Altan (name)
Appearance
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Language(s) | 1. Turkish 2. Mongolian |
Meaning | 1. "golden" 2. "dawn" |
Altan (meaning in Mongolian: golden[1] and in Turkic: dawn) may refer to:
Music
- Altan (band), an Irish folk and traditional music group
- Altan (album), the second album by Frankie Kennedy and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Given name
- Altan Aksoy, a Turkish football player
- Altan Erkekli, a Turkish theatre and film actor
- Altan Erol, a Turkish professional basketball player
- Altan Debter, an early, now lost history of the Mongols
- Altan Khan, a Mongol ruler (1507-1582)
- Altan Khan of the Khotgoid, a succession of rulers of north-western Mongolia in the 17th century
- Altan Öymen, a Turkish journalist, author and former politician
- Altan Telgey, a Mongol earth goddess
- Altan Tobchi, a 17th century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan
- Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band
Surname
- Ahmet Altan, a Turkish journalist and author
- Çetin Altan, a Turkish writer, journalist, and former member of parliament
- Francesco Tullio Altan, Italian satire and comic book author
- Kaan Altan, a founding member of the Turkish rock band Mavi Sakal
Places
- Altan Jalab, a village in Afghanistan
References
- ^ Гарма Данцаранович Санжеев - The modern Mongolian language (1973), p. 24