The turkic people and tribes of Iran

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Azerbaijani Turks



Population: 18 to 25 million

Language family
Turkic
Oghuz
Western Oghuz
Azerbaijani

Qashqai people:
The second largest (after the Azeris) Turkic nation in Iran. They number about 1,500,000 and live in Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan provinces. They are still nomadic to a large extent, despite of efforts of the consecutive Iranian governments to force them to settle down. They have a reputation of being an excellent horsemen, warriors and marksmen.


Population: 1.5 million

Language family:
Turkic
Western Oghuz
Azerbaijani
Qashqai

They have many flags, but it is very little known about them. The flag features the design of the traditional pattern of carpets woven in the area and Southern Azerbaijani-style of the crescent and eight pointed star. Although this flag is flown by the Qashqais, it is the flag of all Turks in South Iran.




The specific Qashqai flag features the tamga of Aq-Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkoman) of which the Qashqai tribes are descended.


Ak Koyunlu Khanate at its greatest extent 1378–1501



Khorasani Turks

Khorasani Turkic people or Qizilbash are Khorasani Turkic-speaking people inhabiting part of northeastern Iran, and in the neighboring regions of Turkmenistan up to beyond the Amu Darya River; and speak the Khorasani Turkic, and live in the North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan and Golestan provinces of Iran.

population: 1 million

Language:
Turkic
Oghuz
Eastern Oghuz
Khorasani Turkic

Turkmen



population: 1 to 1.5 million

Language:
Turkic
Oghuz
Eastern Oghuz
Turkmen

Afshar



The Afshar are one of the Oghuz Turkic peoples.These originally nomadic Oghuz tribes moved from Central Asia and initially settled in Iranian Azerbaijan, later being relocated by the Safavids to Khurasan and Mazandaran.

Afshars in Iran remain a largely nomadic group,with tribes in central Anatolia, northern Iran, and Azerbaijan.They were the founders of the Afsharid and Karamanid dynasties.

Language:
Turkic
Oghuz
South

Afsharid empire under nader shah afshar (also known as Nader Qoli Beg or Tahmasp Qoli Khan ) from delhi to the russian empire.



Afsharid Tricolor Banner


Afsharid Battle Banner



Khalaj people



The Khalaj people are a Turkic people that speak the Khalaj language, which is thought to be one of the closest languages to Old Turkic.

According to Mahmud al-Kashgari, they were mentioned at Divânu Lügati't-Türk:

"Twenty twos call them "Kal aç" in Turkish. This means "Stay hungry". Later, they were called "Xalac". Their origins are these."

According to Zemarcos' Syriac chronicle, Khalajes would be remnants of Hephthalites, were separate Turkic people. He was ambassador of Byzantine Empire to Western Gokturk Khanate in 568. According to Al Khwarizmi, was Samanid officer, they were considered as descendants of Hepthtalithes along with Kanjina Turks. Ibn Khordadbeh mentioned Khalajes lived beyond Syr Darya of the Talas region in his book Kitāb al-Masālik w’al- Mamālik with Karluks. But the information comes into contradictions that make it unreliable. The similarity between Khalaj and Karluk is difficult to determine the truth.

language:
Turkic
Khalaj

Population: 50 thousand.

Qajars

The Qajars are a Turkic Oghuz tribe who lived variously, with other tribes, in the area that is now Armenia, Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. They are considered as a branch of the Azerbaijanis In the 17th and 18th centuries the Kajars resisted the Safavids and settled the Karabakh Khanate. In 1794, a Kajar chieftain, Agha Mohammed, founded the Qajar dynasty which replaced the Zand dynasty in Iran. In the 1980s the Kajar population exceeded 15,000 people, most of whom lived in Iran.

Qajar dynasty



Other turkic states in Iran ( after the seljuq empire)

[Sky earth]

Persians usually like the Safavids but they hate the Qajars more than anything else because the Qajars lost many territories in Iran, as they lost all the Russo-Persian wars.

[StonyArabia]

I wonder why all them looked Caucasoid if they were Turkic? They don't look much different from the Iranians themselves, and all them identified as Persian or with Persian culture, this especially true of the Safavids, and other dynasties that ruled the region. Maybe with the exception of the Ak and Qara who did use the name Turkmen. Uzun Hassan looks somewhat Turanid.

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Persians usually like the Safavid but they hate the Qajars more than anything else because the Qajars lost many territories in Iran, as they lost all the Russo-Persian wars.

They tend to like the Safavid, Afsharid and the zand dynasties( Lur and persian)

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I wonder why all them looked Caucasoid if they were Turkic? They don't look much different from the Iranians themselves, and all them identified as Persian or with Persian culture, this especially true of the Safavids, and other dynasties that ruled the region. Maybe with the exception of the Ak and Qara who did use the name Turkmen. Uzun Hassan looks somewhat Turanid.

Oghuz turks are predominantly Caucasoid, how many times do I have to repeat that ? and no you can't classify him based on 15th century painting.

[Xanthias]

Since when do Turkic tribes come from Iran ?

Your mongrel race has orriginated south-east Kazakhstan (along with another well hated mongrel race - the Huns -), they ain't native Turkish tribes in Iran.

[StonyArabia]

They tend to like the Safavid, Afsharid and the zand dynasties( Lur and persian)

Zand was ok, the first two should have never had their feet in our lands.

[Alphawolf]

My favourite song from an iranian Turk.

[Sky earth]

I wonder why all them looked Caucasoid if they were Turkic? They don't look much different from the Iranians themselves, and all them identified as Persian or with Persian culture, this especially true of the Safavids, and other dynasties that ruled the region. Maybe with the exception of the Ak and Qara who did use the name Turkmen. Uzun Hassan looks somewhat Turanid.

I read somewhere that Qajars are J1 carriers which has nothing to do with Turkic peoples and that they came originally from the Caucasus.

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Zand was ok, the first two should have never had their feet in our lands.

Dude get over yourself nobody cares about your lands now.