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Why are the Black Sheep Turks thus named?
The Black Sheep Turks and the White Sheep Turks were political entities from about 1360 until about 1480 (source: McEvedy). I have been unable to discover why they had these distinctive names. Was it just because they had sheep of these colours? If so - why?
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Why are the Black Sheep Turks thus named?  ·  Martin Arnold  ·  7/30/2001, 7:45 PM
Found something....(m)  ·  Zara  ·  7/31/2001, 2:57 PM
Re: Why are the Black Sheep Turks thus named?  ·  Nanaea  ·  7/31/2001, 6:10 AM
typo: "Turkomans"  ·  Nanaea  ·  7/31/2001, 6:13 AM
Turkoman vibration is rockin da nation!  ·  Pavlos  ·  7/31/2001, 7:51 AM
...bleep" :P n/t  ·  Dolly the Lamborghini  ·  8/1/2001, 8:10 AM
Or maybe some form of self-replicating militaristic Furbies n/t  ·  Pavlos  ·  8/1/2001, 2:13 AM
Re: Why are the Black Sheep Turks thus named?  ·  Zara  ·  7/31/2001, 3:30 AM