who have come from farther north and east spreading westward from China and Mongolia between the 10th and 15th centuries. Jigit "jigit" is used in the Caucasus and Central Asia to describe a skillful and brave equestrian, or a brave person in general. Gallery Battle, hunting and blacksmithing scenes in Turkic rock art of the early Middle Ages in Altai Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes Images of Buddhist and Manichean Old Uyghurs from the Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes. Medieval times Modern times See also Turkic history Turkic migration Turkic mythology Turco-Persian tradition Turco-Mongol tradition Turkology List of Turkic dynasties and countries References Sources Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Further reading Amanjolov A.S., "History of the Ancient Turkic Script", Almaty, "Mektep", 2003, Baichorov S.Ya., "Ancient Turkic runic monuments of the Europe", Stavropol, 1989 (in Russian). Baskakov, N.A. 1962, 1969. Introduction to the study of the Turkic languages. Moscow (in Russian). Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. . Boeschoten, Hendrik & Lars Johanson. 2006. Turkic languages in contact. Turcologica, Bd. 61. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. . Chavannes, Édouard (1900): Documents sur les Tou-kiue (Turcs) occidentaux. Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. Reprint: Taipei. Cheng Wen Publishing Co. 1969. Clausen, Gerard. 1972. An etymological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Deny, Jean et al. 1959–1964. Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Findley, Carter Vaughn. 2005. The Turks in World History. Oxford University Press. ; (pbk.) Golden, Peter B. An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East (Otto Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden) 1992) Heywood, Colin. The Turks (The Peoples of Europe) (Blackwell 2005), . Hostler, Charles Warren. The Turks of Central Asia (Greenwood Press, November 1993), . Ishjatms N., "Nomads In Eastern Central Asia", in the "History of civilizations of Central Asia", Volume 2, UNESCO Publishing, 1996, . Johanson, Lars & Éva Agnes Csató (ed.). 1998. The Turkic languages. London: Routledge. . Johanson, Lars. 1998. "The history of Turkic." In: Johanson & Csató, pp. 81–125. Classification of Turkic languages Johanson, Lars. 1998. "Turkic languages." In: Encyclopædia Britannica. CD 98. Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 5 September. 2007. Turkic languages: Linguistic history. Karatay, Osman. The Genesis of the Turks: An Ethno-Linguistic Inquiry into the Prehistory