Turkmen

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Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:

Peoples

Historical ethnonym

Ethnic groups

  • Turkmen in Anatolia, Caucasus and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish descendants):
    • Iraqi Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq
    • Israeli Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Israel
    • Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
    • Palestinian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in the region of Palestine
    • Syrian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria
    • Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
    • Anatolian beyliks, small principalities in Anatolia governed by Beys, late 11th–13th centuries
  • Turkmens, a Turkic people native to Central Asia living primarily in Turkmenistan and North Caucasus

Other uses for people

  • Türkmen (surname), list of people with the surname
  • Qarapapaqs or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
  • Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)

Languages

Eastern Oghuz

Western Oghuz

Places

Culture

Media

Other uses

Animals

Films

See also

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