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ORKHON INSCRIPTIONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORKHON See also:

INSCRIPTIONS , See also:ancient See also:Turkish inscriptions of the 8th See also:century A.D., discovered near the See also:river Orkhon to the See also:south of See also:Lake See also:Baikal in 1889. They are written in an See also:alphabet derived from an Aramaic source and recount the See also:history of the See also:northern See also:branch of the See also:Turks or Tu-kiue of See also:Chinese historians. See TURKS.

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