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 | VOLUME I: EARLY AGES |
| PART 1. GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT THE TURKISH HISTORY |
 | Studies on Turkish History / Prof. Dr. Yusuf Halaçoğlu [p.29-33] |
| The Genealogy of the Turks / Prof. Dr. Salim Koca [p.34-39] |
| Early Times of the Turks / Prof. Dr. Tuncer Baykara [p.40-62] |
| Geographical Terminology in Medieval Central Asia: Ma wara’al-nahr, Turkestan and Turan / Asst. Prof. Dr. Scott Levi [p.63-67] |
| Inner Eurasia and the Histories of Turkish Speaking Peoples / Assoc.Prof. Dr. David Christian [p.68-73] |
| The Migration and Expansion of the Turks / Prof. Dr. Salim Koca [p.74-86] |
| PART 2. THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA |
| The Ancient Cultures of Central Asia and the Relations with the Chinese Civilizations / Prof. Dr. Özkan İzgi [p.89-102] |
| A- The Ancient Cultures of Central Asia |
| The Earliest Prehistory of Central Asia: Lower, Middle and Upper Paleolithic / Prof. Dr. Leonid B. Vishnyatsky [p.103-108] |
| The Nomads of Saian-Altai (IX-VII. Centuries B.C.) / Prof. Dr. Leonid Marsadalov [p.109-114] |
| B- The Relations with the Chinese Civilizations |
| Monographs about Turkish and Related Tribes in Chinese Dynastic Histories / Dr. Sema Orsoy [p.115-131] |
| New Data Regarding the Physical Anthropology of the Kazakhs from Xinjiang with Correlations to Hungarian Populations / Dr. Gyula Henkey - Izabella Horvath [p.132-135] |
| New Archaelogical Discoveries in the Tian Shan Region of Xinjiang: A Search for Early Turkish Remains / Dr. Sergei V. Alkin [p.136-144] |
| PART 3. OLD NOMADS OF THE STEPPE: SCYTHIAN AGE IN EURASIA |
| Scythians / Prof. Dr. Abdulhaluk M. Çay - Assoc.Prof. Dr. İlhami Durmuş [p.147-166] |
| The Earliest Turks in the Middle East: Cimmerians and Scythians / Prof. Dr. M. Taner Tarhan [p.167-178] |
| Ancient Sources on Massagettes / Dr. Abdülhalık Aytbaev [p.179-183] |
| Sarmatians / Assoc.Prof. Dr. İlhami Durmuş [p.184-194] |
| PART 4. HUNS (XIONGNU) |
| A- Asian Huns (Xiongnu) |
| The Great Hun (Xiongnu) State / Prof. Dr. Salim Koca [p.197-216] |
| The Origin and Rise of the Xiongnu Empire / Asst. Prof. Dr. Nicola Di Cosmo [p.217-227] |
| Xiongnu Archaeological Relics West of Yenisei / Dr. Miklós Érdy [p.228-235] |
| The Division and Destruction of the Xiongnu Confederacy in the First and Second Centuries C.E. / Prof. Dr. R. Rafe C. de Crespigny [p.236-243] |
| Wu-Suns / Prof. Dr. Sergei A. Yatsenko [p.244-249] |
| B- Kushans, Akhuns and Hephthalites |
| Origin of the Kushans / Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tezcan [p.250-270] |
| The Kushan State and Its Ideology / Prof. Dr. Awadh K. Narain [p.271-276] |
| Turks in Ma wara’al-nahr and Khorasan during the Chionite/Hyon and Hephthalite Era / Prof. Dr. Dursun Ali Akbulut [p.277-289] |
| C- European Huns |
| European Huns / Prof. Dr. Şerif Baştav [p.290-305] |
| Three Archaeological Links between the Xiongnu and the Huns / Dr. Miklós Érdy [p.306-317] |
| PART 5. GÖKTÜRKS |
| A- The Göktürk Khaganate |
| Göktürks / Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl [p.321-347] |
| Some Components of the Civilization of the Turks (6th to 8th Century A.D.) / Prof. Dr. Denis Sinor [p.348-356] |
| Turkic Khaganate in Middle Asia (VI-VIII Centuries A.D.) / Dr. Larissa S. Baratova [p.357-363] |
| Western Turk Rule of Turkestan’s Oases in the Sixth through Eighth Centuries / Prof. Dr. Jonathan Karam Skaff [p.364-372] |
| B- The Neighbours of the Göktürks: The Sogdians |
| Introduction to the History of Sogdiana / Dr. Matteo Compareti [p.373-381] |
| Turks and Sogdians / Prof. Dr. Boris I. Marshak [p.382-389] |
| PART 6. THE UYGURS |
| The History and the Cultures of the Uygur States / Prof. Dr. Gülçin Çandarlıoğlu [p.393-413] |
| Uygurs / Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl [p.414-422] |
| The Uighur Empire (744-840) / Dr. Ablet Kamalov [p.423-430] |
| Uygurs under the Mongol Rule / Prof. Dr. Michael C. Brose [p.431-438] |
| PART 7. OGUZ, KYRGYZ, TURGISH, KARLUKS TATARS AND OTHER CENTRAL ASIAN TURKISH TRIBES |
| Turkish Tribes in Central Asia in the Pre-Islamic Period / Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl [p.441-462] |
| Oguz-Turkomans / Gazi Univeristy, Facult of Arts and Sciences/ Turkiye Asst. Prof. Dr. Tufan Gündüz [p.463-475] |
| The Seals of Turkish Clans Old Kirgiz-Oghuz Ethnic Connections / Prof. Dr. Oljobay Karataev [p.476-479] |
| The Yenisei Kyrgyz from Early Times to the Mongol Conquest / Prof. Dr. Michael R. Drompp [p.480-488] |
| PART 8. KHAZARS |
| The Khazar Empire / Asst. Prof. Dr. Muallâ Uydu Yücel [p.491-508] |
| Khazar-Byzantine Relations / Kevin Alan Brook [p.509-515] |
| On the Origin of the Khazar Diarchy and the Circumstances of Khazaria’s Conversion to Judaism / Prof. Dr. Constantine Zuckerman [p.516-523] |
| Khazars, Pechenegs and Hungarians in the Ninth Century / Dr. Bálint Zoltan Takács [p.524-532] |
| PART 9. TURKS IN EAST EUROPE |
| The Turko-Slavic Symbosis Turkic Nomads of Southeastern Europe / Prof. Dr. Omeljan Pritsak [p.535-547] |
| A- Turko-Slavic Relations |
| Historical Contacts between Alanic and Turkic Peoples in the West Eurasian Steppes / Dr. Agusti Alemany [p.548-552] |
| Ogur Connection in the Croatian and Serbian Migrations / Osman Karatay [p.553-561] |
| B- Bulgars |
| The Turks, Slavs and the Origin of the Bulgarians / Prof. Dr. Plamen S. Tzvetkov [p.562-568] |
| Bulgars and Ogurs / Prof. Dr. István Zimonyi [p.569-578] |
| The Danube Bulgar State (679-1018) / Ayşe Kayapınar [p.579-589] |
| C- Avars |
| The Avars: An Overwiev of Their Ethnogenesis and History / Prof. Dr. Emil Heršak [p.590-606] |
| Avar Settlements: A Challenge to Archaeological Research / Dr. Raimar W. Kory [p.607-616] |
| D- Pechenegs |
| Relics of the Pecheneg Language in the Works of Constantine / Dr. Gábor Vörös [p.617-631] |
| Pechenegs in the Balkans / Asst. Prof. Dr. Muallâ Uydu Yücel [p.632-642] |
| E- Kimeks-Kipchaks/Kumans |
| Kipchaks and Kumans / Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gökbel [p.643-659] |
| Notes on the Qipchaq Tribes: Kimeks and Yemeks / Prof. Dr. Peter B. Golden [p.660-670] |
| Kimeks / Prof. Dr. Bolat Kumekov [p.671-679] |
| Cumans in Bulgarian History (Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries) / Assoc.Prof. Dr. Valerie Stoyanov [p.680-689] |
| PART 10. STATE, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY AMONG ANCIENT TURKS |
| A- State |
| State Tradition and Organization among Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Salim Koca [p.693-713] |
| B- Society |
| Social and Economic Life among Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Salim Koca [p.714-731] |
| The New Year and Spring Festivals among the Turks / Prof. Dr. Ahmet Pirverdioğlu [p.732-739] |
| Burial Practices among Early Turks / Dr. Ciro Lo Muzio [p.740-745] |
| Towns and Settled Culture of Kazakhstan in VI-First Half of IX C. / Prof. Dr. Karl Baipakov [p.746-750] |
| C- Economy |
| The Currency in the Turkish Khanates from the Türgish to the Great Uygur (9th Century) / François Thierry [p.751-762] |
| The Silk Road and Its Importance in the History / Prof. Dr. Boris Ya. Stavisky [p.763-773] |
| PART 11. RELIGION AND SCIENCE AMONG ANCIENT TURKS |
| A- Religion |
| The Religion of Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Harun Güngör [p.777-797] |
| B- Science |
| Science among Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Esin Kahya [p.798-812] |
| Medicine in the Pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish World / Prof. Dr. Ali Haydar Bayat [p.813-823] |
| PART 12. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AMONG ANCIENT TURKS |
| Language and Literature among Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Sema Barutçu Özönder [p.827-846] |
| A- Language |
| Classification of Turkish Dialects / Dr. Ufuk Tavkul [p.847-854] |
| Pre-Ottoman Turkic Loans in Hungarian / Dr. Rishat Saifutdinov [p.855-860] |
| Language Problem of Avars and Two Words / Dr. Szatmari Sandor [p.861-868] |
| Alphabet and Identity of Turks / Hatice Şirin [p.869-880] |
| The Orkhun Inscriptions / Asst. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Alyılmaz [p.881-887] |
| B- Literature |
| New Reflections on the Epic of Oguz Kagan / Prof. Dr. Fuzuli Bayat [p.888-895] |
| Uighur Buddhist Literature / Prof. Dr. Geng Shimin [p.896-910] |
| The Book of Dede Korkut and Prehistory of the Turks / Prof. Dr. Süleyman Aliyarlı [p.911-916] |
| PART 13. CULTURE AND ARTS AMONG ANCIENT TURKS |
| Culture and Arts among Ancient Turks / Prof. Dr. Nejat Diyarbekirli [p.919-945] |
| A- Archaeological Culture and Arts |
| The Pazyryk Culture in Altai (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.) / Prof. Dr. Leonid Marsadolov [p.946-953] |
| New Turkish Sculptures of Mongolia and Altai / Prof. Dr. Vladimir D. Kubarev [p.954-961] |
| Stone Sculpture and Balbals among the Turks / Prof. Dr. Oktay Belli [p.962-966] |
| The Antiquity and Dynamics of Central Asian Shamanism and Rock Art / Dr. Andrzej Rozwadowski [p.967-973] |
| The Turkish Tradition of Building Kurgans in the Prehistoric and Middle Ages / Prof. Dr. Oktay Belli [p.974-978] |
| B- Culture and Arts |
| Scythian Culture / Assoc.Prof. Dr. İlhami Durmuş [p.979-988] |
| Kushana Art and Civilizations / Prof. Dr. Ramesh C. Sharma [p.989-994] |
| Art of the Göktürks / Asst. Prof. Dr. Yaşar Çoruhlu [p.995-1003] |
| Art of Ancient Turks / Asst. Prof. Dr. Seyfi Başkan [p.1004-1010] |
| The Robe of Ancient Turks of Central Asia according to Materials of Art / Dr. Gleb V. Kubarev [p.1011-1015] |
PART 2. THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA
