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Turkmun (Hazaragi: تورکمون) or Turkmani (تورکمنی) is a major tribe of the ethnic Hazara people, originating mainly from the Turkman valley in present-day Parwan province of Afghanistan. They have their own dialect of the Persian language known as Hazaragi.

History

Further information: First Campaign against Turkoman Hazaras

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire in the early 16th century, mentioned this Hazara tribe in his autobiography as "Turkoman Hazaras".

Etymology

The etymology of the Turkmani tribe of Hazara, according to Babur, is related to the "Turkoman".

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ Memories of Babur, Babur (Emperor of (1826). Memoirs of Zehir-ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, ... and Cadell and Company, ... Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Company Edinburgh.
  2. پژوهشی در تاریخ هزاره‌ها، نویسنده:حسینعلی یزدانی بهسودی (حاج کاظم). Iran: چاپ خانه مهتاب. 1368. pp. 91 and 92.
  3. Anita Jacobson-Widding. Identity, personal and socio-cultural: a symposium. Volume 5 of Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology. Academiae Upsaliensis, 1983. ISBN 9155415008, 9789155415006
  4. Memories of Babur, Babur (Emperor of (1826). Memoirs of Zehir-ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, ... and Cadell and Company, ... Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Company Edinburgh.
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