Philip Rance

The Title τούδουνος / tudun and the Göktürks – An Unrecognised Fragment of Menander Protector’s Histories (Lexicon Αἱμωδεῖν τ 11)

This study of Turkic and East Roman/Byzantine linguistic exchange seeks to connect Turkological scholarship with research in medieval Greek lexicography. While older studies recognised τουδοῦνος/τούδουνος in eighth-/ninth-century historical sources as a Greek rendering of the Turkic title tudun , specifically among...