Teke
Encyclopedia

People

  • Fatih Tekke
    Fatih Tekke
    Fatih Tekke is a Turkish international footballer who currently plays as a striker for Orduspor in the Süper Lig.-Club career:...

    , a Turkish footballer
  • Teke people or Bateke, a Central African ethnic group
    • Teke languages
      Teke languages
      The Teke languages are a series of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people in the western Congo and in Gabon. They are coded Zone B.70 in Guthrie's classification...

      , a series of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people
  • Teke tribe or Tekke, a tribe of southern Turkmenistan
    • Akhal-Teke
      Akhal-Teke
      The Akhal-Teke is a horse breed from Turkmenistan, where they are a national emblem. They are noted for their speed and for endurance on long marches. These "golden-horses" are adapted to severe climatic conditions and are thought to be one of the oldest surviving horse breeds...

      , a horse breed associated with the tribe

Places

  • Beylik of Teke
    Beylik of Teke
    The Anatolian beylik of Teke with its capital at Antalya was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. The dynasty started with a split of territories between two brothers of the dynasty ruling the neighboring Beylik of...

    , a frontier principality established by Oghuz Turkish clans
  • Teke, the Hungarian name for Teaca
    Teaca
    Teaca is a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Archiud, Budurleni, Ocniţa, Pinticu, Teaca and Viile Tecii....

     Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
  • Teke Province, the former name of Antalya Province, Turkey
  • Tekke, a neighborhood of Görmeli
    Görmeli
    Görmeli is a village on the hillside of Taurus mountains near Ermenek, Karaman province, Turkey.-Geography:Görmeli is located in the Karaman Region’s Taurus Mountains range, on the slopes of Taurus mountains. It is on the south-east side of Ermenek town, in the Karaman province. It is 18 km....

    , Turkey

Religion

  • Tekke or khanqah
    Khanqah
    A Khanqah, Khaniqah , ribat, zawiya, or tekke is a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and is a place for spiritual retreat and character reformation...

    , a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood
  • Tekke or zawiyya
    Zawiyya
    The word zawiyya can refer to a sufi brotherhood or the shrine of a saint. Zawiyyas used to be very common in especially North Africa and Iran.-References:...

    , a Sufi brotherhood or the shrine of a saint

Other uses

  • Tau Kappa Epsilon
    Tau Kappa Epsilon
    Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...

     fraternity, one of its members, or its quarterly publication THE TEKE
  • Teke Teke
    Teke Teke
    The Teke Teke is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a young woman, or school girl, who fell on a rail way line and was cut in half by the oncoming train. Now a vengeful spirit, she carries a scythe or a saw and travels on either her hand or elbows, her dragging upper torso making a...

    , a Japanese urban legend about a railway victim who lost her lower torso and slices her victims in half in a similar fashion
  • Telekinesis as in George R.R. Martin's novella Nightflyers
  • Tiki (gecko), a Common House Gecko
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