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Turko  n.  (pl. turkos)  (Written also Turco)  One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk.






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"Turko" Quotes from Famous Books



... authority of Tarsus that once it was no mean city, but that is a tale of nineteen centuries ago. The Turko-Italian War had not been fought when Fred Oakes took the fever of the place, although the stage was pretty nearly set for it and most of the leading actors were waiting for their cue. No more history was needed than to grind ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... and the associated smaller Native States. The Sikh, Muhammadan and Hindu Jats, the Kashmiris and the Rajputs all belong to the tall, fair, leptorrhine Indo-Aryan main stock of the area, merging on the west and south-west into the Biluch and Pathan Turko-Iranian, and fringed in the hill districts on the north with what have been described as products of the "contact metamorphism" with the Mongoloid tribes of Central Asia. Thus, in spite of the inevitable blurring of boundary lines, the political divisions treated together in this volume, ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie



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