Anybody have any theories on why the Iranian plateau didn’t become as thoroughly Turkish-speaking as Anatolia did? Same conditions of Turkic dynasties ruling over non-Turkic populations (according to these maps the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum must have continued to be largely Greek-speaking). If anything Iran is even closer to an already Turkified Transoxania…
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Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal
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