19. yüzyıl seyyahlarına göre Türkmenistan tarihi
Özet
There is important role of book of travel for written Turkmenistan's history. Books of travel has important role for written Turkmenistan's history. Travellers give us detailed knowledge about this area. These knowledges are mainly about their social, cultural and economical situation. Turkmens, who live the west of the country not establish a new and powerfull government after Seljuks. The main point of this is that, Turkmens are permanently migrate toward to the west. The powerfull tribes such as Teke, Yomut, Çavdur and Goklen are permanently struggle with Hive Sovereignty and Persian goverment. The result of their migrations, they established Karakoyunlu, Akkoyunlu, Seljuk and Ottoman's goverments. Turkmens, who get used to live freedomly struggle with Russian's occupation successfully in 19 century. The semi-nomad life style gave shape their social and political positions. Turkmens generally live on stock-breeding. They make clothes by the animal's skin. Some regions, they are good at agriculture. The semi-nomad Turkmen are conservative against the other cultures. Thus, they protect their own customs along the centuries. They can ride a horse and they can fight very well. Because of their being good fighters, they get a big pie by the trade of the slave. They hiring the Russian, Persian and Afghanistan's slaves to Hive and Buhara. The immigrant Turkmen don't change their culture and their tribes' names. Nowadays they have a government called Turkmenistan.