Teke Explained

Teke or Tekke can refer to:

People

• Teke (tribe), a tribe of southern Turkmenistan
• Teke people or Bateke, a Central African ethnic group
• Fatih Tekke (born 1977), Turkish footballer
• Kent Tekulve (born 1947), American baseball player

Places

• Tekke of Frashër, a Bektashi shrine and Cultural Monument of Albania in Gjirokastër County
• Tekke of Martanesh, a Cultural Monument of Albania in Dibër County
• Tekke of Melan, a khanqah in Libohovë, Albania
• Teke (lake), Kazakhstan
• Teke, Lesotho
• Tekke, Kazan, Ankara Province, Turkey
• Tekke, Sarayköy, Denizli Province, Turkey
• Teke Peninsula, in Antalya Province, Turkey
• Beylik of Teke, a frontier principality established by Oghuz Turkish clans
• Mount Teke, the highest peak in İskilip, Turkey
• Teaca (Hungarian: Teke|link=no), a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
• Tekke, a neighborhood of Görmeli, Turkey
• Takya (or Tekke in Turkish), which may refer to the gathering place of a Sufi brotherhood, or the shrine of a Sufi saint
• Takyeh, a place where Iranian Shiites gather for mourning of Muharram

Religion

• Takya (or Tekke in Turkish), which may refer to the gathering place of a Sufi brotherhood, or the shrine of a Sufi saint
• Takyeh, a place where Iranian Shiites gather for mourning of Muharram

Other uses

• Teke languages, a series of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people
• Teke Teke, a Japanese urban legend
• Akhal-Teke, a horse breed associated with the tribe
• Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, one of its members, or its quarterly publication THE TEKE
• Telekinesis, as in George R.R. Martin's novella Nightflyers

See also

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