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Aside from the problem of multiple and very different interpretation of the words bodun and hand, these two are the basic concepts of the cultural and political history of the Turks. In this article, first of all, the important views of medieval Turkish historians on the concept of bodun will be discussed. From these words bodun was translated as "folk" in old sources. The question of whether the second word hand that I am dwelling on means "peace" in the Old Turkish Inscriptions, this meaning is unmistakably XXI. century, it cannot be solved with a single example. The concept of hand can be regarded as "peace" among its other meanings, even if it does not mean peace in its full sense, since it is given as a name to a state of peace among the clan unions that have come together. From the generalizations here, we have seen in my study that this concept pair bodun and hand do not allow to be explained with a one-dimensional meaning. Here I am trying to reformat the key meanings by compiling and interpreting them from various angles. On the other hand, I aim to organize the connotations in a historical perspective in a hierarchy and to determine the connection between hand and bodun. The article will examine the two basic concepts of the Medieval Turkish State law, the bodun and the hand. The word Bodun meant federated clans, which formed the framework of the political confederation of tribes whose political and cultural unity was consolidated with a sense of ethnic affiliation. People or people were the connotations of the word bodun. The common people, the common people, the warrior people and the nobility were added to these meanings later. Nomadic societies distinguished the clan union (al) with an independent power organization in the Middle Ages. The concept of hand was used only for political organization and meant empire, great and sovereign state power.

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