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Orkhon

Orkhon may refer to:

  • Orkhon River, Mongolia
  • Orkhon Valley, the landscape around that river
  • Orkhon Province, an Aimag (province) in Mongolia
  • several Sums (districts) in different Mongolian Aimags:
    • Orkhon, Bulgan
    • Orkhon, Selenge
  • Orkhon script, a historic script of Turkic origin
  • Orkhon inscriptions, inscriptions of Bilge Kagan, Kül Tiğin, and Tonyukuk in Unicode

Usage examples of "orkhon".

Koja, peering over their shoulders, could see that Chagadai pointed to the same general area of the map as the Orkhon Oasis.

Four women sat at the left of the Orkhon, each of them young and slim and, I suppose, beautiful in the eyes of the Mongols.

But the name that the Chinese gave for the Orkhon, Hulagu, I did not recognize.

In the days that followed the army passed through the valley of the Orkhon river, an immense walled plain bounded to the east by blue mountains.

Finno-Ougrienne at Helsingfors, containing inscriptions from the valley of the Orkhon, brought home by the Finnish Expedition in 1890.

Hulagu, Subotai, Kubilai and the other Orkhons and princes along the periphery of the Mongol conquests still press onward.

When the High Khan dies, all the Orkhons and generals return to Karakorum to elect a new High Khan.

High Khan dies and all the Orkhons and generals must return to Karakorum to elect a new High Khan.