Turan

Country Earth (Hyborian Age) Hyborian Age

Turan is a country of the Hyborian Age. It is a land of arid steppe on the shores of the Vilayet Sea.

Turan is a country of the Hyborian Age. It is a land of arid steppe on the shores of the Vilayet Sea. The Turanians are a Hyrkanian people famed for their horsemanship.

Geography

Turan is an eastern nation located on the distant south-western shores of a great inland sea, known as the Vilayet. Turan is considered by many in the Conan universe to be the mightiest empire to have ever existed.

Population and culture

Inhabited by the Hyrkanian race — dark and generally tall and slender.

Between the inland sea and the eastern borders of the native western kingdoms lie vast expanses of steppes and in the extreme north and extreme south, deserts.

Noted for bandits. Powerful Turanian bow kills at five hundred paces.

Women wear veils. Silk is very common here, and it is worn by all classes of people from nobles and soldiers to commoners and slaves.

Slavery is very common in Turan. Some of the largest slave markets in all the world exist here.

Turanian's are worshippers of the god Erlik.