The German philologist Max Muller proposed a language family named for this region that would include Finnic and Samoyedic tongues.
To mark the border between this region and its southern [emphasize] neighbor after a peace treaty, a warrior climbs a mountain and fires an arrow with all his might, then dies from exertion. The German philologist Max Muller proposed a language family named for this region that would include Finnic and Samoyedic tongues. The heroine Banu Goshasp and her brother Faramarz are best known for their exploits in India and this region. The Hungarian traveler Ármin Vámbéry popularized a form of international racial pride named for this region that became extremely popular among Ottoman nobility. This non-Persia region's (*) "daughter" is the subject of a poem by Nizami that may have inspired a related Carlo Gozzi story about a princess. In the Shahnameh, Rustam leads armies in a war against this region in one of several wars it fights with Iran. For 10 points, give this ancient Persian term for Central Asia, which lends its name to some movements of Pan-Turkic nationalism.
To mark the border between this region and its southern [emphasize] neighbor after a peace treaty, a warrior climbs a mountain and fires an arrow with all his might, then dies from exertion.
Turan [accept Turanic languages, Turanid race, Turan-Dokht, etc. but do not accept or prompt on "Turandot"]