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The major modern Turkmen tribes are Teke, Yomut, Ersari, Chowdur, Gokleng, and Saryk. [1] [2] The most numerous are the Teke.[3]The origin of all of these tribes is traced to 24 ancient Oghuz tribes, among which the Salur tribe played a prominent role as its people are considered the ancestors of modern Turkmen tribes such as Teke, Yomut and Ersari.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Oghuz Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia This article is about the Central Asian ethnic group. For other ethnic groups, see Turkmen (disambiguation) § Ethnic groups. Ethnic group Turkmens Türkmenler Түркменлер توركمنلر Turkmens in folk costume at the 20th ...
Like other Turkmen tribes, the Saryk are known as carpet-makers and have their own distinctive style: dark red-brown carpets with the pattern picked out in fine, thin lines. [7] They use a symmetrical (Turkish) knot, like the Yomut do. [9] The Saryk are also famed for their jewellery. [10]
Historically each Turkmen tribe has had its own unique carpet pattern, clothing, headgear and dialect. [7] [8] [9] Teke Turkmen carpets often feature a standard Teke rosette (Turkmen: göl), called the guşly göl, which in the words of O'Bannon "has the least variation of all Turkoman guls [sic] and has apparently changed least through time.
The refugees, who were orphaned twin sisters and resided in Birmingham, England, were claiming asylum in the country. [19] Kyrgyz former politician Maxim Bakiyev is a resident in the United Kingdom. [20] [21] In 2015, the UN estimated there were 1,132 Kyrgyz residents in the UK. [2]
The name Oghuz is a Common Turkic word for "tribe". By the 10th century, Islamic sources were calling them Muslim Turkmens, as opposed to those of Tengrist or Buddhist religion; and by the 12th century this term was adopted into Byzantine usage, as the Oghuzes were overwhelmingly Muslim. [13]
Outside the capital, the national language of Turkmen is the most widely encountered. In Ashgabat and Türkmenbaşy, the Russian language is commonly encountered; however, with recent efforts to revive the ancient culture of Turkmenistan, Turkmen is quickly regaining its place as the chief language of the state.
Turkoman, also known as Turcoman [note 1] (English: / ˈ t ɜːr k ə m ə n /), [2] was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A.D, formed a tribal confederation in an area between the Aral and Caspian seas in Central Asia, and spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.