Manavs ( tr, Manavlar) or Manav Turks () are a
Turkic people living in northwest Anatolia, especially in
Sakarya Sakarya may refer to:
Places
* Sakarya Province, in Turkey
** Sakarya (electoral district)
** Sakarya University
* Sakarya (continent), a small continent 90 million years ago
* Sakarya River, in Turkey
* Sakarya, Polatlı, a village in Ankara Pro ...
,
Bilecik
Bilecik is the provincial capital of Turkey's Bilecik Province which is located in northwestern Anatolia. As of 2015 urban population of the city is 64,531. The mayor is Semih Şahin ( CHP).
The town is famous for its numerous restored Turki ...
,
Balıkesir,
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
,
Çanakkale,
Kocaeli,
Eskişehir,
Bolu and
Düzce provinces. It is proposed that Manavs descend from
Cumans and
Kipchaks
The Kipchaks or Qipchaks, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were a Turkic nomadic people and confederation that existed in the Middle Ages, inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. First mentioned in the 8th century as part of the Se ...
who settled in the
Byzantine Empire.
Origin
A group of
Cuman-
Kipchaks
The Kipchaks or Qipchaks, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were a Turkic nomadic people and confederation that existed in the Middle Ages, inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. First mentioned in the 8th century as part of the Se ...
who headed to the
Balkans as a result of the
Mongol incursions into the
Desht-i Qipchaq
The name Cumania originated as the Latin exonym for the Cuman–Kipchak confederation, which was a tribal confederation in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe, between the 10th and 13th centuries. The confederation was dominated by two T ...
lands; it is known that he entered the service of the
Latin and
Nicaea Empires. The
Nicea Empire used this
Cuman group against the Seljuk and Mongol threat and settled it in their lands. This
Cuman-
Kipchak group, which was settled in the territory of the
Nicea Empire with the purpose of buffering against the threats from the East, interbred with the
Oghuzs and formed the people called Manav.
Language
Manavs speak
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
with a dialects bear traces of
Kipchak and
Oghuric
The Oghuric, Onoguric or Oguric languages (also known as Bulgar, Pre-Proto-Bulgaric or Lir-Turkic and r-Turkic) are a branch of the Turkic language family. The only extant member of the group is the Chuvash language. The first to branch off from ...
to varying degrees, in relation to their origins.
(PDF).
References
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Ethnic groups in Turkey