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The Kuvasz Akbaş Relationship by Guvener Isik
(first published in Choban Chatter, Spring, 2013 Vol 23, Issue 1)
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LINGUISTIC ORIGIN

According to Andras Kovacs, a Hungarian veterinarian, "a high proportion of words specific to agriculture in the Hungarian language are of Chuvash/Chuvac origin." The Chuvash were Hun origin people. Based on historical and linguistic evidence and simply because of the similarity of the words "Chuvash, "Kuvasz" and "Chuvach," it may be supposed that the Kuvasz was originally "Chuvash" and, if so, bred by the Hungarians for about 2,500 years."

In Kovacs’ article "The Kuvasz," dated 1988, he asserts that "Kuvasz" could have been pronounced as Chuvash. Kovacs’ and does not claim the term Kuvasz originated from the Ottoman Turkish word Kavas or precisely Kavvâs, meaning soldier with arrow or bowman. Kavas means paper in Urdu language. In old Turkish Kavan meant chaser or person who makes an effort to resist or who fends off an attack, which sounds complementary to a guarding sheep dog, but not exactly.

Bu araştırma da Kuvasz veyz Chuvash Beyaz macar Çoban Köpeği adı eski Türklerin Osmanlıça dan gelmekte oldunu söylenıyor eski dilde Kavas Kavvas Savaşcı demekmiş.
Bu da aynı bosnakların Kebapa nasıl cevapcici diyorlarsa öyle deyşime uğramışdır.

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KINSHIP

The leading Turkish promoters of Akbas believe that Kuvasz is from the same genetic base or were even the same breed as Akbas centuries ago; moreover, Akbas is the ancestor of Kuvasz. Although these claims do not explain why Akbas is a breed in the first place, the biological kinship between Kuvasz and white Anatolian sheep dogs can be investigated further. Comparisons of different DNA samples could be one of the choices for investigation but before that, there seems to be no reason that the kinship between Hungarian and Anatolian sheepdogs would exceed the Hungarian and Anatolian Turkish kinship. Likewise, the relationship between Bulgarian Karakaçan, Anatolian Yörük, and Iranian Kasgay dogs could be similar since the terms used for these dogs are Central Asian in origin and the dogs are from nations who speak Turkic languages. However, arguing that the Kuvasz is solely descended from Akbas would be not a realistic claim, just because two populations may have descended from shared ancestors does not necessarily mean they have exactly the same forebears.

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Bulgaristan da bulunan değişik bir ırk Karakaçan Çoban Köpeği.
One of the oldest breeds of the region, the Karakachansko Kuche is a close cousin of other Balkan Molossers and Turkish breeds. Some believe that the Karakachan Dog is a descendant of old Thracian Wolfdogs, while others trace its roots to Central Asia and the mastiffs of Tibet, but the breed is in reality a regional subtype of the greater Sylvan breed. A number of fanciers link this breed to the rare variety of Turkish working dogs, known as Karayaka, possibly due to its name meaning "Black Runaway" in Turkish. The Karakachan Shepherd is the breed of the nomadic Sarakatsan people, a Hellenized Vlach population which had brought it to South-East Bulgaria centuries ago from Thessaly. With the migrations of the Sarakatsan herdsmen, these dogs could be seen in many regions of the Balkans, from Greece and Macedonia to Serbia and Romania, but it is Bulgaria where the Karakachansko Kuche has kept its name, even though it isn't its native breed. A small number of Karakachan dogs can reportedly still be found in Turkey, but their purity is questionable, with the majority of specimens being suspected of having been crossed with local sheepdogs. It should be noted that even in Turkey, the Bulgarian Shepherd breed is sometimes falsely referred to as the Karakachan nowadays, just like in Bulgaria.

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Bulgaristan ve çevresinde bulun nan eski Türk ırkı sıyah Çoban Köpeği Karakachan(Karakaçan).




Bu da Makedon Karaman Köpeği.
Macedonian Karaman Shepherd.





Bu Tip Köpekler eskiden ben Türkiyede çok görürdüm bunların saflar artık yok Türkiyede ama Balkanlar da var Makedon Karaman Köpeği de Öz ve Öz Türk Köpeğidir.
Doğan karatay Kitabinda eski adamlara sorduğunda Karayaka Çapar cinsinde böyle sıyah köpeklerin olduğu fakat bu Köpekler renginde dolayı tercih edilmediklerinden dolay soyu hemen hemen tükendini yazmışdı.