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Koroğlu (Turkish: Köroğlu, Azerbaijani: Koroğlu, Uzbek: Goʻroʻgʻli) is a semi-mystical hero and bard among the Turkic peoples which thought lived in XVI. century. The name of "Köroğlu" means "the son of the blind", "the son of ember" or "the son of the clay" (the clay refers the death) in Turkic languages. His real name was Ruşen Ali in Turkish or Rövşən in Azerbaijani.
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Köroğlu Legend in Turkey
He is known with his epic poems during the Jelali revolts as a rebel whose father blinded by the landowner of Bolu, Bolu Beyi. According the Turkish legend, Bolu Beyi asked Köroğlu's father a horse and he thinks that the horse is not good enough for him and he punished Köroğlu's father.
Koroğlu Legend in Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, Koroğlu is believed the be the son of a mother who conceived by the light and who killed by burying alive. Koroğlu can remain alive by coming to his mother's grave and whom breastfeed by his death mother.
Köroğlu in popular culture
