The State-Political Titulatura Of Nomadic States Of The Great Steppe: Historical And Comparative Analysis (IV-X Centuries)

Abstract

The Turks managed to create a huge empire. Its territory expanded from the Altai Mountains in the East to the Black Sea in the West, from the headwaters of the Yenisei River in the North to the headwaters of the Amudarya River in the South. At the beginning of the 6th century, the territory of Kazakhstan was under the rule of the Turkic Kaganate. The Turkic Kaganate is the first state on the territory of modern Kazakhstan. Its foundation was the union of the Turkic-speaking tribes, which was headed by the Kagan. The state, based on ancestral traditions, was based on military-administrative administration. It was part of a system of relations with such major states of the time as Iran and Byzantium. China was a tributary of the Kaganate. Titulature in many cultures played the role of an important indicator of the international prestige of the state. As you know, only members of the Ashina clan had the sacred right to supreme power in the Turkic Kaganate. The possession of one title or another, the occupation of one place or another in the political and state structure of society depended on many circumstances, the main of which was belonging to one or another tribe in a union of tribes, kindred tribe, etc. Social determinants (titles, ranks, positions), as the most significant components of ancient Turkic anthroponomy, contained complete information about the social status of the carrier of a given name, its origin and belonging to a certain stratum of society, information about its place within the political and administrative structures of society. The political and military organization of the Turkic society in many ways continued the traditions of the previous state formations of the Huns. In linguistic terms, most of them are borrowings mainly from Sogdian, Chinese and Tibetan languages.