The early history of the Turks is lost in legend. They are first mentioned in Chinese sources in the fourteenth century BC. In the second century BC they are the warrior tribes Hiung-nu or Hsiung-nu. The name Turks first appears in the sixth century AD, in the Chinese form of Tu-küe, which Greek sources render as Turqos
Las chicas que dejamos detrás de nosotros. La partida del 11º de Húsares hacia la India (The Girls We Left Behind Us. The Departure of the 11th Hussars for India) - Thomas Jones Barker.
Aparte de "caballería del musgo", he encontrado como definición "one of a class of 17th century raiders in the marshy border country between England and Scotland", que se puede traducir como "Clase de invasores del siglo 17 en la pantanosa zona fronteriza entre Inglaterra y Escocia"