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The Most Noble Horse, Pure Blood Turkish Horse: AHAL TEKE For the Turkmen, the horse is so important that the horse figure has taken its place even in the coat of arms of Turkmenistan. The Turkmen homeland of the Turkmen horse Ahal Teke, which is one of the legendary horse breeds in the world with its beauties, is Turkmenistan. There is controversy as to where and when these horses start taming. It was determined by scientists and historians that Ahal-Teke was domesticated at least 5000 years ago in Turkmenistan. The earliest evidence of this is the presence of horse sculptures in the oldest place of domestication in Karatepe (Garadepe). However, Altintepe (Altyndepe) and Ulutepe (Ulugdepe) in the ruins of M. Ö. 3000-year-old statues of horses were found. Horse sculptures were also found in the ancient Merv ruins in Marı. During the excavations at Konur Tepe (Gonurdepe) in 2000, the remains of horses and brass horns, reed instruments to move the horses and statuettes of Ahal-Teke horse were found. According to archaeologists, these finds were found by M. Ö. 2000-3000. This is an indication that since then the elite Ahal-Teke horses have been raised. Ahal Teke blood is found in many European horse breeds. All breeders registered in the book of the British whole blood horse race are based on three stallions who went to England from the Ottoman Empire. One of these has gone from North Africa and is probably the Arabian horse. But the other two, especially