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 == Turco-Persian == 

 Posted by Nostradamus; 

 ""While the word Turko-Mongol is a commonly used term by historians the word Turkic Persianate appears to be an Iranian invention (POV). 

  

 From Bernard Lewis' book, ""Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire"", p29; 

 ""Even when the land of Rum become politically independent, it remained a colonial extension of the Turco-Persian culture which had its centers in Iran and Central Asia. The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian, and when a literature in Turkish first appeared under the early Ottomans, it drew its inspiration from Persia and Central Asia"" 

 and Lewis' book, ""From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East"", p44; 

 ""The center of the Islamic world was under Turkish and Persian states, both shaped by Iranian culture."" 

  
 So much for ""an Iranian invention"".    "