flock", also spelled raiya, raja, raiah, re'aya; Ottoman Turkish رعايا; Modern Turkish râiya or reaya; related to the Arabic word rā'ī راعي which means "shepherd, herdsman, patron") was a member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society, in contrast to the askeri and kul.
See also
Göktürks
- Asena
- Bust of Kul Tigin
- Eastern Turkic Khaganate
- Empress Xiao (Sui dynasty)
- Ergenekon
- First Turkic Khaganate
- Göktürk family tree
- Göktürks
- Golden Crown of Bilge Khan
- Grey wolf (mythology)
- Kashgar
- Kul-chur inscription
- Liang Shidu
- Old Turkic
- Old Turkic script
- Orkhon Turkic
- Orkhon Valley
- Otuken
- Princess Yicheng
- Qara bodun
- Second Turkic Khaganate
- Shoroon Bumbagar tomb
- Silver Deer of Bilge Khan
- Tang dynasty in Inner Asia
- Timeline of the Göktürks
- Transition from Sui to Tang
- Wen Yanbo (Tang dynasty)
- Western Turkic Khaganate
- Xueyantuo