The Geopolitics on the Silk Road: Resurveying the Relationship of the Western Türks with Byzantium through Their Diplomatic Communications

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L Qiang, S Kordosis

Many scholars are baffled by the Purum embassy (Romans/Byzantium)
mentioned in the Orhon Kül Tegin inscrip- tion (old Turkic), referring to a
delegation sent for the funerary ceremonies related to the death of the first …