Teke

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Teke or Tekke can refer to:

People

• Teke people or Bateke, a Central African ethnic group
  • Teke languages, a series of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people
• Teke (Turkmen tribe) or Tekke, a tribe of southern Turkmenistan
  • Akhal-Teke, a horse breed associated with the tribe
• Fatih Tekke (born 1977), Turkish footballer
• Kent Tekulve (born 1947), American baseball player

Places

• Beylik of Teke, a frontier principality established by Oghuz Turkish clans
• Teke, the Hungarian name for Teaca Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
• The former name of Antalya Province, Turkey
• Tekke, a neighborhood of Görmeli, Turkey
• Mount Teke, the highest peak in İskilip, Turkey

Religion

• Tekke or Khanqah, a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood
• Tekke or Zawiya (institution), a gathering place of a Sufi order, or the shrine of a saint
• Tekyeh, a place where Shiites gather for mourning of Muharram

Other uses

• Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, one of its members, or its quarterly publication THE TEKE
• Teke Teke, 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

See also

• Teak, a tropical hardwood tree species
• Tekes (disambiguation)
• Tiki (disambiguation)