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Post by aca on Sept 23, 2006 18:19:40 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 23, 2006 19:57:59 GMT 3
Looks like a very interesting article. I made a small research about the author of the article, Dr. Mehmet Tezcan. He is a young academician in the History Department of the Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi (Black Sea Technical University) in Trabzon. If he was near my city, I would have visited him  |
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Post by aca on Sept 24, 2006 14:13:41 GMT 3
Well, I think that his theory makes sence (from a certain point of view). As you maybe know there are many archeological evidence about Avars in Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Romania and even Austria. One very emminent and expirienced Serbian historian and archeologyst (I forgot his name, but will add it to this post later) wrote a book called "Avar khaganate" in which we can see numerous objects unearthed from almost all known Avar tombs. Anyway, he suggests that these objects (mainly "jugs" like those found in Bilge-kagans memorial complex) by their style and characteristics look like those of Khurasan. So, I was wery surprised when I saw Dr. Tezcan's article, which, though indirectly, is confirming this theory. On the other hand, it is a very well known fact that the Slavic peoples used to call Avars by the name Obar, which obiously looks like the ethnonym Apar. Is this Dr. Tezcan's theory (if corect) just another proof that Avars did come to Europe from southwestern Turkistan? Or, can it be that the similarity between ethnonyms Avar, and Apar is just a pure coincidency? |
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Post by aca on Sept 27, 2006 15:49:35 GMT 3
Book: "AVARSKI KAGANAT" Author: Jovan Kovačević Publisher: Srpska književna zadruga Published in 1977 Of course, the book is in Serbian language, but it was probably translated to English  |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 27, 2006 16:37:38 GMT 3
Thank you for the info, Aca Shad |
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