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Horon ( pnt, χορόν, khorón) is a traditional folk dance from Pontus or Eastern Black Sea Region in
Horon ( pnt, χορόν, khorón) is a traditional folk dance from Pontus or Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
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Name
Etymology
The term ''horon'' derives from Greek ''choros Choros may refer to:
* Choros (Oirats), a Mongolic people and historical clan
* Chôros, a series of compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos
* Choros (dance), Greek dances
* Choros (Greek drama), an ancient Greek group of performers
* Choros District, ...
'' ( el, χορός, khorós), which means "dance." The earliest instance of its usage in a Turkic language is in Codex Cumanicus from 1303.
Variants
In Ordu andGiresun
Giresun (), formerly Cerasus (Ancient Greek: Κερασοῦς, Greek: Κερασούντα), is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.
Etymology
Giresun wa ...
, the term ''horan'' is used instead of ''horon''.
See also
*Khigga
Khigga is a style of Assyrian folk dance in which multiple dancers hold each other's hands and form a semi-circle or a curved line. There are multiple foot patterns that dancers perform. Its thought to have been danced for thousands of years. It i ...
* Dabke
* Tamzara
References
{{Turkish dances Greek dances Turkish folk dances Circle dances Pontic Greek dances