Great Turan State

Great Turan State Uluğ Tūrân Ulus ﻭﻠﻮﻎ توران ألس
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Batyr
Official languages	Common Turkic English
Demonym(s)	Turanian
Government	Caliphal elective monarchy
• Khagan of Turan	Daniyal
• Sadr-ı Azam	Hasan Çakar
Currency	Altyn (ALY)

Turan (Common Turkic: توران , Tūrân, Hasani: Turan Yüje Devleti), officially the Great Turan State (Common Turkic: ﻭﻠﻮﻎ توران ألس, Uluğ Tūrân Ulus) and commonly known domestically as the Uluğ Ulus, is a self-declared and self-administered entity claiming sovereignty under international law and ceremonial possession of various territorial claims located in Europe and Asia. Turan has been described as a micronation or an alternative government by external observers due to its lack of international recognition and the minimal control over the regions it holds territorial claims upon.

Turan's initial iteration was established as the Sublime State of Gurkaniye on 10 March 2022, following the re-organisation of the Sublime State of Hasanistan into the entity. It was renamed to the Sublime State of Turan on 4 June 2022 and later reformed into its current form on 10 March 2023.

Turan considers itself a continuation of both the Mongol Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire and, to a lesser extent, the Ottoman Empire, as well as claiming heritage from other Turkic dynasties. The state's primary purpose is preserving and continuing both the Turkic and Eastern Roman imperial traditions, resulting in many aspects of the socio-political discourse of Turan being influenced by them. It has been described as a culturally "Turco-Roman" entity.

Islam is the predominant religion of its citizenry and the state religion, having proclaimed itself as a caliphate with Sharia as its legal system. The state promotes Hanafism as the predominant school of jurisprudence (fiqh) and Maturidism as the predominant school of theology (aqidah), while the Naqshbandi order is the state and royal Sufi path.

Etymology

The toponym Turan is Iranic in origin, believed to derive from the word târ (tura) meaning dark and applied as a derogative term against nomadic groups who lived north of the Iranian plateau and beyond the Oxus river. A tribe or nation called the Turanians are referenced in the Zoroastrian Avesta and are described as a neighbouring and rival group to the Aryans. During the early rise of Islam, Muslim Arab scholars and historians identified Turan as the domains of the Turkic people.

The Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur used the title Sultan of Turan and used Turan as the official name of his state, most notably evidenced in the Karsakpay inscription which had been carved on the orders of Timur (which includes the following sentence: "Sultan of Turan Timur-Bey went up with three hundred thousand troops for Islam on the Bulgarian Khan Toktamysh Khan").

The toponym gained contemporary relevance in the 19th century, as Western linguists, anthropologists and Orientalists applied the name for theories about a common Ural-Altaic language and Ural-Altaic race. After these Western academic ideas spread to these regions, the descriptor was adopted by local nationalist movements in places such as Hungary, Japan, the Ottoman Empire and areas under the control of the Russian Empire causing the ideological development of Turanism.

The term Uluğ Ulus was used by the Mongol Empire to describe itself.

Government and politics

Administrative divisions

The first-level administrative division is the Horde, modelled on the ulus (hordes) of the Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde. Hordes are further subdivided into vilayets, and vilayets are divided into sanjaks. Sanjaks are composed of cities, towns and manors. Most administrative divisions are governed under a hereditary noble entitled by the Khagan, except cities which are governed by a Muhtar.

Flag	Coat of Arms	Vilayet	Code	Capital	Pop.	Area (m2)	Tarkhan	Official language(s)	Settlements
White horde
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Kostantiniyye	KON	Kostantiniyye					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Danube	DAN	Daljam					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Archipelago	ARC	Gazimagusa					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Germania	GER	Harlemum					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Biritanya	BIR	Mamicum					List Enter here
Blue horde
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Hejaz	HEJ	Mecca					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Anatolia	ANA	Laranda					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Adana	ADA	Mersin					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Khorasan	KHO	Merv					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Mavarannahr	MAV	Batyr					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Mongolia	MON	Karakorum					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Qirim	QIR	Hacibej					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Kavkaz	KAV	Tiflis					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Iran	IRA	Tabriz					List Enter here
File:NoFlag.svg	File:Nocoa.png	Rus’	RUS	Osokorky					List Enter here