Turkmen

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

Peoples[edit]

Historical ethnonym[edit]

Ethnic groups[edit]

  • Turkmen in Anatolia 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
    • Turks in Lebanon, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
    • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Eastern Oghuz[edit]

Western Oghuz[edit]

Places[edit]

Afghanistan[edit]

Azerbaijan[edit]

Iran[edit]

Iraq[edit]

Northern Cyprus[edit]

  • Kontea, known in Turkish as Türkmenköy

Syria[edit]

Turkey[edit]

Turkmenistan[edit]

Culture[edit]

Media[edit]

Other uses[edit]

Animals[edit]

Films[edit]

See also[edit]