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    The Oghuz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, romanized: Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. In the 8th...
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  • Look up Oghuz or Oğuz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oghuz or Oğuz may refer to: an early Turkic word for "tribe", see Oghuz (tribe) Oghuz languages...
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    Oghuz Khagan or Oghuz Khan (Turkish: Oğuz Kağan or Oğuz Han; Azerbaijani: Oğuz Xan or Oğuz Xaqan; Turkmen: Oguz Han or Oguz Kagan) is a legendary khan...
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    The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people. The three languages with the largest number...
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    Turkmen language (category Oghuz languages)
    referred to as Turkmen Turkic or Turkmen Turkish, is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia. It has an estimated 4.3 million...
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    Turkoman (ethnonym) (category Oghuz Turks)
    /ˈtərkəmən/), was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages. Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in...
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    The Oghuz Yabgu State or Oghuz Il (Old Turkic: Land of Oghuz) was a Turkic state, founded by Oghuz Turks in 766, located geographically in an area between...
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    The Toquz Oghuz (Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰸𐰆𐰔:𐰆𐰍𐰔, romanized: Toquz Oγuz; Chinese: 九姓; pinyin: Jiǔ Xìng; lit. 'Nine Surnames'; Tibetan: དྲུག་རུས་དགུ་, Wylie:...
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  • Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, romanized: Toquz Oγuz budun...
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  • stela has the earliest instance of the term in Old Turkic epigraphy: Toquz Oghuz, the "nine tribes". Later the word appears often for two largely separate...
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    to several Oghuz groups like simply Oghuz, Üç-Oghuz ("three-Oghuz"; possibly Karluks), Altı-Oghuz ("six-Oghuz"), Sekiz-Oghuz ("eight-Oghuz"), possibly...
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    claimed descent from Bayindir Khan, who was a grandson of Oghuz Khan, the legendary ancestor of Oghuz Turks. According to Professor G. L. Lewis: The Ak-koyunlu...
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    Eastern Roman Empire or Anatolia, and "a branch of Oghuz Turks"; he subsequently described the Oghuz as being formed of 22 branches, of which the Pecheneg...
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    Turkmens (category Oghuz Turkic ethnic groups)
    classified as a part of the Eastern Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. In the early Middle ages, Turkmens called themselves Oghuz; in the Middle Ages, they took...
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  • According to the Oghuz Khagan Narratives, their country was in the "unknown northwest". It can be assumed that it's around today's Siberia. Oghuz tried to invade...
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  • As such, Oghuz is a common appellation for many Turkic groups, such as the Toquz Oghuz (nine tribes), Sekiz Oghuz (eight tribes), and Uch Oghuz (three tribes)...
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    Korkut Kitabı) is the most famous among the dastans or epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle...
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  • Seljuk (died c. 1007 or 1009), variously romanized, was an Oghuz Turkic warlord. He was the eponymous founder of the Seljuk dynasty and the namesake of...
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    Oghuz District (Azerbaijani: Oğuz rayonu) is one of the 69 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the north of the country in the Shaki-Zagatala Economic...
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    Kayı (tribe) (category Oghuz tribes)
    romanized: qayïγ or qayig; Turkish: Kayı boyu, Turkmen: Gaýy taýpasy) were an Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. In his Dīwān...
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    also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed...
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  • Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk...
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    Shatuo) Göktürks Oghuz Turks Kanglys Khazars Kipchaks Kurykans Kumans Pechenegs Karluks Tiele Turgesh Tukhsi Yenisei Kirghiz Chigils Toquz Oghuz Orkhon Uyghurs...
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    centuries CE, the Oghuz were a Turkic group that lived in the Caspian and Aral steppes. Partly due to pressure from the Kipchaks, the Oghuz migrated into...
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    referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly...
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  • Modu Chanyu (redirect from Oghuz Han)
    been associated with Oghuz Khagan, a legendary ancestor of Oghuz Turks. The reason for that is a striking similarity of the Oghuz Khagan biography in the...
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    11th century, the territory was gradually seized by the waves of migrating Oghuz Turks from Central Asia, who adopted a Turkoman ethnonym at the time. The...
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  • Top is a village and municipality in the Oghuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 370.[citation needed] 40°56′N 47°26′E / 40.933°N 47.433°E...
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    also named one of his films "Bamsı Beyrek" about a love experienced in Oghuz Turks. The film is centered around Legend II of the Book of Dede Korkut...
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    Turkic-speaking Oghuz tribes moved from Mongolia into present-day Central Asia. Part of a powerful confederation of tribes, these Oghuz formed the ethnic...
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