Salur (tribe)
Salyr | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Turkey, Turkmenistan, Iran, China[a] | |
Languages | |
Oghuz Turkic | |
Religion | |
Islam | |
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Oghuz Turks |
Salur, Salyr or Salgur (Turkish: Salır, Turkmen: Salyr, Persian: سالور) was an ancient Oghuz Turkic (or Turkoman) tribe and a sub-branch of the Üçok tribal federation.[clarification needed]
The medieval Karamanid principality in Anatolia belonged to the Karaman branch of the Salur.[2] The Salghurids of Fars (Atabegs of Fars), were also a dynasty of Salur origin.[3]
The patriarchs of the modern Turkmen tribe of the Salyr in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, as well as the Salars of China, claim descent from the original Oghuz Salur.[2][4]
Etymology
Historian and statesman of the
Turkologist Peter B. Golden believes the name comes from Salğur < sal- "to put into motion, violent motion," in Oghuz "to be aggressive, to hurl oneself into attack." Thus, this is a tribal name expressing military power, force and aggression. Such nomenclature may have appeared more in the medieval Turkic environment (e.g. Qiniq), as for personal names.[5]
History
According to various versions of the Oghuz Turkic heroic epos Oghuzname, the Salyr tribe played an important role in the Oghuz Yabgu State up to the middle of the 10th century until the beginning of the Seljuk movement, and many Khans of this State were from the Salyrs. Rashid al-Din Hamadani:[6]
For a long time, royal dignity remained in the Oghuz family; for so long the dignity of the sovereign was in the ancestral branch of Salyr, and after that (from) other branches (also) there were revered kings.
Subsequently, the bulk of the Salyr tribe lived on the territory of
Salur Kazan, one of the heroes in
See also
- Oghuz traditional tribal organization
- Chepni, another Üçok tribe.
Notes
References
- ISBN 978-3447053105. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-08265-6. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Salghurids, C.E. Bosworth, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. VIII, ed. C.E.Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and G. Lecomte, (E.J.Brill, 1995), 978.
- ^ "China's Minority Peoples – The Salars". Cultural-china.com. Cultural China. 2007–2014. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ Benjamin Golden, Peter (2000). ""I Will Give the People unto Thee": The Činggisid Conquests and Their Aftermath in the Turkic World". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 10: 39.
- ^ Рашид ад-Дин Хамадани (Rashid-al-Din Hamadani) (1952). "Сборник летописей (Compendium of Chronicles)". Средневековые источники Востока и Запада (Medieval Sources of Orient and the West).
- ISBN 9780748621378.
- ^ The Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Handbook. By Clifford Edmund Bosworth.
- ^ З.Ш. Навширванов. Предварительные заметки о племенном составе тюркских народностей, пребывавших на юге Руси и в Крыму. Симферополь (1929)..
- ^ В.А.Бушаков. Тюркская этноойконимия Крыма. Институт языкознания Академии наук СССР, Москва (1991)..
Bibliography
- Leiser, G. (1995). "Salur". In ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.