kurgan

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Türkisch - Englisch
castle, fortress
mound, toll
tomb, mausoleum
castle
cairn
eairn
Englisch - Englisch
city in Siberia, Russia, administrative centre of Kurgan oblast. Originally called Tsaryovo Gorodishche (Царёво Городище - Tsarjóvo Gorodíšče n.) (1662 - 1782)
A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia

The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.

kurgan

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    Etymologie

    [ kur-'gän, -'gan ] (noun.) 1889. From Russian курган (kurgan), from Turkic (compare Turkish kurgan (“fortress”)).
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