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Çoban (other)
Çoban or Choban is a Turkish name and surname of Persian origin meaning "shepherd". It may refer to: * Chupan or Çoban (died 1327), Mongol emir in Persia * Ayşegül Çoban (born 1992), Turkish female weightlifter * Hüsamettin Çoban (13th century), commander of the Anatolian Seljuks * Kenan Çoban (born 1975), Turkish actor * Mehmet Çoban (1905–1969), Turkish Olympian wrestler * Bekir Çoban-zade (1893–1937), Crimean Tatar poet * Çoban Mustafa Pasha (died 1529), Ottoman statesman and governor of Egypt * The Greek island of Kasos See also * Çoban salatası, Turkish salad * Cioban * Ciobanu Ciobanu is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The commune includes two villages: * Ciobanu (historical name: tr, Çoban-Kuyusu) * Miorița (historical names: ''Cadi-Câșla'', ''Bălăceanu'' until 1964) Demographics At ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Coban Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
