- 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
"Is Turcoman to run?" asked Lord Charles, negligently.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
The power of that kingdom was already waning, and, but for the knights of the military orders now in Jerusalem, the city must have yielded to the Turcoman hordes that continually menaced it.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Such are the Turcomans, called Troushmens by the Russians.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
We have just heard that the Nabob of Lucknow’s brother, on his return from a pilgrimage to Mished, was taken prisoner with the whole caravan by the Turcomans.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
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
The Turks came into the pleasant plains and valleys of Sogdiana; the Turcomans into the well-wooded mountains and sunny slopes of Asia Minor.
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 Turcomans, who are spread over the whole of Asia Minor, are a most warlike people.
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
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