Melgunov’a Göre 19. Yüzyılda İran’da Türkmen Boyları

Abstract

By travelling to Iran in 1860, Grigory Valerianovich Melgunov conducted research in the region where Turkmens lived and published his travel book in Russia. In his book, the settlements of the Turkmen living on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea at the beginning of the 19th century, their relations with Iran and Russian States and their social and political relations are described in detail and a classified list of Turkmen tribes is given. In this study, the information given by Melgunov about the Turkmens is evaluated, and the main forms of the Turkmen Turkish names of the tribes identified during our research trips to the region are given, and the erroneous parts in Melgunov’s list are pointed out