Turkmen
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Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:
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Peoples
=Historical ethnonym=
- Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages
=Ethnic groups=
- Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish descendants):
- Until the 17th and 18th centuries, Azerbaijani Turks were also called this way
- Iraqi Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq
- Israeli Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Israel
- Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
- Palestinian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in the region of Palestine
- 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
- Iranian Turkmens, Turkmen minority living in Iran
- Afghan Turkmens, Turkmen minority living in Afghanistan
- Turkmen in Pakistan, mostly Turkmen refugees from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan living in Pakistan
- Turkmen tribes, the major modern Turkmen tribes that live in Turkmenistan, Iran and Afghanistan
=Other uses for people=
- 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
=Eastern Oghuz=
- Turkmen language, the official language of Turkmenistan
- Turkmen alphabet, used for official purposes in Turkmenistan
=Western Oghuz=
- Iraqi Turkmen/Turkman dialects, a Turkish dialect in Iraq
- Syrian Turkmen/Turkman dialects, a Turkish dialect in Syria
Places
=Afghanistan=
=Azerbaijan=
=Iraq=
=Northern Cyprus=
- Kontea, known in Turkish as Türkmenköy
=Syria=
=Turkey=
=Turkmenistan=
Culture
- Music of Turkmenistan
- Turkmen rug, a type of handmade floor-covering originating in Central Asia
=Media=
- Türkmen Owazy, a music TV channel in Turkmenistan
- Türkmeneli TV, a bilingual (Arabic and Turkish) TV channel based in Iraq and Turkey
Other uses
- Someone or something related to Turkmenistan
=Animals=
- Hybrid camel, sometimes called a Turkoman
- Central Asian Shepherd Dog, known as the Turkmen Alabai
- Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
- Turkmenian kulan, Equus hemionus kulan, a type of wild ass
- Turkoman (horse) (born 1982), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
=Films=
- Torkaman (film), a 1974 Iranian film
See also
- Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Turkmen manat, the currency of Turkmenistan
- Turkoman people (disambiguation)
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