Merv, the Queen of the
World;
and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an
Exposition of the Khorassan Question:
By Charles Thomas Marvin, Published by W.H. Allen, 1881
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE Turkmen.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINOR TRIBES.
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Tribe. Locality. Tents.
5. Chodor-More to the south 12,000
6. Sarik - Upper Murgab - 10,000
7. Salor - Between Sarakhs
and Merv - - 8,000
8. Alieli - Andchoy - - 3,000
2. Kara - - 1,500
196,500 tents.
Total - - - 982,500 souls.
Iii the interval the Salor, the oldest and noblest of the
Turcoman tribes, had been ousted from Sarakhs by the
Persians, and from Merv, where they had afterwards
settled, by the Tekkes, and the latter had become the
"greatest and most powerful tribe of the day."
The Sarik had moved up the Murgab from Merv towards Afghanistan,
and had entered into friendly relations with the Jamshidi
tribe, living near Herat. In other respects the condition
of the tribes was unchanged, if we except the Chodors,
who had moved more to the south, and further away from
the Caspian, in order to escape the encroaching Russians.
The Ata, described by Burnes as " the Sayids of the
race, and said to be descended from the Caliph
Osman," Vambery takes no notice of, nor does he
recognize the existence of the Sakars. On the other hand,
he brings forward the Kara and Alieli tribes, among whom
he passed while journeying from Andchoy, on the Oxus, to
the city of Herat.
In 1878 Major-General Petroosevitch, the present
Governor-General of Transcaspian, explored Turkmenia and
Khorasan, and the list which he has pub-
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