The book titled “Altai Communities: Place and Water Names” has been published by the Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB).
The volume consists of papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Altai Communities, hosted by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and supported by TDBB among other institutions. It features 73 papers by around 180 Altai studies scholars from Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Russian Federation, Japan, India, and Europe.
This comprehensive book, totaling 860 pages, was edited by İlhan Şahin, Fahri Solak, Naciye Ata Yıldız, Feridun M. Emecen, Üçler Bulduk, Saadettin Yağmur Gömeç, Muhammed Bilal Çelik, Aymira Taşbaş, Erhan Taşbaş, and Nergis Biray.
The articles in the book are presented in the languages used by the authors in their presentations – Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Russian, and English. To enable a wider readership, each paper is also accompanied by an English summary.
Among the topics covered in the book are: Iranian Place Names in Southern Siberia as Evidence of Scythian Presence; Place Names of the Huns According to Chinese Sources; Place and Water Names in Turkish Tribes Linked to Beliefs, Colors, and Numbers; Place and Water Names in Turkish Mythology and Art; The Place of Lake Kök in Chinggisid History; An Onomastic Study of District and Neighborhood Names in Hatay; The Traces of Korkut Ata Along the Syr Darya; Epic Landscape Çenlibel in the Köroğlu-Goroğlu Epics; Examples from Ottoman Place Names in the Conquered Regions of Hungary; Similar Place and Plant Names in Turkey and Kazakhstan: The Case of Konya and Shymkent; Evaluations on Place Names Derived from Organ Names (Turkey and Kazakhstan Place Names); Sources of Ottoman Place Names; The Establishment and Naming of Permanent Migrant Settlements in Ottoman Anatolia; Place-Name Policy of the Committee of Union and Progress; Animals in Kazakh Place and Water Names; Significant Place and Water Names Between Malatya and Adıyaman; Notes on Some Place Names in Mongolian Runic Inscriptions; The Vocabulary of Place and Water Names in Altai Epics and Their Reflection in Anatolia; Water Names in Kangal and Event-Based Land Naming; The Name and Historical Role of the City of Balkh; Place Names in Timurid Sources; Place Names in Turkmenistan and Merv; The Distribution of the Term Kyrgyz as a Place Name Across Eurasia; and Water Culture in Uzbek Folklore.
For the full-text PDF of the book, see:
https://www.tdbb.org.tr/tdbb/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Altay-Topluluklari-Yer-ve-Su-Adlari-1.pdf
