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Khamsa (Navoi)

Alisher Navoi monument, Tashkent
Artemev Nikolay / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Author
Alisher Navoiy
Published
1485
Language
çağatay türkcəsi

Five long poems written in Turkic by Alisher Navoi in 1483–1485 — the first complete Turkic answer to Nizami's Khamsa. With it Navoi proved Turkic to be as rich a poetic language as Persian.

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