Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. A war council of ancient Mongol chiefs (also spelt as kuriltai in English). Various Turkic peoples use it as a synonym for council, assembly, convention, gathering. Usually the word is used in political or administrative sense, e.g., as a kind of Parliament or Congress, but not necessarily. Examples are "World Kurultai of Bashkirs", "Fourth kurultai of Crimean Tatars", "National Kurultai of Kyrgyzstan" This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.