Ulus
Ulus is a word from Turkish and related languages .
Concept history
- Ulus originally stands for the term people . But ulus was also used to designate an apanage , consisting of people and their herds, which was mainly assigned to members of Turkish-Mongolian ruling families. In German, ulus is often translated as "Reichsgebiet". In the course of the disintegration of the Mongol Empire , these former parts of the Mongolian Empire changed into independent states.
- In administrative languages, Ulus denotes a small administrative district:
- historically in the Ottoman Empire and in the Kalmyk ASSR
- today in the Republic of Sakha in the northeast of the Russian Federation . There it corresponds to the Russian term Rajon . It is улус / ulus the Russian version, the Yakut contrast улууha / uluuha .
Ulus as a proper name
Ulus are:
- a district in the Turkish province of Bartın, see Ulus (Bartın)
- the historical city center of Ankara , see Ulus (Ankara)
- a quarter in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, see Ulus (Istanbul)