ulaq - اولاغ
When I was in the primary school I taught in the history course: "there were çapar persons who brought letters from the Achaemenid emperors to the various regional governors in all over the empire territory."
There are two notes here:
When I was in the primary school I taught in the history course: "there were çapar persons who brought letters from the Achaemenid emperors to the various regional governors in all over the empire territory."
There are two notes here:
- ulaq and çapar do the same job (wiki). Moreover, the Farsi word for donkey, olagh, stems from ulaq in Turki because donkeys (instead of horses) were used to perform the telecommunications probably to keep the the job secret.
- The official presence of Turks in ME is known and tough to start on 11th century (1500 after Achaemenids). There is an apparent inconsistency in our History course fiction: presence of an official job called with a Turki word 1500 years before Turks came to ME.