Teke or Tekke can refer to:

People

Teke (tribe) Teke is a major and politically influential tribe of Turkmens in Turkmenistan. History The Oghuz forebears of the Teke migrated to Transoxiana in the 8th century. The tribe is called the Turka by explorer Alexander Burnes in his 1834 book ...

, a tribe of southern Turkmenistan *

Teke people The Teke people or Bateke, also known as the Tyo or Tio, are a Bantu Central African ethnic group that speak the Teke languages and that mainly inhabit the south, north, and center of the Republic of the Congo, the west of the Democratic Repub ...

or Bateke, a Central African ethnic group *

Fatih Tekke Fatih Tekke (born 9 September 1977), known by his ''given nickname'' Sultan, is a Turkish football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Trabzonspor. He started his professional career at Trabzonspor and later played for Alt ...

(born 1977), Turkish footballer *

Kent Tekulve Kenton Charles Tekulve ( ; born March 5, 1947), nicknamed "Teke", is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also played f ...

(born 1947), American baseball player

Places

Tekke of Frashër The Tekke of Frashër () or Nasibî Tâhir Baba Tekke is a Bektashi shrine and Albanian Bektashi tekke founded in 1781 and registered Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Frashër, Gjirokastër County in southern Albania. The tekke was cruc ...

, a Bektashi shrine and Cultural Monument of Albania in Gjirokastër County *

Tekke of Martanesh The Tekke of Martanesh () or Peshku Teqe ''(Teqeja e Peshkut)'' is a Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Martanesh, Dibër County Dibër County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with th ...

, a Cultural Monument of Albania in Dibër County *

Tekke of Melan The Tekke of Melan () is a khanqah () and a famous pilgrimage site of the Bektashi Order of Sufism. It was built in 1800 in Libohovë, near Gjirokastër in southern Albania. The site lies on a hill overlooking the Dropull plain south of Gjirokas ...

, a ''khanqah'' in Libohovë, Albania *

Teke (lake) Teke (; ) is a bittern salt lake in Ualikhanov District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. The lake lies to the north of the northern end of larger Siletiteniz lake. to the west lies lake Ulken-Karoy. There are periodic deposits of salt o ...

, Kazakhstan *

Teke, Lesotho Teke is a community council located in the Mohale's Hoek District of Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the ...

* Tekke, Kazan, Ankara Province, Turkey *

Tekke, Sarayköy Tekke (also: ''Tekkeköy'') is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sarayköy, Denizli Province Denizli Province () () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in Western Anatolia, on high ground above the Aegean c ...

, Denizli Province, Turkey *

Teke Peninsula Teke Peninsula (), also known as Teke Region (), is a peninsula located in southwestern Turkey between the gulfs of Antalya and Fethiye extending into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered to the Turkish Lakes Region in the north. It was known ...

, in Antalya Province, Turkey *

Beylik of Teke The Anatolian beylik of Teke (, 1321–1423), with its capital at Antalya, was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. History The Teke dynasty started with a s ...

, a frontier principality established by Oghuz Turkish clans * Mount Teke, the highest peak in

İskilip İskilip is a list of districts in Turkey, district of Çorum Province, Turkey, on the left bank of the River Kızılırmak River, Kızılırmak, located at 56 km from the city of Çorum, 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Ankara and 60 miles (100 km) ...

, Turkey *

Teaca Teaca (,Tekendorf in Nordsiebenbürgen : Ortsmonographie; Ilse Schliessleder-Fronius, 1989 ) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Archiud (''Arkeden bei Bistriz'', ''Mezőerked''), Budurl ...

(), a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania * Tekke, a neighborhood of Görmeli, Turkey *

Takya A Sufi lodge is a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood or ''tariqa'' and is a place for spiritual practice and religious education. They include structures also known as ''khānaqāh'', ''zāwiya'', ''ribāṭ'' ...

(or ''Tekke'' in Turkish), which may refer to the gathering place of a Sufi brotherhood, or the shrine of a Sufi saint *

Takyeh In Iran, the word takyeh () is mostly used as a synonym of husayniyya (or ''hoseyniyeh'' in Iranian Persian; building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram), although some takyehs also include ...

, a place where Iranian Shiites gather for mourning of Muharram

Religion

(or ''Tekke'' in Turkish), which may refer to the gathering place of a Sufi brotherhood, or the shrine of a Sufi saint *

, a place where Iranian Shiites gather for mourning of Muharram

Other uses

Teke languages The Teke languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people in the western Congo and in Gabon. They are coded Zone B.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the Teke languages apart from West Te ...

, a series of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people *

Teke Teke , also spelled ''Teke-Teke'', ''Teketeke'', or ''Teke teke'', is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a schoolgirl, where her body was split in half by a train after she had become stuck. She is an ''onryō'', or a vengeful spirit, who lur ...

, a Japanese urban legend *

Akhal-Teke The Akhal-Teke ( or ; from Turkmen language, Turkmen ''Ahalteke'', ) is a Turkmen horse breed. They have a reputation for speed and endurance, intelligence, thin manes and a distinctive metallic sheen. The shiny coat of the breed led to their ...

, a horse breed associated with the tribe *

Tau Kappa Epsilon Tau Kappa Epsilon (), commonly known as or Teke, is a social college fraternities and sororities, fraternity founded on January 10, 1899, at Illinois Wesleyan University. The organization has chapters throughout the United States and Canada, maki ...

fraternity, one of its members, or its quarterly publication ''THE TEKE'' *

Telekinesis Telekinesis () (alternatively called psychokinesis) is a purported psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Experiments to prove the existence of telekinesis have historically been cri ...

, as in George R.R. Martin's novella ''Nightflyers'' *

Central Special Branch The Central Special Branch (), often shortened to ''Teke''; sometimes written Special Services Section (SSS), was the Intelligence agency, intelligence and counter-intelligence agency of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Cent ...

, a defunct Chinese intelligence agency

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