Battal Gazi or "Sidi" or "Seyyid" Battal Ghazi was a Muslim, most likely Arab, saintly figure and warrior based in Anatolia (associated primarily with Malatya, where his father, Hüseyin Gazi, was the ruler) during the late Umayyad period (8th century) whose attributed legends, which also form the bulk of the information available on the historic personality, later became an important part in Turkish folk literature. Wikipedia
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...38, Hamid Alimjan [Olimjan], Gazi Alim, M. Ghabdullin, Tura Mirzaev, T. Sydykov, and the Russian V. M. Zhirmunskii, all of whose works are discussed below. In the West, there are a ... vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-1/chapter_1....
