- a variation of Turkoman.
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The Qizilbash were largely Turcoman, another Turkic group with its own language.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
But they are also suspicious of Allawi, who won strong backing among the Sunni Arab and Turcoman inhabitants of the disputed territories claimed by the Kurdish region.
From Time ● Apr. 21, 2010
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Tchislikar we are met by a lighter with several Turcoman passengers.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
From the Amu Daria and the Turcoman steppes to the deserts of Beloochistan, from Persian Khorassan to the valley of the Indus, stretches the country of the Afghans.
From Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute by Theo. F. Rodenbough
Our other fellow sufferers were carried into a more distant part of the country, and distributed among the different tribes of Turcomans who inhabit this region.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
The tall thin man, upon whose rich appearance the Turcomans founded their chief hope, was first examined, and as I was the only one of our party who could talk Persian, I stood interpreter.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Such is the staple of Turkish history, whether amid the hordes of Turkistan, or the feudatory Turcomans of Anatolia, or the imperial Osmanlis.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
Osman Aga endeavoured to comfort me,—made me look back upon my past life, and brought to my recollection our mutual adventures while prisoners among the Turcomans.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Indeed, the only habitations were the little Turkish coffee-houses and the black tents of the Turcomans.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
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