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For the ideology of uniting Ural Altaic peoples, see Turanism.Tūrān is the ancient Iranian name for Central Asia, literally meaning "the land of the Tur". As described below, the original Turanians are the Tuirya Iranian people of the Avesta age. According to Shahnameh's account, at least 1500 years later after the Avesta, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands, were ruled by Tūr who was the emperor Fereydun's elder son. In modern discourse, now obsolete, it was primarily an ideological term designating TurkicMongolicDravidian languages and Ugric languages and people more or less indiscriminately, implying a common ancestry and common culture of the various ethnicities in question (see Turanian). The association with Turkic cultures is also primarily based on the Shahnameh's account. Tur/Turaj(Tuzh in Middle Persian) is the son of emperor Fereydun and is the ancestors.
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Pál Turán
Paul (Pál) Turán (August 28 1910September 26 1976) was a mathematician who made contributions in number theorygroup theory and approximation theory. He proved one of the first major results in extremal graph theory. He wrote several papers with Paul Erdős.Turán was sent to labour camps at various times from 1940 to 1944. He is said to have been recognized and perhaps protected by a fascist guard, who, as a mathematics student, had admired Turán's work. He was married twice and had 3 sons.
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[Etruscan] The Etruscan goddess of love, health, and fertility, and the patroness of the city Vulci (in the current Italian province Viterbo). Turan is usually portrayed as a young woman with wings on her back. The pigeon and black swan are her symbolic animals and she is accompanied by the Lasas. Her Roman equivalent is Venus.

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