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Turan

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Meaning

  1. The Etruscan goddess of love, fertility, and vitality.
  2. A nomadic people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
  3. A surname from Turkish.
  4. A region of Central Asia, originally populated by Iranian Central Asian nomads; later, Iranians came to identify Turkic neighbours as Turanians.

Etymology / origin

From Classical Persian توران (tūrān), originally meaning "the Land of Tur".

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