Great Kurultáj

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The Great Kurultáj or briefly Kurultáj is a traditional event of peoples of

The original Kurultáj were held by nomadic people of the Steppes, especially for various chieftains to gather to elect the successor to a recently deceased Khan.

South Korea participates in the Kurultáj.^[3]

Editions

^[4][5]

• 2007 in Kazakhstan

By Hungarian Turan Foundation:

1. 2008
2. 2013
3. 2014
4. 2015
5. 2016
6. 2018
7. 2020 - cancelled.
8. 2022 - 12-14 August - 27 nations. participating nations and tribes: Azerbaijani, Avar, Bashkir, Bulgarian, Balkar, Buryat, Chuvash, Gagauz, Kabardino, Karachay, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Madjar tribe of Kazakhstan, Kirghiz, Kumi, Mongolian, Nogai, Uzbek, Madzsar tribe of Uzbekistan, Tatar, Turkish, Tuva, Turkoman, Uyghur, Yakut, Hungarian.

Participating nations and states (47)

13 nations and 33 states from:

1. Turkic people
2. Uralic people
3. Mongolic people
4. Tungusic people
5. Caucasian people

Nations:

1. Asia (6):  Kazakhstan,  Uzbekistan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Turkmenistan,  South Korea,  Mongolia
2. Europe (7):  Azerbaijan,  Turkey,  Hungary,  Estonia,  Finland,  Bulgaria,  Greece

2022

Participating nations and tribes is 27:

Azerbaijani, Avar, Bashkir, Bulgarian, Balkar, Buryat, Chuvash, Gagauz, Kabardino, Karachay, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Madjar tribe of Kazakhstan, Kirghiz, Kumi, Mongolian, Nogai, Uzbek, Madzsar tribe of Uzebekistan, Tatar, Turkish, Tuva, Turkoman, Uyghur, Yakut, Hungarian.^[4]

9 Country + 18 state

Name

The word ”kurultáj” and its variations in the Turkic languages translates as “meeting of the tribes”. It occurs amongst tribal nations and practically in all the nomadic cultures. Hungarian nomadic tribes also held these meetings, a fact that is mentioned in Byzantine and Arab written sources. At such meetings, important decisions were made, in particular, the leaders of the tribes would meet often to discuss military decisions and strategies.^[6]

Events

• 2008: unknown
• 2013: 9 to 11 August.^[7]
• 2014: Took place at Bugac in the Southern Great Plain region in Hungary.^[8]
• 2015: Organized by the Hungarian Turan Foundation with contributions from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) and named the year's event Ancestors Day. Representatives from the governments of Hungary and Turkey joined the festivities as well.^[9]
• 2016: Took place from 12 to 14 August at Bugac.^[10]
• 2018: unknown
• 2020: cancelled ^{[citation needed]}
• 2022: culture + music + sports (horse + archery + Guresh)^[11]

Medalists:^[12]

Gallery

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  Hun Empire
• 
  Flags of Turan nations
• 
  Flag of Székely Land
• 
  Hungarian horseman at Kurultáj
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  Hungarian horsemen at Kurultáj
• 
  Traditional Kazakh game of Kokpar, fighting over a goat carcass at the Kazakh Altai Eagle Festival in Sagsai, Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia.
• 
  Hungarian horsemen at Great Kurultáj 2014, the

  Hun-Turkic tribal assembly, Bugac

  .

• Altaic language
• Huns
• Kurultai
• Hungarian Turanism
• Pan-Turanism
• Pan Turkism
• World Turks Qurultai
• Treaty of Trianon
• Bugac
• Jirga
• List of festivals in Europe

References

External links

• Media related to Kurultáj (Bugac) at Wikimedia Commons
• Bugac // Puszta . com
• Information