THE COMMON TRADİTİONS AND VALUES OF TURKİC PEOPLES:FOLK CALENDAR (BASED ON THE MATERİALS OF CRİMEAN TURKS)
Journal: Reconstructing the Past Journal of Historical Studies
Year: 2025

Throughout history, humans have sought to create systems to structure time in order to understand their past, present, and future, as well as to comprehend the world around them. Observing the movements of the moon and the sun, they developed their own calendars. Naturally, every culture ties the beginning of its calendar to a particular origin story, often passed down from generation to generation. In the cultural heritage of Turkic peoples, continuity and tradition are deeply rooted and consis