OLD TURKIC POLITICAL TERMS USED IN THE ALTÏN ORDA KHAN’S EDICT

Abstract

Altïn Orda, also known as the Golden Horde or Jochi Ulus, was a regime founded by Chingis Khan’s oldest son, Jochi, and then established by his son, Batu, in the early and middle of the 13th century. Although the Altïn Orda was of Mongol origins, the state had been rapidly assimilated by the local Turkic-speaking people. Therefore, the political terminology of the Altïn Orda has been heavily affected by the Turkic culture. For the extant written materials during the age of Altïn Orda arenot so many, the surviving manuscripts and monuments are essential to nowadays history and linguistics studies. In this article, the author takes Tokhtamish’s yarlig (edict) as an example and tries to semantically analyze the political terms which derivefrom the Old Turkic era to outline and understand the inherited relations between Old Turkic Khaganate and Altïn Orda in terms of political culture.