Genghis Khan - Cengiz Han

ATATÜRK & TURKISH INDEPENDENCE WAR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_MHVgHPZA Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227), born Temujin and also known by the temple name Taizu, was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. Genghis Khan is credited with bringing the Silk Road under one cohesive political environment. This allowed increased communication and trade between the West, Middle East and Asia, thus expanding the horizons of all three cultural areas. Some historians have noted that Genghis Khan instituted certain levels of meritocracy in his rule, was tolerant of different religions and explained his policies clearly to all his soldiers. In Turkey, Genghis Khan is looked on as a great military leader, and it is popular for male children to carry his title as name. http://www.symphonyturk.com/?php=dombra PS: Turks and Mongols are distant relatives. Turkish, Finnish and Hungarian have a common point that all three languages are somehow connected to Ural-Altaic family and they are all Agglutinative languages. The modern Mongolian language is also classified as agglutinative (like Korean and Japanese) Apart from that, Turkish roots reaches to Huns and in fact, some of the historians already clarified the similarities between these nations by living styles, common words, similar sarcophaguses and the prehistoric alpabeth used by them. Chinese archive is another source should be well-investigated.