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Orhon River
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Orhon River

 or Orkhon River

River, north-central Mongolia. Some 700 mi (1,130 km) long, it rises from the slopes of the Hangayn Mountains and flows east, then north past the ruins of Karakorum. The 8th-century funerary stelae discovered in the river's valley in 1889 contain some of the oldest known Turkic writing, called the Orhon inscriptions. The river is navigable for shallow-draft vessels only in July and August.
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It covers subjects that range from the classification of Turkic languages to religion, literature, the arts, and general lifestyle; from the inception of Turkic history documented by Runic inscriptions on the Orkhon River in Mongolia, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey; from the shamanistic cults of Turks in Siberia to Islam, whose standard-bearers were the Ottoman Turks confronting Europe in the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
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