Merv, the Queen of the
World;
and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an
Exposition of the Khorassan Question:
By Charles Thomas Marvin, Published by W.H. Allen, 1881
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE Turkmen.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINOR TRIBES.
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Khiva, have chosen the
mouth of the Atrek and Gorgon as their home. Each of
these two divisions is further sub-divided into larger or
smaller sections, which, in their turn, are divided into
branches (clans), and these latter into families.*
“The Caspian Yomuds.”
The Kara-Tchook Yomuds are divided into two branches,
both large, the Sharif- Jafarbai and Ak-Atabai. As a
rule, the terms Sharif and Ak are rarely used, the
branches being spoken of simply as the Jafarbai and
Atabai. Both inhabit the littoral of the Caspian sea.
"
All Turkmen,
irrespective of the tribe to which they belong, are
divided into two classes : — the Tchomoor, or
settled people, engaged in agriculture ; and the Tcharva,
or nomad cattle-breeders, Vambery
observes : — " According to our European ideas,
we name the main divisions of the Turkmen, stocks, or
tribes, because we start from the assumption of one
entire nationality. But the Turkmen, who, as far as
history records, never appear united in any single body,
mark their principal races by the name Khalk (in Arabic
people), and designate them as follows: —
Employing, then, the expression
adopted by these nomads themselves, and annexing the
corresponding words and significations, we have: —
The Khalks are divided into Taife, and these again into
Tire."
It is curious that Petroosevitch never quotes from, or
ever refers to, Vambery in his articles on the Turkmen.
— C. M.
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