鉄てつ勒ろく

noun

Tiele people

Historical ethnonym for a confederation of Turkic tribes in Central Asia during the early medieval period. Used in Chinese and Japanese historical texts.

• 鉄てつ勒ろくは唐とう代だいの史し料りょうに現あらわれる突とっ厥けつ系けいの部ぶ族ぞく連れん合ごうである。

  The Tiele were a Turkic tribal confederation that appears in Tang-dynasty historical records.