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tekke

Noun

Meaning

tekke (plural tekkes)

In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The same hatred is extended to the Tekke Turkomans, whom the Goklans and Yamuds, moreover, look upon as their inferiors, being, according to their genealogies, the descendants of a slave-woman, whilst they are the posterity of a free-woman. Source: Internet

During the 1830s, the Tekke Turkomans, then living on the Tejen River, were forced by the Persians to migrate northward. Source: Internet

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