Türkmen

In the tents of the Kurdish nomads, just as in the tents of the Türkmens, are woven rugs that enjoy great demand.

After the abolition of Čaγatajid rule in Türkistan at the beginning of the 16th century, the Türkmens were constantly being torn apart by neighboring and rival powers: the Özbeks and Persians; occasionally the Qazaqs and the xānates of Xīwa and Buxārā.

In 455/1063, Qutalmïsh recruited many of his fifty thousand Türkmens in the same region.

Türkmen embroidery is individual and peculiarly vigorous.

By the time that scientific interest was first focused on Türkmen weaving, a large part of its traditions had already been lost, but at the same time, toward the end of the last century, the actual production of rugs was probably at an unprecedented high.

Sultan Alparslan mounted a military campaign to eastern Anatolia aimed at uniting and controlling the Türkmen groups as well as some of the Christian principalities; […]

The Islamisation of Central Asia never succeeded in completely eradicating earlier shamanistic beliefs, particularly amongst the nomadic Türkmen and, according to two academics of Türkmen culture, M.B. Durjev and M. Demidov, these beliefs can be summed up as follows.

The Türkmen peoples had originated in Central Asia, and migrated into Iran, the Caucasus, and eastern Anatolia during the period of the 10th to 13th centuries. Many Türkmen tribes adopted a pastoral economy, though some settled into villages as animal husbandmen.

The importance of the angle of the diagonal has been observed by scholars of the more recent Türkmen rugs from Central Asia, […]

Manuel Comnenus moves to Sebastea because of Türkmen raiders.