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Teke can also refer to Telekinesis as in George R.R. Martins's Nightflyers

The Teke are a tribe of southern Turkmenistan most famous for their horses, the Akhal-Teke desert horse.

Teke (see Beylik of Teke) is the name of an Anatolian Turkish Beylik centered in Antalya, Turkey, most certainly founded by an offshoot of the Turkmen clan mentioned above. Turkey's Antalya Province used to be called Teke Province till the early years of the Republic of Turkey.

Teke is the English word for the Central African ethnic group the Bateke and their language Kiteke.

The term is widely used in North America to refer to the members of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity, otherwise known as TKE.

Teke is the Maori word for vagina.

 


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