Dastan (jir, ir, chorchok) is ornate oral history, common among the peoples of Central Asia. It conveys the revered and cherished value systems from one generation to the next over millennia. It is part of the permanent record of a people or a confederation. It lives on as a unifying charter in the consciousness of the people whose lives and exploits gave birth to it. It is the national anthem,...

The article’s author reaches the conclusion that Hadji Giray was strongly connected with Kazan «yurt» by family ties. His father, Giyas ad-Din, ruled Volga’s left bank for some time, and his uncle may have been same “Libey” whose murder served as starting point emergence of an independent (after 1445). dastan about in “Compendium Chronicles” is a monument reflects desire representatives left-ba...

The dastan is ornate oral history and an important part of the Turkic literature of Central Asia. Traditionally, dastans have been repositories of ethnic identity and history, and some constitute nearly complete value systems for the peoples they embrace. The primary, or "mother," dastans are those composed to commemorate specific liberation struggles. [1] Set mostly in verse by an ozan, [2] mo...

There are many opinions about the Kazakhs being one of Turkish tribes living in Central Asia since time Saka-Scythians and appearing on stage history. According to most common view, emerged when a community that did not comply with Abulhayhan Khan tended live nomadic way between Chu Talas rivers. In Kazakh Turkish, word dastan corresponds words jir, epos, köne dastan. For heroic epics, batir ji...

Türk xalq ədəbiyyatının həcminə görə ən böyük epik əsəri dastanlardır. Dastanlar bədii-
 obrazlı bir dillə tarixi hadisə və qəhrəmanlıqları dövrümüzə daşımışdır. Bu baxımdan türklərin
 onlarla qonşu xalqların yaddaşında dərin yer etmiş dastanlardan biri də “Koroğlu” dastanıdır.
 Dastan təşəkkül dövrünün qədimliyinə yayılma arealının genişliyinə iki böyük
 versiyaya ayrılmışd...