Noghai
Tatars. After the Crimean War about 20,000 Noghai
families left Russiaand settled on the Cilician
plain. Coming from a cool bracing climate to the
swampy portion of the plain, with no doctors, and
no one to advise them, they died by thousands,
and now only about 2000 families are left. They
are quiet inoffensive people, living on or near
the banks of the Jihun.Handbook for
Travellers Asia Minor, Trancaucsia, Persia,
Etc… Edited By Major-General, Sir Charles
Wilson, R.E, K.C.B.
London (UK): John Murray, Albemarle Street 1896.