JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES _____________________________________________________________________________________ Journal of the Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna Society Founded: 2009. Internet: www.federatio.org/joes.html _____________________________________________________________________________________ Volume II., Issue 4. / October — December 2010 ____________________ ISSN 1877‐4199 October‐December 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Publisher Foundation ʹStichting MIKES INTERNATIONALʹ, established in The Hague, Holland. 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A brief (max. 10 sentences long) professional CV in English. NEWS BRIEF The news brief section features the latest news from the past three months prior to publication of each Journal of Eurasian Studies issue in the areas of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, genetics, and linguistics with a special focus on Asia and the interaction between various European and Asian peoples. News pieces outside the three‐month period or our scope of focus may also be included if they are found to be of great value and relevance by our editorial board. Please submit a short summary of those newsbytes (max. 100 words) in English to the following email‐address: [email protected], indicating the source as well (also URL if applicable). The column is edited by Andor Zombori. If the original news is only available in hardcopy, please send us a copy to the following address: Journal of Eurasian Studies, P.O. Box 10249, 2501 HE, Den Haag, Holland. The names of the contributors will be published in the journal unless they ask otherwise. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 3 October‐December 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL BOARD Editor‐in‐Chief FARKAS, Flórián The Hague, Holland Deputy Editor‐in‐Chief OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Budapest, Hungary Editors ALIMBAY, Nursan Almaty, Kazakhstan ARADI, Éva Budapest, Hungary BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Budapest, Hungary BÍRÓ, András Budapest, Hungary CSORNAI, Katalin Budapest, Hungary CZEGLÉDI, Katalin Pécs, Hungary ERDÉLYI, István Göd, Hungary HORVÁTH, Izabella Hangzhou, China KARATAY, Osman İzmir, Turkey MAHAPATRA, Debidatta Aurobinda Mumbai, India MARÁCZ, László Amsterdam, Holland MARCANTONIO, Angela Rome, Italy MURAKEÖZY, Éva Patrícia The Hague, Holland SECHENBAATAR Hohhot, China UCHIRALTU Hohhot, China ZOMBORI, Andor Nagoya, Japan _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 4 October‐December 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Dear Reader,.............................................................................................................................................7 Our Authors .............................................................................................................................................8 NEWS BRIEF.................................................................................................. 12 HISTORY ........................................................................................................ 21 MD. HABIB, Reza Post Gupta Bengal — Inscriptions, Coins and Literatures ........................................................22 SZABÓ, Christopher In Memoriam Viktor Padányi .........................................................................................................29 ANCIENT WRITING SYSTEM RESEARCH ............................................. 40 MELLÁR, Mihály The Arkalochori Axe .........................................................................................................................41 ETHNOGRAPHY........................................................................................... 45 MALAYEV, Alibek Kazhgaly uly She‐Wolf‐Mountain ..........................................................................................................................46 МАЛАЕВ, Алибек Кажгали улы ГОРА‐ВОЛЧИЦА.............................................................................................................................58 GEOSTRATEGY ............................................................................................ 70 MARÁCZ, László European Tools of Conflict Management in Central European States with Hungarian Minorities .......................................................................................................................71 LITERATURE & ARTS............................................................................... 104 EKUKLU, Bülent Zeki Demirkubuz ve “Kader” .......................................................................................................105 EKUKLU, Bülent : Zeki Demirkubuz and “Destiny”................................................................................................. 109 MURAKEÖZY, Éva Patrícia The Immortal ....................................................................................................................................111 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 5 October‐December 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ TRAVELOGUE ............................................................................................ 115 TAPON, Francis Finland—or call it Suomi ...............................................................................................................116 BOOK (P)REVIEW...................................................................................... 130 AYDIN, Erhan Köktürk ve Ötüken Uygur Uygur Kağanlığı Yazıtları.............................................................131 BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Ancient Arts of Asia Minor............................................................................................................133 PRELZ OLTRAMONTI, Giulia War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russiaʹs Troubled Frontier ..................................................142 УСМАНОВА, Лариса Айнур Сибгатуллин «Исламский Интернет».....................................................................145 USMANOVA, Larisa : Aynur Sibgatullin «Islamic Internet» ................................................................................... 146 CLASSICAL WRITINGS ON EURASIA.................................................. 148 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna: Eastern‐Mongolian Songs ......................................................149 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 6 October‐December 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER, CHANGE AND CONTINUITY In Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s brilliant novel “The Leopard”, Tancredi, the nephew of the great aristocrat Prince Salina, explains his views to his uncle at the start of Garibaldi’s campaign in Sicily as follows: ‘Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they’ll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. D’you understand?’ This course of thought highlights the essence of the age‐old problem: when to change, what to change, and how to change the governance of a society’s human fabric. The success and in most cases even the sole existence or survival of a family, clan, tribe or nation depends on the outcome of this process. At present moment we are experiencing a rather exciting period in the history