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.
