Orkhon () may refer to:
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Orkhon River
The Orkhon River ( ) is the longest river in Mongolia.
It rises in the Khangai Mountains in the Tsenkher, Tsenkher sum of Arkhangai Province, Arkhangai Provinces of Mongolia, aimag at the foot of the Suvraga Khairkhan mountain.
From there, it ...
, Mongolia
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Orkhon Valley
The Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 320 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. It was inscribed by UNESCO in the World Heritage List as representing the development of ...
, the landscape around that river
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Orkhon Province
Orkhon Province () is one of the 21 provinces of Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, ma ...
, an Aimag (province) in Mongolia
* several Sums (districts) in different Mongolian Aimags:
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Orkhon, Bulgan
Orkhon () is a sum (district) of Bulgan Province in northern Mongolia. The former Soviet Army military base area (10 km long from west to east, 2.5 km from north to south) is 6 km southwest of the sum center. In 2009, its populatio ...
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Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul
Orkhon () is a sum (district) of Darkhan-Uul Province in northern Mongolia. In 2009, its population was 3,185., being the northernmost city in the Darkhan-Uul Province.
Population
At the 2009 population census, Orkhon was the least populated c ...
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Orkhon, Selenge
Orkhon () is a sum (district) of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia. In 2008, its population was 2,165.
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Orkhon script
The Old Turkic script (also known variously as Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turki ...
, a historic script of Turkic origin
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Orkhon inscriptions
The Orkhon inscriptions are bilingual texts in Middle Chinese and Old Turkic, the latter written in the Old Turkic alphabet, carved into two memorial steles erected in the early 8th century by the Göktürks in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern- ...
, inscriptions of Bilge Kagan, Kül Tiğin, and Tonyukuk in Unicode
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Orhun (name) Orhun is a Turkish masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Orhun Ene (born 1967), Turkish basketball player
Surname
* Deniz Orhun (born 1974), Turkish chef, media personality and businesswoman
Se ...
, list of people named the Turkish version of Orkhon
*Orkhoe, the Greek word for
Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. The site lies 93 kilo ...
, a prominent Sumerian city-state
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