14 Facts About Oghuz Khagan

Oghuz Khagan or Oghuz Khan is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of Oghuz Turks.

Oghuz Khagan started talking as soon as he was born.

Oghuz Khagan stopped drinking his mother's milk after the first time and asked for kymyz and meat.

Oghuz Khagan set a trap for the dragon by hanging a freshly killed deer in a tree, then killed the great dragon with a bronze lance and cut off its head with a steel sword.

Oghuz Khagan formed a special warrior band from the forty sons of forty Turkic begs, thus gathering the clans together.

Oghuz Khagan learned about this plan and instead killed his father and became the khan.

Later, Oghuz Khagan went hunting and saw another mesmerizing girl inside a tree.

Oghuz Khagan married her as well and had three more sons whom he named Gok, Dag, and Deniz.

Oghuz Khagan became the Khan of the Four Corners of the Earth.

Oghuz Khagan called his six sons and sent them to the east and the west.

Rychkov and Soviet historian O Tumanovich - to the 7th century BC The French Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert mentions that Oghuz Khagan Khan lived long before the Persian king Cyrus II.

Swedish geographer and cartographer of the 17th-18th centuries Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, based on the Ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and other historians, concludes that Oghuz Khagan Khan was the leader of the ancient Scythian peoples, under whose leadership they conquered vast territories in the Middle East, Southeast Europe and Egypt in ancient times.

Stralenberg notes that among the Central Asian peoples, Oghuz Khagan Khan enjoys the same fame as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar among Europeans.

Oghuz Khagan Khan is sometimes considered the legendary founder of most Turkic people, and ancestor of the Oghuz Khagan subbranch.