Yörüks
Turkish semi-nomadic ethnic subgroup / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Yörüks, also Yuruks or Yorouks (Turkish: Yörükler; Greek: Γιουρούκοι, Youroúkoi; Bulgarian: юруци; Macedonian: Јуруци, Juruci), are a Turkic ethnic subgroup of Oghuz descent,[4][5][6] some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia, and partly in the Balkan peninsula.[7] On the Balkans Yörüks are distributed over a wide area from the eastern parts of North Macedonia, parts of Bulgaria, north to Larissa in Thessaly and southern Thrace.[8][9] Their name derives from the Turkish verb yürü- (yürümek in infinitive), which means "to walk", with the word yörük or yürük designating "those who walk on the hindlegs, walkers".[10][11] The Yörüks were under the Yörük Sanjak, (Turkish: Yörük Sancağı) which was not a territorial unit like the other sanjaks, but a separate organisational unit of the Ottoman Empire.[12][13]
Regions with significant populations | |
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Anatolia, Balkans | |
Turkey | >1,000,000[1] (1970) |
North Macedonia | 4,000[2] |
Bulgaria | 1,000[3] |
Languages | |
Turkish | |
Religion | |
Islam (Sunnism, Alevism) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Turkish people and other Turkic peoples |
According to some, those tribes residing in the east of the Kızılırmak river are called Turkmen and those in the west Yörük. Both terms were used together in Ottoman sources for Dulkadirli Turkmens living in Maraş and its surroundings.[14] The ethnohistorical terms Turcoman and Turkmen are used synonymously in literature to designate Yörük ancestry.[6]