Dodurga, Dudurga, Dogar or Tutırka ( tr, Dodurga boyu, tk, Dodurga taýpasy) was one of the 24 Oghuz tribes from the Bozok wing, the tribe of Ay Khan.

History

In the

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, Dodurga (do:durga, first syllable is pronounced longer), was one of the 24 Oghuz tribes. They appear as ''Tutırka'' (Tuvtırka) in

Mahmud Kashgari Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari, ''Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī'', , tr, Kaşgarlı Mahmûd, ug, مەھمۇد قەشقىرى, ''Mehmud Qeshqiri'' / Мәһмуд Қәшқири uz, Mahmud Qashg'ariy / М ...

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and in all other similar sources. Kashgari ranked the Dodurga 16th out of the 24 tribes,

Rashid al-Din Hamadani Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb ( fa, رشیدالدین طبیب;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, fa, links=no, رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilk ...

ranked them 10th, while

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ranked them 7th. Rashid al-Din held the view that Dodurga derived from

Oghuz Khagan Oghuz Khagan or Oghuz Khan ( tk, Oguz Han or Oguz Kagan ; tr, Oğuz Kağan or Oğuz Han; Azerbaijani: Oğuz Xan or Oğuz Xaqan) is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of Oghuz Turks. Some Turkic cultures use the le ...

's second son Ay Khan, whereas Abulghazi mentioned them as the son of Yildiz Khan (Oghuz Khagan's third son). They both thought that the meaning of the word Dodurga was "to take possession and make a land" (or "to take the land and keep it"). There is currently no other evidence as to the meaning of the name.

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historian Karpov noted that most of the Dodurga arrived in

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and the south of

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during the Seljuk's conquest of the area in the 11th century AD.

In Turkey

In the 16th century, there were tribes named Dodurga in various parts of Anatolia, specifically in

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, Tarsus, Kırşehir, Yozgat, Kahramanmaraş, Kocaeli, Bolu, Osmancık (Çorum) and some regions of

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. Another crowded Dodurga community lived between Ulu Yörük and in seven winter quarters in the Turhal region. These Dodurga people were also called Turhal

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. There also numerous toponyms that carry the name Dodurga in various regions of

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In Turkmenistan

The Dodurga now constitute one of the two major divisions of the Gokleng

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of the

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.Ataniyazov, S. Shejere (The Genealogy of the Turkmens). Turan-1. Ashgabat; 1994. p. 136

References

{{Oghuz tribes Oghuz tribes