Salur tribe

The Salur were a major Oghuz who mainly settled during the Seljuk conquest of the Middle East in the field of modern-day Turkey and Iran today. A part of the tribe remained on the territory of modern Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Other spellings are Salar, salir and Salyr ( Turkmen ).

Mahmoud al - Kaschghari she mentioned under the name Salghur ( Salġur ) as one of the 24 Oghuz tribes. As a totem animal they had an imperial eagle. Their tribal name means in the Old Turkic, swinging the sword.

From the Salur which came with the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century from Central Asia to Anatolia and the Middle East, the dynasty of the Salghuriden and the Qara Qoyunlu emerged; The one ruled 1148-1282 as Atabegs of Fars, the other from 1380 to 1469 over eastern Anatolia, Azerbaijan and large parts of Iraq and Iran. Furthermore, the Seljuk ruler and vizier Kadi Burhan al -Din was a member of the Salur; He was the last ruler of the Anatolian Beyliks Eretna.

Today there are still members of the tribe in Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and western China. In Turkey today there are 17 places called Salur as well as in Iran and Uzbekistan each a place. In Turkmenistan there are five clans, the descendants of the Salur, these are Teke, Yomut, Salyr, Saryk and Ärsary / Äsary. Thus, about half of the Turkmen in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan descendants of Salur. There are also in the western Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang descendants of Salur who call themselves nowadays Salar. These migrated from the western Central Asia eastward in the 14th and 15th centuries and settled in western China.