- 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
We rode alone; our arms were our only protection; and we tended our own horses, except when relieved from the duty by the hospitable inhabitants of a Turcoman village or an Arab tent.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
It is the case that the Turcoman freebooters did on more than one occasion push their alamans or raids as far even as Ispahan.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Now, first, I shall briefly mention the Turcomans, and dismiss them, because, when they have once illustrated the original state of their race, they have no place in this sketch.
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
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
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
It was only in the attack of the Turcomans, when much property was stolen, that they were completely at their wits' end.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
In Tibet they abound; and the Turcomans have vast flocks of them.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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