Oghuz Tamghas

A tamgha is a design identifying property or cattle to belong to a specific Turkish clan, usually as a cattle brand or stamp. // Use of the term The concept of property or ownership has no single or universally accepted definition. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... A stamp is a distinctive mark or impression made upon an object, for instance those made on a piece of paper and used to indicate the prepayment of a fee or tax. ...

When Turkish clans took over more urban or rural areas, tamghas dropped out of use as pastoral ways of life became forgotten. This is most evident in the Turkish clans who took over western and eastern Anatolia following the Battle of Manzikert. The Turks who took over western Anatolia founded the Sultanate of Rum became Roman-style aristocrats, and most of them adopted the (at the time) moslem symbol of the Seal of Suleyman after the sultanate disintegrated into a mass of feuding Ghazi states (see Candaroglu, Karamanid). Only the Ottoman ghazi state (later to become the Ottoman Empire) kept their Tamgha, and this was highly stylized, so much so that the bow was stylized down eventually to a crescent moon. Look up urban in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Sheep eating grass in rural Australia Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. ... Titians The Pastoral Concert Pastoral refers to the lifestyle of shepherds. ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... The Battle of Manzikert (Turkish Malazgirt Savaşı) occurred on August 26, 1071 between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turkish forces led by Alp Arslan, resulting in the defeat of the Byzantine Empire and the capture of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes. ... The Sultanate of Rûm was a Seljuk sultanate in Anatolia from 1077 to 1307. ... Ghazi (March 21, 1912 - April 4, 1939) was king of Iraq from 1933 to 1939. ... Candaroğlu Beylik (sometimes referred to as Candar, Candaroğulları or İsfendiyaroğulları in Turkish) is an Anatolian Turkoman emirate that ruled in Kastamonu and Sinop regions and partly in Zonguldak, Samsun and Çankırı, between 1292 - 1461, in the Black Sea region of modern day Turkey. ... Flag of Karaman according to the Catalan Atlas c. ...

The Turks who remained pastoral nomad kings in eastern Anatolia and Iran however, continued to use their clan tamghas, and in fact they became high-strung nationalistic imagery. The Ak Koyunlu put their tamgha on their flags and stamped their coinage with it. Ironically the conquest of the Ak Koyunlu by the Ottoman Empire was a sort of Manzikert II, as the Ottomans had thrown away virtually all of their traditions and had become thouroughly Byzantine in their institutions. By the 16th century the divide was so great that the pastoral and settled Turks only barely shared a language. Flag of the Ak Koyunlu (Colours are speculative) The Akkoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (Azeri-Turkish: Ağqoyunlular/Akkoyunlular) were a Turkoman tribal federation that ruled present-day Azerbaijan, eastern Anatolia, northern Iraq and western Iran from 1378 to 1508. ... Flag of the Ak Koyunlu (Colours are speculative) The Akkoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (Azeri-Turkish: Ağqoyunlular/Akkoyunlular) were a Turkoman tribal federation that ruled present-day Azerbaijan, eastern Anatolia, northern Iraq and western Iran from 1378 to 1508. ... Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...

For those Turks who never left their homeland of Turkestan in the first place, it remained, and still is, what it was originally: A cattle brand and clan identifier. Map of Turkestan (green) with borders of modern states in white Turkestan (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. ...