Alp Er Tunga or Alp Er Tonga (Alp "brave, hero, conqueror, warrior", Er "man, male, soldier, Tom", Tonga/Tunga "Siberian tiger") is a mythical Turkic hero who was mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's DëwÃÂn LughÃÂt al-Turk, Yusuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bilig and in the Vatican manuscript of Oghuznama by an unknown writer.
The Karakhanids claimed to have descended from Alp Er Tunga.
Alp Er Tunga Epic
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- A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which includes the name of the Turks at the time of the formation of the Western and Eastern Khaganates and said of the inter-ethnicity of the Iranians and the Turanians that Tor or Touraj is the son of Fereydoun and Iraj's brother, and shows that the Turks are not Turanians.