- 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
In order to make matters more pleasant, the sultana associated a Mameluke named Turcoman with her in the government, and even condescended so far as to unite herself with him in marriage.
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar
Before the end of summer, in the latter part of August, the Turcomans begin to retire behind the Kouma, into the government of the Caucasus.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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
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
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 former of these go among us by the general name of Turks; the latter are the Turcomans or Turkmans.
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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