Haji Bektash
Haji Bektash Veli or Wali ( fa, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; ota, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli; sq, Haxhi Bektash Veliu) (1209 – 1271) was a Muslim mystic, saint, Sayyid and philosopher from Kh ...
was a 13th-century Muslim preacher.
Bektash or Bektaş may also refer to:
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Bektash of Kakheti (died 1615), Safavid military leader
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Bektash Khan
Haji Bektash Veli or Wali ( fa, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; ota, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli; sq, Haxhi Bektash Veliu) (1209 – 1271) was a Muslim mystic, saint, Sayyid and philosopher from Kh ...
(died 1639), Safavid governor
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Haji Bektash Veli
Haji Bektash Veli or Wali ( fa, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Ḥājī Baktāš Walī; ota, حاجی بکتاش ولی, Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli; sq, Haxhi Bektash Veliu) (1209 – 1271) was a Muslim mystic, saint, Sayyid and philosopher from Kh ...
, founder of the Bektashi order
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Bektaş Demirel
Bektaş Demirel (born February 8, 1976 as Visita Asanov in the Soviet Union) is a Turkish judoka. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώ ...
(born 1976), Turkish judoka
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Barış Bektaş (born 1976), Turkish politician
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Cansu Bektaş (born 2003), Turkish female weightlifter
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Emina Bektas
Emina Bektas (born March 30, 1993) is an American tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 188 in singles, reached on 7 March 2022, and 78 in doubles, achieved on 11 July 2022. Bektas has won five singles and 21 doubles titles on the ...
(born 1993), American tennis player
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Habib Bektaş (born 1951), Turkish-German writer
Places
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Bektash Abad, village in Iran
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Bektaş, Ayvacık, a village in western Turkey
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Bektaş, Giresun
Bektaş () is a highland and settlement in Giresun Province of Turkey.
__NOTOC__ Etymology
''Bektaş'' may be a Turkish compound word of ''bek'', "strong", and ''taş'' "stone", which refers to the big stones and rocky places on the plateau. Howev ...
, a highland (yayla) in Giresun Province, Turkey
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Bektaş, Vezirköprü, a village in northern Turkey
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Bektashi Order
The Bektashi Order; sq, Tarikati Bektashi; tr, Bektaşi or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic movement originating in the 13th-century. It is named after the Anatolian saint Haji Bektash Wali (d. 1271). The community is currently led by ...
, an Islamic Sufi mystic order originating in the 13th-century
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