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| Kasgarli Mahmut was 11th century scholar from Kashgar. He explained the word TARKHAN in the following way:
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| "It is a name given before the Islamic religion. It means prince (Bey, Umar) in Arghu language"
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| It is clear the word Tarkhan was not pure Turkish and that it was adopted into Turkish from the old language of Sogdiana. This was proved in the Turkish dictionary Divan u Lugat it-Turk written by Kasgarli Mahmut. Sogd was a name of a nation who settled in Balasagun. These were of the Sogd race. Sogd lay between Bukhara and Samarqand. Sogdia (/ˈsɒɡdiə/) or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization.
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| Historian H. Beveridge in his paper titled Tarkhan and Tarquinius points out that real etymology of Tarkhan is lost.
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| Beveridge, Isaac Taylor, C. R. Condor and J. G. R. Farlong in their writings all agree that Tarkhan, Tarkan and Tarquin are same. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, or Tarquin the Elder, was the legendary fifth king of Rome from 616 to 579 BC.
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| Tarkhan was used among the Hittites (1700BCE- 1200BCE) to refer the tribal Chiefs. Also the the Kassites (1531BCE-1155 BCE) had god called Tartakhan.
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| In Era's of Humanity by Genealogy, Brian Starr writes about Kama Tarkhan of Huns.
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| Hiuen Tsang, a Chinese traveller of 7th century AD also mentions various Tarkhans in Indian subcontinent such as Tarkhan of Samarkand, a meeting between king and 200 Tarkhans.
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| S. Kuwayama makes the mention of Chebishi Tarkhan who along with Tafu Tegin was sent to court of Tang Dynasty by King of Gandhara in 753 AD.
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| Tarkhan Dynasty ruled over Gilgit in 7th and 8th century and was founded by a prince from Badakhshan. Further, founders of Maglot dynasty of Nagar and Ayash dynasty of Hunza were both Tarkhan princes.
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| Khodadad Rezakhani of Freie Universität (Berlin) in the paper titled Continuity and Change in Late Antique Irān: An Economic View of the Sasanians writes:
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| "These are the famous Nezak Tarkhans who claimed descent from the Alkhon king Khingila (Grenet 2002: 218). We know that these Tarkhans controlled the passes across the Hindukush both to Bamiyan and also to Kabul, via the Panjshir Valley (Baker and Allchin 1991)."
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| The town named Tarkhan in Egypt has been a site of various archeological diggings, some which were as old as 4000 BCE and oldest woven piece of cloth called Tarkhan Dress.
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| In the town of Chal Tarkhan (Iran) many artifacts were found belonging to Sassanian Period (224 to 651 AD).
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| Tarkhankut is name of peninsula in Ukraine and there are various places named Tarkhan in Russia.
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| In modern times, most of Tarkhans of North India follow Sikhism and speak Punjabi, a Indo-European language.--[[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] ([[User talk:Tarquin|talk]]) 17:21, 2 October 2019 (MDT)
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Sat Shri Akal Ji
I've updated the article with some new information about Tarkhan History and now references and citations are present for all information written.
Can you please update it with new article?
Changes have been made
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh
Khalsa Ji,
The changes suggested on your user page have been made to the section "Ancient History"
Hari Singhtalk 05:25, 14 February 2020 (MST)
