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          Togan was born “Ahmet Zeki Velidi” to an intellectual family on Dec. 10, , in the village of Küzen near Ishimbay in Bashkortostan (now a.

        1. Togan was born “Ahmet Zeki Velidi” to an intellectual family on Dec. 10, , in the village of Küzen near Ishimbay in Bashkortostan (now a.
        2. Underlining that Zeki Velidi Togan is an important scientist and politician in Turkish history, Assoc.
        3. During the Bashkir Congress in Orenburg from December , he declared Bashkortostan's autonomy.
        4. Akademisyen, yazar, siyaset adamı 10 Aralık tarihinde Başkurtistan'da İsterlitamak'a bağlı Küzen köyünde doğdu.
        5. ² Zeki Velidi Togan (d.

          6. During the Bashkir Congress in Orenburg from December , he declared Bashkortostan's autonomy....

          Zeki Velidi Togan: A life devoted to Turkish history

          Late Ottoman and early Republican thought was greater informed thanks to the contributions made by the Turkish thinkers from mostly Muslim territories under the rule of the Russian Empire.

          Following the Russian invasion of the Caucasus, Crimea and Central Asia, many Muslim and Turkish (or "Turkic" as preferred by Western authors) populations came under the sovereignty of the Tzars. After the fall of the Giray dynasty of the Crimean Khanate in the late 18th century, Russia continued its policy of territorial expansion in the Caucasus and Central Asia, both of which had vast expanses annexed through the long 19th and early 20th centuries – mostly thanks to the excessive use of firearms, in a way not dissimilar to the way Russia has operated more recently in conflicts with Georgia, Chechnya and Ukraine.

          Russian imperialist policies in the aforementioned Muslim territories involved the recruitment of the local elites through the h