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Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a postulated Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. The accounts were often embellished with various tropes of medieval popular literature, depicting Prester John as a descendant of the Three Magi, ruling a kingdom full of riches, marvels, and strange creatures. At first, Prester John was thought to reside in India. Reports of the Nestorian Christians' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like…
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Turkic Christians are ethnic Turkic people who follow Christianity. The Christian Turkic peoples represent an intersection of Turkic and Christian cultural and historical dynamics, particularly within the context of Central Asia, Balkans, and the Caucasus. Historically, the most prominent group within this category were the Bulgars. Currently, the Christian Turkic peoples include the Chuvash of Chuvashia, the Gagauz (Gökoğuz) of Moldova, Yakuts of the Sakha Republic, and two Tatar subgroups (Kryashens and Nağaybäks) of the Volga-Ural region. The vast majority of people from those ethnic groups are Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Bulgars were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourish…
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