Turan Explorer (@turan

Turan Explorer

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Turan Explorer

@turan_explorer

Interested in history, language and weirdness — focused on Hungary. Subscribe to my podcast about Hungarian Turanism and also my TikTok.

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Joined November 2022

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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Jun 10, 2025
The Scythians are not buried in their kurgans, they are among us today! Learn more in the new season of the Turán Explorer podcast — finally launching now! From juiceless coup-plotters to the father of history, the Scythians have captivated so many.
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E7 We Were All Scythians
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Oct 24, 2025
Hungarians and Romanians use this great internet speed to call each other Mongols and Gypsies in the comments of TikTok videos
Brilliant Maps
@BrilliantMaps
Oct 24, 2025
Average Internet Speeds Across Europe In 2025 What is Romania doing right and Austria doing wrong? Source: datavis.europeandatajournalism.eu/obct/connectiv…
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Aug 21, 2025
Well I’m glad they could sort that out
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Oct 3, 2025
Turkish guy trying to sell me overpriced candy kept saying I looked Turkish and when I told him I was Hungarian he said “szervusz!” named like 10 Hungarian cities he had been to and kept calling me “Attila” (it worked)
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Mar 16, 2025
Fun fact: 18% of the times the U.S. Congress has declared war, it has declared it against Hungary
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Apr 17, 2025
Very underrated that Jamaica becomes New Roumania
Civixplorer
@Civixplorer
Apr 15, 2025
This WWI Allied propaganda map (1916) imagines a U.S. conquered by the victorious Central Powers.
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
May 27, 2025
Type of comments I live for
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
May 19, 2025
I keep showing this to Americans expecting them to go “woah” because they have an innate recognition of Romania’s ethnographic map and getting surprised when they do not
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Aug 10, 2025
Was wondering what the oldest written attestation in Finnish was — did not expect it would be a German saying “I want to speak Finnish, but I am not able to” incorrectly
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Oct 3, 2025
Everyone told me there were cats in Istanbul. I watched the documentary about cats in Istanbul twice before coming here. I still underestimated how many cats are in this city
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Sep 19, 2025
The joy I get from telling people just how different the endonym for Hungary is from the exonym
Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
Sep 18, 2025
Countries where the local name is extremely different from the English version
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Jul 5, 2025
Really don’t know if this whole Central Europe thing exists I’m afraid…
Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
Jul 3, 2025
Europe’s cultural-spatial divisions as defined by the Standing Committee on Geographical Names, Germany
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Oct 14, 2025
The flooding also destroyed the villages where the Hungarian-descended Nubians supposedly lived (which I thought was a myth until a bunch of Sudanese people told me otherwise) But I swear I will go to Sudan one day and make a video about whoever from this community remains
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@ghayo0da
Oct 14, 2025
It will always break my heart that ancient Nubian towns in Sudan were drowned on purpose. They flooded 170km of land in the Nile Valley, the heartland where the Kingdom of Kush flourished for thousands of years. The flooding forced over 70k people from their ancestral lands. On
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Turan Explorer
@turan_explorer
Jul 7, 2025
Anyone know what this symbol is? Found among random antique jewelry collected by my wife’s grandmother — a Dutch woman who’s lived decades in the U.S. south The letters could be П, π or ח, so maybe my Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek or esoteric knowing friends could have some insight
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